Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A Collection of Letters, Extracted from the Most Celebrated French Authors
Author: William Gilpin’s Letter-Writer
Author: Alain KerhervéPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443868019
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Among the numerous letter-writing manuals which were printed in eighteenth-century Britain, a few were authored by such famous novelists as Samuel Richardson or Daniel Defoe. The present volume is a first-time edition of an autograph manual devised by William Gilpin, commonly known as one of the theoreticians of the picturesque, which he intended either for individual use in the schools he was teaching or for publication. The manual was exclusively devised for boys and men. Although its primary purpose was to provide models of letters on various occasions (at school, in apprenticeship, in debts, in mourning), its content is also partly fictional, since several groups of letters provide short stories about the lives of young soldiers writing home, reformed rakes making a fortune in India or fathers trying to correct their sons’ misdemeanours. The whole tone is highly moral, since the manual was also conceived as a work of edification. As such, it is an excellent counterpart to the correspondence which William Gilpin exchanged with his grandson, William Writes to William: The Correspondence of William Gilpin (1724–1804) and his Grandson William (1789–1811) (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014). The manual is presented with an introduction, notes, index and appendix of a list of eighteenth-century letter-writing manuals, focusing on the issues of sources, society and epistolary writing.
French Works in English Translation
Author: J A R SéguinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Correspondent; a Selection of Letters, from the Best Authors; Together with Some Originals, Adapted to All the Periods and Occasions of Life, Etc
Author: The Monthly Catalogue, 1714-1717
Author: The Academy
Author: Academy and Literature
Author: Charles Edward Cutts Birch AppletonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
Junius: Including Letters by the Same Writer Under Other Signatures ... with New Evidence as to the Authorship, and Extracts from an Analysis by Sir Harris Nicolas
Author: JuniusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
The New Student's Reference Work for Teachers, Students and Families: KRU-PLE
Author: Chandler Belden BeachPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description