Author: Isaac ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Isaac Reed Diaries, 1762-1804
Author: Isaac ReedThe Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789
Author: Paul BainesPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444390082
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing1660-1789 features coverage of the lives and works of almost 500 notable writers based in the British Isles from the return of the British monarchy in 1660 until the French Revolution of 1789. Broad coverage of writers and texts presents a new picture of 18th-century British authorship Takes advantage of newly expanded eighteenth-century canon to include significantly more women writers and labouring-class writers than have traditionally been studied Draws on the latest scholarship to more accurately reflect the literary achievements of the long eighteenth century
Shakespeare's Early Readers
Author: Jean-Christophe MayerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107138337
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
This is the first dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were read in the two centuries after they were produced. A close examination of rare, often unpublished material offers a reconsideration of the role of readers in the history of Shakespeare's rise to fame.
Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age
Author: Tom LockwoodPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191535796
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Tom Lockwood's study is the first examination of Jonson's place in the texts and culture of the Romantic age. Part one of the book explores theatrical, critical, and editorial responses to Jonson, including his place in the post-Garrick theatre, critical estimations of his life and work, and the politically-charged making and reception of William Gifford's 1816 edition of Jonson's Works. Part two explores allusive and imitative responses to Jonson's poetry and plays in the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and explores how Jonson serves variously as a model by which to measure the poet laureate, Robert Southey, and Coleridge's eldest son, Hartley. The introduction and conclusion locate this 'Romantic Jonson' against his eighteenth-century and Victorian re-creations. Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age shows us a varied, mobile, and contested Jonson and offers a fresh perspective on the Romantic age.
A Biographer at Work
Author: Harriet KirkleyPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838755075
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Contains an edition of unpublished notes that Johnson made as he prepared to write the text of his biographical preface to Pope, and examines how Johnson wrote what is arguably the most important preface in the larger collection.
Samuel Johnson
Author: James James Lowry CliffordPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452911564
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Shakespeare's Midwives
Author: Arthur SherboPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874134490
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"This work is a companion piece to Arthur Sherbo's Birth of Shakespeare Studies: Commentators from Rowe (1709) to Boswell-Malone (1821). The contributions of seven men to the commentary on the plays and poems of Shakespeare have been largely ignored or forgotten. As a result, modern editions of Shakespeare's works have claimed for themselves or for nineteenth-century editors and commentators information and insights that have been anticipated by one or another of eighteenth-century commentators. Shakespeare's Midwives brings to light these earlier commentators, adding a valuable new perspective to Shakespeare studies." "Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, and Isaac Reed are names known to all students of Shakespeare's works. They brought the commentary on the plays and poems to a point where future scholars could, for the most part, concentrate on sources and, primarily, on the text of these works. These four men were omnivorous readers; all were great book collectors. And the knowledge they had won through their wide reading in all genres and in a number of languages came to the fore as they edited, either individually or in collaboration, edition after edition of Shakespeare's plays, sometimes with the poems included. But they were not alone in their endeavors, for many of their friends and acquaintances - and even perfect strangers - responded to their public and private pleas for help." "It is with these last, the co-adjutors, that this volume is concerned. Either in direct conversation, in letters, or in the pages of the Gentleman's Magazine or some other periodical, these amateur Shakespeareans made their suggestions or voiced their objections to what they had read in one or more of the editions of Shakespeare. Sometimes they signed their names; more often they cloaked their identity. Thus, one often encounters a suggestion, embedded usually in a note by one of the editors, by "Anon."" "It is, however, identifiable amateur Shakespeareans whom Sherbo has elected to call Shakespeare's midwives. He has tried to do justice to the contributions of each of these seven men, some of whom wrote hundreds of notes on some aspect of Shakespeare's works, but of necessity only part of their contributions could be quoted or cited. Sherbo has also tried to show that a considerable number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Shakespeareans have either been ignorant of, have ignored, or have mutilated some of the notes of these men. In a number of instances, he shows that nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars have been anticipated by their eighteenth-century forerunners." "This work makes clear that claims of precedence by later scholars must be made only when the contributions of these seven men and some of their contemporaries, named or unnamed, have been examined."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Isaac Reed, Editorial Factotum
Author: Arthur SherboPublisher: English Literary Studies
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Johnsonian News Letter
Author: The London Stage, 1660-1800: 1776-1800, edited with a critical introd. by C. B. Hogan, 3. v
Author: William Van LennepPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
CONTENTS.--pt. 2. 1700-1729, edited with a critical introd. by E. L. Avery. 2 v.