Author: William HowittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary landmarks
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets
Author: William HowittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary landmarks
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets (Vol. 1&2)
Author: William HowittPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1009
Book Description
"Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by William Howitt, first published in 1847, that features the biographical accounts of the most distinguished literary figures among the British. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents._x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ Geoffrey Chaucer_x000D_ Edmund Spenser_x000D_ Shakespeare_x000D_ Abraham Cowley_x000D_ John Milton_x000D_ Samuel Butler_x000D_ John Dryden_x000D_ Joseph Addison_x000D_ John Gay_x000D_ Alexander Pope_x000D_ Dean Swift_x000D_ James Thomson_x000D_ William Shenstone_x000D_ Chatterton_x000D_ Thomas Gray_x000D_ Oliver Goldsmith_x000D_ Robert Burns_x000D_ William Cowper_x000D_ Mrs. Tighe_x000D_ John Keats_x000D_ Percy Bysshe Shelley_x000D_ Lord Byron_x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ George Crabbe_x000D_ James Hogg_x000D_ Samuel Taylor Coleridge_x000D_ Felicia Hemans_x000D_ L. E. L._x000D_ Sir Walter Scott_x000D_ Thomas Campbell_x000D_ Robert Southey_x000D_ Joanna Baillie_x000D_ William Wordsworth_x000D_ James Montgomery_x000D_ Walter Savage Landor_x000D_ Leigh Hunt_x000D_ Samuel Rogers_x000D_ Thomas Moore_x000D_ Ebenezer Elliott_x000D_ John Wilson_x000D_ Waller Bryan Procter_x000D_ Alfred Tennyson_x000D_ Concluding Remarks
Homes & Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets
Author: William HowittPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385372100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Homes and Haunts
Author: Alison BoothPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191076899
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
This is the first full-length study of literary tourism in North America as well as Britain, and a unique exploration of popular response to writers, literary house museums, and the landscapes or "countries " associated with their lives and works. An interdisciplinary study ranging from 1820-1940, Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries unites museum and tourism studies, book history, narrative theory, theories of gender, space, and things, and other approaches to depict and interpret the haunting experiences of exhibited houses and the curious history of topo-biographical writing about famous authors. In illustrated chapters that blend Victorian and recent first-person encounters that range from literary shrines and plaques to guidebooks, memoirs, portraits, and monuments, Alison Booth discusses pilgrims such as William and Mary Howitt, Anna Maria and Samuel Hall, and Elbert Hubbard, and magnetic hosts and guests as Washington Irving, Wordsworth, Martineau, Longfellow, Hawthorne, James, and Dickens. Virginia Woolf's feminist response to homes and haunts shapes a chapter on Mary Russell Mitford, Gaskell, and the Brontës, and another on the Carlyles' house and Monk's House. Booth rediscovers collections of personalities, haunted shrines, and imaginative re-enactments that have been submerged by a century of academic literary criticism.
Homes and Haunts of the British Poets
Author: William HowittLiterary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850-1914
Author: Alexis EasleyPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1644531283
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
This study examines literary celebrity in Britain from 1850 to 1914. Through lively analysis of rare cultural materials, Easley demonstrates the crucial role of the celebrity author in the formation of British national identity. As Victorians toured the homes and haunts of famous writers, they developed a sense of shared national heritage. At the same time, by reading sensational accounts of writers’ lives, they were able to reconsider conventional gender roles and domestic arrangements. As women were featured in interviews and profiles, they were increasingly associated with the ephemerality of the popular press and were often excluded from emerging narratives of British literary history, which defined great literature as having a timeless appeal. Nevertheless, women writers were able to capitalize on celebrity media as a way of furthering their own careers and retelling history on their own terms. Press attention had a more positive effect on men’s literary careers since they were expected to assume public identities; however, in some cases, media exposure had the effect of sensationalizing their lives, bodies, and careers. With the development of proto-feminist criticism and historiography, the life stories of male writers were increasingly used to expose unhealthy domestic relationships and imagine ideal forms of British masculinity. The first section of Literary Celebrity explores the practice of literary tourism in Victorian Britain, focusing specifically on the homes and haunts of Charles Dickens, Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Harriet Martineau. This investigation incorporates analysis of fascinating cultural texts, including maps, periodicals, and tourist guidebooks. Easley links the practice of literary tourism to a variety of cultural developments, including nationalism, urbanization, spiritualism, the women’s movement, and the expansion of popular print culture. The second section provides fresh insight into the ways that celebrity culture informed the development of Victorian historiography. Easley demonstrates how women were able to re-tell history from a proto-feminist perspective by writing contemporary history, participating in architectural reform movements, and becoming active in literary societies. In this chapter she returns to the work of Harriet Martineau and introduces a variety of lesser-known contributors to the field, including Mary Gillies and Mary Ward. Literary Celebrity concludes with a third section focused on the expansion of celebrity media at the fin de siècle. These chapters and a brief coda link the popularization of celebrity news to the de-canonization of women writers, the professionalization of medicine, the development of the open space movement, and the institutionalization of English studies. These investigations elucidate the role of celebrity media in the careers of Charlotte Robinson, Marie Corelli, Mary Braddon, Harriet Martineau, Thomas Carlyle, Ernest Hart, and Octavia Hill. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Harper & Brothers' List of Publications
Author: Harper & BrothersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers and publishing
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Homes and Haunts of the British Poets
Author: William HowittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
The Living Age
Author: Women's Life Writing and Imagined Communities
Author: Cynthia Anne HuffPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415372206
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Recognising the great legacy of women's life writings, this book draws on a wealth of sources to critically examine the impact of these writings on our communities.