Author: Elizabeth Singer Rowe
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Languages : en
Pages : 284
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The Poetical Beauties of the Pious and Ingenious Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe. Among which is Introduced, The History of Joseph, in Ten Books. And to this Edition is Prefix'd, a Short, But Comprehensive Account of the Life and Writings of the Author: Also Some Elegies on Her Death, by the Most Eminent Hands
Author: Elizabeth Singer Rowe
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Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Curiosities of Literature
Author: Isaac Disraeli
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760
Author: Myra Reynolds
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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The Lives of the English Poets
The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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The Routledge History of Literature in English
Author: Ronald Carter
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415243179
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415243179
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850
Author: Devoney Looser
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801887054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801887054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
Brief History of English and American Literature
Author: Henry Augustin Beers
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notices
Author: Samuel Kettell
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Publisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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