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Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Young Lady's Pocket Library, Or Parental Monitor: Containing, I. Dr. Gregory's Father's Legacy to His Daughters. ... IV. Moore's Fables for the Female Sex
Author: The Young Lady's Pocket Library, Or Parental Monitor; Containing, I. Dr. Gregory's Father's Legacy to His Daughters. II. Lady Pennington's Unfortunate Mother's Advice to Her Daugthers. III. Marchioness de Lambert's Advice of a Mother to Her Daughter. IV. Moore's Fables for the Female Sex
Author: LadyThe Young Lady's Pocket Library, Or Parental Monitor: Containing, I. Dr. Gregory's Father's Legacy to His Daughters. II. Lady Pennington's Unfortunate Mother's Advice to Her Daughters. III. Marchioness de Lambert's Advice of a Mother to Her Daughter. IV. Moore's Fables for the Female Sex
Author: The Feminization of Fame 1750-1830
Author: C. BrockPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230286453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This book addresses the literary, cultural and historical questions surrounding the reconceptualization of fame between 1750-1830. It examines genres from history writing to literature, public and private memoirs to political treatises in English and in French in order to explore 'The age of personality's' obsession with instantaneous publicity.
Touch, Sexuality, and Hands in British Literature, 1740–1901
Author: Kimberly CoxPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000431991
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
From Robert Lovelace’s uninvited hand-grasps in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa to to Basil Hallward’s first encounter with Dorian Gray, literary depictions of touching hands in British literature from the 1740s to the 1890s communicate emotional dimensions of sexual experience that reflect shifting cultural norms associated with gender roles, sexuality, and sexual expression. But what is the relationship between hands, tactility, and sexuality in Victorian literature? And how do we best interpret what those touches communicate between characters? This volume addresses these questions by asserting a connection between the prevalence of violent, sexually charged touches in eighteenth-century novels such as those by Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, and Frances Burney and growing public concern over handshake etiquette in the nineteenth century evident in works by Jane Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, and Flora Annie Steel. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines literary analysis with close analyses of paintings, musical compositions, and nonfictional texts, such as etiquette books and scientific treatises, to make a case for the significance of tactility to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century perceptions of selfhood and sexuality. In doing so, it draws attention to the communicative nature of skin-to-skin contact as represented in literature and traces a trajectory of meaning from the forceful grips that violate female characters in eighteenth-century novels to the consensual embraces common in Victorian and neo-Victorian literature.
The Comet Sweeper (Icon Science)
Author: Claire BrockPublisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1785781677
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brother William, then Astronomer Royal. Soon making scientific discoveries in her own right, she swept to international scientific and popular fame. She was awarded a salary by George III in 1787 – the first woman in Britain to make her living from science. But, as a woman in a male-dominated world, Herschel's great success was achieved despite constant frustration of her ambitions. Drawing on original sources – including Herschel's diaries and her fiery letters – Claire Brock tells the story of a woman determined to win independence and satisfy her astronomical ambition.
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