Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Birmingham Counterfeit; Or, Invisible Spectator
Author: The Birmingham Quean
Author: S. A. M. TrainorPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0953832821
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
We are to believe there was a time when The Birmingham Quean was just a poem: a mock-epic burlesque in which a fake pound coin told how she was won in a game of darts by a drag-queen called Britannia Spears. It parodied Pope ́s The Rape of the Lock, Byron ́s Don Juan and an anonymous eighteenth century novel, The Birmingham Counterfeit. The transformation of this bit of picaresque doggerel into the sprawling work barely contained by this cover is the central mystery of a ludic novel. It mirrors the unlikely story of a dirty little settlement of nailers and cutlers becoming the principle city of the Industrial Revolution by flooding the Restoration economy with counterfeit coins. What remains is an absurd scholarly edition of a poem recast as a futuristic dystopia in which nothing is authentic. It is also the tale of an impossible love affair that uncovers an impossible text by an impossible author. It is as strange, ironic, sombre, flashy and anarchic as the city to which it owes its existence.
A Catalogue of the Birmingham Collection
Author: Birmingham Public LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birmingham (Ala.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
Monthly Review
Author: George Edward GriffithsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The Birmingham Counterfeit
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The Secret Life of Things
Author: Mark BlackwellPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838756669
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This collection enriches and complicates the history of prose fiction between Richardson and Fielding at mid-century and Austen at the turn of the century by focusing on it-narratives, a once popular form largely forgotten by readers and critics alike. The volume also advances important work on eighteenth-century consumer culture and the theory of things. The essays that comprise The Secret Life of Things thus bring new texts, and new ways of thinking about familiar ones, to our notice. Those essays range from the role of it-narratives in period debates about copyright to their complex relationship with object-riddled sentimental fictions, from anti-semitism in Chrysal to jingoistic imperialism in The Adventures of a Rupee, from the it-narrative as a variety of whore's biography to a consideration of its contributions to an emergent middle-class ideology.
THE MONTHY REVIEW
Author: R. GriffithsAuction catalogues of books
Author: Puttick and Simpson (messrs.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
The Cambridge History of the English Novel
Author: Robert L. CaserioPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316175103
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
The Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles an ever-changing and developing body of fiction across three centuries. An interwoven narrative of the novel's progress unfolds in more than fifty chapters, charting continuities and innovations of structure, tracing lines of influence in terms of themes and techniques, and showing how greater and lesser authors shape the genre. Pushing beyond the usual period-centered boundaries, the History's emphasis on form reveals the range and depth the novel has achieved in English. This book will be indispensable for research libraries and scholars, but is accessibly written for students. Authoritative, bold and clear, the History raises multiple useful questions for future visions of the invention and re-invention of the novel.
Author: Ralph Griffiths