Author: David C. SuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J
Author: David C. SuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850
Author: Devoney LooserPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801887054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
The Sphere
Author: Arthur Young's Travels in France
Author: Arthur YoungPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Historical Essays & Studies
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron ActonPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Letters and Social Aims
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonOn Civil Liberty and Self-government
Author: Francis LieberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History
Author: Association of American Law SchoolsPublisher:
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Category : Common law
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
The Times Index
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Times (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 1768
Book Description
Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Times educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement.