Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror
Author: Kaleidoscope, Or, Literary and Scientific Mirror
Author: Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England
Author: Jennifer BattPublisher:
ISBN: 019885966X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This book explores the complex and contested relationships that existed between class, patronage, and poetry in Hanoverian England by examining the life and work of Stephen Duck, the 'famous threshing poet'. Duck's remarkable story reveals the tolerances, and intolerances, of the Hanoverian social order.
Lord Byron's Cain
Author: Truman Guy SteffanPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477305114
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Cain has been ranked as one of the two best dramatic poems written in England in the nineteenth century. Because of its religious heterodoxy, which veiled a political iconoclasm, and also because of Byron’s notoriety, Cain stirred up a storm among Tories and clergymen “from Kentish town to Pisa.” From 1821 to 1830 more was printed about its eighteen hundred alarming lines than about the twenty thousand of Don Juan. One solemn Frenchman even translated the work in order to supply his countrymen with a text that he could then rewrite and confute. After the initial controversy, readers began to regard Cain not merely as revolutionary propaganda but as a fictional portrait of common youthful experience: a sequence of aspiration, discontent, uncertainty, confusion, misunderstood isolation, fear, frustration, anger, and finally a rash, inevitable, but futile revolt that led to a future of hopeless regret. Truman Guy Steffan here presents a text, arrived at by collation of the first and several later editions with the original manuscript (presently in the Stark Collection of the Miriam Lutcher Stark Library at the Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin). The first eight essays, which comprise Part I, cover a number of literary topics: Byron’s defense of his purposes in Cain and the relevance of his dramatic theory to the poem; the characterization that is an ideological confrontation, a revelation of personal conflict, as well as a rendering of individuals who have an existence independent of the author; the principles that controlled Byron’s absorption and expansion of biblical materials; the integration of the imagery with the dramatic substance; the incongruities of the language; the metrical heterodoxy; and a description of the manuscript and of Byron’s insertions. Part II contains the text of Cain, accompanied by notes on the variants, the manuscript cancellations and additions, certain linguistic details, and the scansion of some unusual verses. Then follow annotations on allusions, sources, and analogues, and on a few passages of the play that have elicited unusual conflict over interpretation. Part III provides a history of Cain criticism, from the opinions of Byron’s social and literary circle and of the major periodicals and pamphlets to the more complicated contribution of the twentieth century. This important work stands not only as a valuable addition to Byron scholarship but also as an illuminating record of the changing critical and cultural attitudes from the early nineteenth century to the 1960s. Steffan has done a remarkable job in bringing together and synthesizing an enormous body of material.
James Hogg and British Romanticism
Author: Meiko O'HalloranPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137559055
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This study argues for Hogg's centrality to British Romanticism, resituating his work in relation to many of his more famous Romantic contemporaries. Hogg creates a unique literary style which, the author argues, is best described as 'kaleidoscopic' in view of its similarities with David Brewster's kaleidoscope, invented in 1816.
Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel
Author: Olivia FergusonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009274260
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
A counter-intuitive history of literary caricature, exploring how caricature helped make the realist novel in the Romantic period.
The Stranger in Liverpool; or, an historical and descriptive view of Liverpool and its environs
Author: Catalogue of Mayer Free Library, Bebington. Established January 1st, 1866. Lending Department. Miles Pilling Elsby, Honorary Librarian
Author: Mayer Free Library (Bebington, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Pointed Encounters
Author: Anne McKee StapletonPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401211116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Pointed Encounters establishes the literary significance of representations of dance in poetry, song, dance manuals, and fiction written between 1750 and 1830. Presenting original readings of canonical texts and fresh readings of neglected but significant literary works, this book traces the complicated role of social dancing in Scottish culture and identifies the hitherto unexplored motif of dance as an outwardly conforming, yet covertly subversive, expression of Scottish identity during the period. The volume draws upon diverse yet mutually revealing texts, from traditional dance and music to Sir Walter Scott and contemporary Scottish women novelists, to offer students and scholars of Scottish and English literature a fresh insight into the socio-cultural context of the British state after 1746.
Charlotte de La Trémoïlle, the Notorious Countess of Derby
Author: Sandy RileyPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527507017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A Parliamentarian described his feelings towards Charlotte de La Trémoïlle when he wrote in the journal the Parliamentary Scout “three women ruined the Kingdom Eve, The Queen and the Countess of Derby”. This historical biography uses the letters found in the Chateau at Thouars and preserved in the French National Archive in Paris to piece together an account of her ideas and actions. Eyewitness writings are used to describe her activities during the siege by Parliamentary forces of the Royalist Lathom House. Following the end of the siege, she was exiled to the Isle of Man. A Huguenot, Charlotte lived at a time of religious and political upheaval in both France and England. She was related by birth and marriage to European royalty and aristocracy. She was the only woman sequestered by the Parliament of Oliver Cromwell and King Charles II promised her the position of Governess to his children.