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The Ways of Fiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

The Ways of Fiction

The essays gathered here capture fresh perspectives on the literary environments of the eighteenth century. The core concern of this volume is culture – the ways in which it shapes literature and is in turn influenced by it: the “ways” of fiction. Especially commissioned from experts in the field, essays cover the whole of the century, embracing such themes as class, gender, nationhood, politics, and identity. Through scrutiny of familiar and less well-known authors alike, the collection forms a stimulating and provocative anthology. It will naturally appeal to scholars and students of the novel, as well as to historians of culture, and all those concerned with eighteenth-century studies. A broader readership will also find much here to enhance their appreciation of fiction as a cultural artefact. Responding to a growing fascination with this period in British history, these essays open vital new perspectives on the novel at a key moment in its development.

Culture Collide: Travel with Purpose
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 132

Culture Collide: Travel with Purpose

Travel With Purpose is a collection of stories from the road, travel tips, and ephemera from our favorite artists all over the globe. This is a travel guide like no other. Inside our premier issue bands such as Twin Shadow, El Perro Del Mar, The Black Lips, Angel Olsen, Chromeo, and Man Man (we're dying to share this one) clue you in on hidden gems and tried-and-trues in their own 'hoods. Gain insight into the hottest destinations (Seoul, Korea; Reykjavik, Iceland; Calgary, Canada) from a music perspective. See the world — and hear its sounds. CultureCollide.com

The Golden Thread
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

The Golden Thread

This two-volume edited collection covers three hundred years of Irish women's playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and practitioners. Volume One looks at the period from 1716 to 1992, exploring such varied themes as the impact of space and place on identity, women's strategic use of genre, and theatrical responses to shifts in Irish politics and culture.

Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-02-07
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the eighteenth-century. The contributors address issues such as subjectivity, performance, voice, narrative time, character development and genre, placing their readings of early modern prose texts within the diachronic frame of the overall topic. Individual chapters will treat texts from a variety of genres, offering analyses of individual texts in the context of changes and developments within literary forms. The book in its entirety will cover a period of approximately 350 years, from 1370 to 1720.

Women Novelists Before Jane Austen
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Women Novelists Before Jane Austen

By the time Ian Watt published The Rise of the Novel. in 1957, it was clear that many women novelists before Jane Austen had been overlooked in critical studies of literature and that some of them had been completely forgotten by the reading public. In this book, Brian Corman explores the question of how and why this came about. Corman provides a systematic survey of the reputations of early women novelists as canons of the novel developed over a period of roughly two hundred years, and, in so doing, suggests reasons for their frequent exclusion. Women Novelists before Jane Austen challenges the view that exclusion from the canon was a simple function of gender and goes deeper to examine pot...

The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-century Satire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 744

The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-century Satire

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This handbook is a guide to the kinds of satire written in English during the 'long' eighteenth century and it focuses on texts that appeared between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789.

Spa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Spa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800

This edited collection aims at highlighting the various uses of water in sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth-century England, while exploring the tensions between those who praised the curative virtues of waters and those who rejected them for their supposedly harmful effects. Divided into three balanced sections, the collection includes contributions from renowned specialists of early modern culture and literature as well as rising young scholars as it seeks to establish a dialogue between different methodologies, and explain why the spa-related issues examined still resonate in today’s society.

Imagining War and Peace in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1690–1820
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 315

Imagining War and Peace in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1690–1820

Is war the opposite of peace, or its necessary accomplice? Exploring this question in relation to eighteenth-century Britain, Andrew Lincoln opens up complex, paradoxical and enduring issues and shows how ideas and methods were developed to provide the British public with moral insulation from violence both overseas and at home.

The Global Indies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

The Global Indies

A study of British imperialism's imaginative geography, exploring the pairing of India and the Atlantic world from literature to colonial policy In this lively book, Ashley Cohen weaves a complex portrait of the imaginative geography of British imperialism. Contrary to most current scholarship, eighteenth-century Britons saw the empire not as separate Atlantic and Indian spheres but as an interconnected whole: the Indies. Crisscrossing the hemispheres, Cohen traces global histories of race, slavery, and class, from Boston to Bengal. She also reveals the empire to be pervasively present at home, in metropolitan scenes of fashionable sociability. Close-reading a mixed archive of plays, poems, travel narratives, parliamentary speeches, political pamphlets, visual satires, paintings, memoirs, manuscript letters, and diaries, Cohen reveals how the pairing of the two Indies in discourse helped produce colonial policies that linked them in practice. Combining the methods of literary studies and new imperial history, Cohen demonstrates how the imaginative geography of the Indies shaped the culture of British imperialism, which in turn changed the shape of the world.

Double Falsehood
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 462

Double Falsehood

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-03-01
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Plays, playscripts.