Author: Wetenhall WilkesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A Letter of Genteel and Moral Advice to a Young Lady: Being a System of Rules and Informations ; Digested Into a New and Familiar Method, to Qualify the Fair Sex to be Useful, and Happy in Every Scene of Life. By the Revd Mr. Wetenhall Wilkes .. The Fifth Edition. Carefully Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged, by the Author
Author: Wetenhall WilkesA Letter of Genteel and Moral Advice to a Young Lady
Author: Wetenhall WilkesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A Letter of Genteel and Moral Advice to a Young Lady ... The sixth edition ... Revised, corrected, and enlarged, etc
Author: Wetenhall WILKESThe Crisis of Courtesy
Author: Jacques CarréPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004100053
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
"The Crisis of Courtesy" explores the metamorphosis of British courtesy-literature from the 17th to the 19th centuries. It shows how the preoccupation with conduct provided the subject-matter of such diverse literary forms as poetry, the essay and the novel.
Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and the Gentleman's Liberation Movement
Author: Megan A. WoodworthPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317145429
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In the late eighteenth-century English novel, the question of feminism has usually been explored with respect to how women writers treat their heroines and how they engage with contemporary political debates, particularly those relating to the French Revolution. Megan Woodworth argues that women writers' ideas about their own liberty are also present in their treatment of male characters. In positing a 'Gentleman's Liberation Movement,' she suggests that Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen all used their creative powers to liberate men from the very institutions and ideas about power, society, and gender that promote the subjection of women. Their writing juxtaposes the role of women in the private spheres with men's engagement in political structures and successive wars for independence (the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars). The failures associated with fighting these wars and the ideological debates surrounding them made plain, at least to these women writers, that in denying the universality of these natural freedoms, their liberating effects would be severely compromised. Thus, to win the same rights for which men fought, women writers sought to remake men as individuals freed from the tyranny of their patriarchal inheritance.
Fictions of Modesty
Author: Ruth Bernard YeazellPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226950969
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Combining evidence from conduct books and ladies' magazines with the arguments of influential theorists like Hume, Rousseau, and Wollstonecraft, this book begins by asking why writers were devoted to the anxious remaking of women's "nature" and to codifying rules for their porper behavior. Fictions of Modesty shows how the culture at once tried to regulate young women's desires and effectively opened up new possibilities of subjectivity and individual choice. Yeazell goes on to demonstrate that modest delaying actions inform a central tradition of English narrative. On the Continent, the English believed, the jeune fille went from the artificial innocence of the convent to an arranged marriage and adultery; the natural modesty of the Englishwoman, however, enabled her to choose her own mate and to marry both prudently and with affection. Rather than taking its narrative impetus from adultery, then, English fiction concentrated on courtship and the consciousness of the young woman choosing. After paired studies of Richardson's Pamela and Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (even Fanny Hill, Yeazell argues, is a modest English heroine at heart), Yeazell investigates what women novelists made of the virtues of modesty in works by Burney, Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Gaskell.
A letter of genteel and moral advice to a young lady. In which is digested, into a new and familiar method, a system of rules, and informations, to qualify the fair sex to be useful and happy in every state ... The third edition
Author: Wetenhall WILKESThe Cambridge Companion to Byron
Author: Drummond BonePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108957102
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Deeply informed and appealingly written, this revised and updated second edition gives fresh life to the enthralling sexual, poetic and political contradictions that make Byron the first literary celebrity. An authoritative source for students, this companion also points to emerging new areas of research.
Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800
Author: Vivien JonesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521586801
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This book, first published in 2000, is an authoritative volume of new essays on women's writing and reading in the eighteenth century.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description