Author: Vicesimus KnoxPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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The Works of Vicesimus Knox, D.D.
Author: Vicesimus KnoxThe works of Vicesimus Knox
Author: Vicesimus KnoxThe Works of Vicesimus Knox, D.D.
Author: Vicesimus KnoxCatalogue of the Library of the Late Joseph J. Cooke, of Providence, Rhode Island ... The Whole to be Sold by Auction ...
Author: Joseph Jesse CookePublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel
Author: Ann Jessie van SantPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521604581
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This study of sensibility in the eighteenth-century English novel discusses literary representations of suffering and responses to it in the social and scientific context of the period. The reader of novels shares with more scientific observers the activity of gazing on suffering, leading Ann Van Sant to explore the coincidence between the rhetoric of pathos and scientific presentation as they were applied to repentant prostitutes and children of the vagrant and criminal poor. The book goes on to explore the novel's location of psychological responses to suffering in physical forms. Van Sant invokes eighteenth-century debates about the relative status of sight and touch in epistemology and psychology, as a context for discussing the 'man of feeling' (notably in Sterne's A Sentimental Journey) - a spectator who registers his sensibility by physical means.
The Works of William Cowper
Author: William CowperPublisher:
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Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Object Lessons
Author: Sarah Anne CarterPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019022505X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World examines the ways material things--objects and pictures--were used to reason about issues of morality, race, citizenship, and capitalism, as well as reality and representation, in the nineteenth-century United States. For modern scholars, an "object lesson" is simply a timeworn metaphor used to describe any sort of reasoning from concrete to abstract. But in the 1860s, object lessons were classroom exercises popular across the country. Object lessons helped children to learn about the world through their senses--touching and seeing rather than memorizing and repeating--leading to new modes of classifying and comprehending material evidence drawn from the close study of objects, pictures, and even people. In this book, Sarah Carter argues that object lessons taught Americans how to find and comprehend the information in things--from a type-metal fragment to a whalebone sample. Featuring over fifty images and a full-color insert, this book offers the object lesson as a new tool for contemporary scholars to interpret the meanings of nineteenth-century material, cultural, and intellectual life.
The Catechist's Manual and Family Lecturer
Author: Samuel HindsThe Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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