Author: Thomas Percy
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111631176
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: Mengmeng Yan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000572765
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 155

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In inviting a rethinking of ideas of foreignness and selfhood, this book explores Sino-British encounters in eighteenth-century English literature, providing detailed critical and literary analysis of individual texts pertaining to China from this period. The author provides a synthesis of approaches to China in eighteenth-century English literature, involving fictional writing related to China, adaptations of Chinese source texts, and translations of Chinese literary works. By discussing various writings about tea and tea-drinking, Arthur Murphy’s The Orphan of China (1759), Oliver Goldsmith’s The Citizen of the World (1760–62), and Thomas Percy’s Hau Kiou Choaan (1761), she highlights the significance of reading these texts not simply as documents of a historical kind, but as texts that are worthy of literary and artistic attention on the basis of their rich variety in genre, style, and themes. The author proposes that Chinese and British cultures are not antithetical entities: they exist in relation to one another and create possibilities in the continuing appreciation of diversity amidst a drive to universality. This study will be primarily helpful to university students and professors of English literature, comparative literature, and history worldwide.

Author: James Edward Tobin
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819601889
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Author: Thomas Percy
Publisher:
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Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Author: Thomas Percy
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 810

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Author: Jean Marie O'Meara
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 626

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Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 072012283X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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This volume, the third in the series, discusses the works of 11 British 18th-century writers, providing information on the nature of the MS, date, variant title(s), state of completion, provenance and location, date and first form of publication, any scholarly use of the MS, and the existence of any published facsimiles. Information is drawn from material in libraries, record offices and private collections throughout the world. The listing of each author's manuscripts is preceded by an introduction. The book records many hitherto unrecorded manuscripts.

Author: Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt
Publisher: New York, Amer.-Scandinavian Foundation
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Author: Roger Lonsdale
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191515876
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 2220

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Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'. Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson's last literary project is also one of his most readable and entertaining, written with characteristic eloquence and conviction, and at times with combative trenchancy. Johnson's fifty-two biographies constitute a detailed survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to his own time, with extended discussions of Cowley, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Addison, Prior, Swift, Pope, and Gray. The Lives also include Johnson's memorable biography of the enigmatic Richard Savage (1744), the friend of his own early years in London. Roger Lonsdale's Introduction describes the origins, composition, and textual history of the Lives, and assesses Johnson's assumptions and aims as biographer and critic. The commentary provides a detailed literary and historical context, investigating Johnson's sources, relating the Lives to his own earlier writings and conversation, and to the critical opinions of his contemporaries, as well as illustrating their early reception. This is the first scholarly edition since George Birkbeck Hill's three-volume Oxford edition (1905). This is volume two of four.

Author: Steven H. Gale
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780824059903
Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 690

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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.