Author: Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, LondonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Catalogue of Autographs, Etc
Author: Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, LondonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt and Charles Ollier in the Winter of 1853-54
Author: Leigh HuntPublisher:
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Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822
Author: Carl H. Pforzheimer LibraryPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Author: Dante Gabriel RossettiPublisher: Samfundslitteratur
ISBN: 9781843840312
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
British Romanticism and Prison Reform
Author: Jonas CopePublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1684485371
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
In eighteenth-century Britain, criminals were routinely whipped, branded, hanged, or transported to America. Only in the last quarter of the century—with the War of American Independence and legal and sociopolitical challenges to capital punishment—did the criminal justice system change, resulting in the reformed prison, or penitentiary, meant to educate, rehabilitate, and spiritualize even hardened felons. This volume is the first to explore the relationship between historical penal reform and Romantic-era literary texts by luminaries such as Godwin, Keats, Byron, and Austen. The works examined here treat incarceration as ambiguous: prison walls oppress and reinforce the arbitrary power of legal structures but can also heighten meditation, intensify the imagination, and awaken the conscience. Jonas Cope skillfully traces the important ideological work these texts attempt: to reconcile a culture devoted to freedom with the birth of the modern prison system that presents punishment as a form of rehabilitation. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J
Author: David C. SuttonPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822
Author: Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His CirclePublisher:
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: "A part of the elect."
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1980-c1988.
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Index of Manuscripts in the British Library
Author: British Library. Department of ManuscriptsPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Young Romantics
Author: Daisy HayPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408818124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
'A most impressive achievement' Michael Holroyd 'Enthralling' Sunday Times 'Masterly' Telegraph _______________________ 'The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn' - John Keats In Young Romantics Daisy Hay shatters the myth of the Romantic poet as a solitary, introspective genius, telling the story of the communal existence of an astonishingly youthful circle. The fiery, generous spirit of Leigh Hunt, radical journalist and editor of The Examiner, took centre stage. He bound together the restless Shelley and his brilliant wife Mary, author of Frankenstein; Mary's feisty step-sister Claire Clairmont, who became Byron's lover and the mother of his child; and Hunt's charismatic sister-in-law Elizabeth Kent. With authority, sparkling prose and constant insight Daisy Hay describes their travels in France, Switzerland and Italy, their artistic triumphs, their headstrong ways, their grievous losses and their devastating tragedies. Young Romantics explores the history of the group, from its inception in Leigh Hunt's prison cell in 1813 to its ultimate disintegration in the years following 1822. It encompasses tales of love, betrayal, sacrifice and friendship, all of which were played out against a background of political turbulence and intense literary creativity. This smouldering turmoil of strained relationships and insular friendships would ferment to inspire the drama of Frankenstein, the heady idealism of Shelley's poetry, and Byron's own self-loathing, self-loving public persona. Above all the characters are rendered on the page with marvellous vitality, and this is a gloriously entrancing and revelatory read, the debut of a young biographer of the highest calibre and enormous promise.