Author: Thomas SPRAT (Bishop of Rochester.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
An account of the Life and Writings of Mr. Abraham Cowley, etc
Author: Thomas SPRAT (Bishop of Rochester.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
An Account of the Life and Writings of Mr. Abraham Cowley Written to Mr. M. Clifford
Author: Thomas SpratThe Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...
Author: Abraham CowleyPreface. Contents of volume the first. An account of the life and writings of Mr. Abraham Cowley, written to Mr. Clifford. Elegia dedicatoria ad illustrissimam academiam cantabrigiensem. The author's preface t his edition in folio, 1656. The author's preface to The cutter of Coleman-Street. Poems of Mr. A. Cowley. A proposition for the advancement of experimental philosophy
Author: Abraham CowleyThe Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley. In Three Volumes, Etc
Author: Abraham CowleyThe Poetical Works of Abraham Cowley
Author: Abraham CowleyA Journey Round the Library of a Bibliomaniac
Author: William DavisPublisher:
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Category : Bibliomania
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
A Second Journey round the Library of a Bibliomaniac; or, Cento of notes and reminiscences concerning rare, curious, and valuable books
Author: William DavisPublisher:
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Category : Curiosa
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
English Writings
Author: Abraham CowleyThe Secret History of Domesticity
Author: Michael McKeonPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801885402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
Taking English culture as its representative sample, The Secret History of Domesticity asks how the modern notion of the public-private relation emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treating that relation as a crucial instance of the modern division of knowledge, Michael McKeon narrates its pre-history along with that of its essential component, domesticity. This narrative draws upon the entire spectrum of English people's experience. At the most "public" extreme are political developments like the formation of civil society over against the state, the rise of contractual thinking, and the devolution of absolutism from monarch to individual Subject. The middle range of experience takes in the influence of Protestant and scientific thought, the printed publication of the private, the conceptualization of virtual publics -- society, public opinion, the market -- and the capitalization of production, the decline of the domestic economy, and the increase in the sexual division of labor. The most "private" pole of experience involves the privatization of marriage, the family, and the household, and the complex entanglement of femininity, interiority, Subjectivity, and sexuality. McKeon accounts for how the relationship between public and private experience first became intelligible as a variable interaction of distinct modes of being -- not a static dichotomy, but a tool to think with. Richly illustrated with nearly 100 images, including paintings, engravings, woodcuts, and a representative selection of architectural floor plans for domestic interiors, this volume reads graphic forms to emphasize how susceptible the public-private relation was to concrete and spatial representation. McKeon is similarly attentive to how literary forms evoked a tangible sense of public-private relations -- among them figurative imagery, allegorical narration, parody, the author-character-reader dialectic, aesthetic distance, and free indirect discourse. He also finds a structural analogue for the emergence of the modern public-private relation in the conjunction of what contemporaries called the "secret history" and the domestic novel. A capacious and synthetic historical investigation, The Secret History of Domesticity exemplifies how the methods of literary interpretation and historical analysis can inform and enrich one another.