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  1. Urban rehearsals and novel plots in the early American city
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    ÚRban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City sheds new light on the literature of the early US by exploring how literature, theatre, architecture, and images worked together to allow readers to imagine themselves as urbanites even... more

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    ÚRban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City sheds new light on the literature of the early US by exploring how literature, theatre, architecture, and images worked together to allow readers to imagine themselves as urbanites even before cities developed. In the four decades following the Revolutionary War, the new nation was a loose network of nascent cities connected by print. Before a national culture could develop, local city cultures took shape; literary texts played key roles in helping new Americans become city people. Drawing on extensive archival research, Urban Rehearsals argues that literature, particularly novels and plays, allowed Bostonians to navigate the transition from colonial town to post-revolution city, enabled Philadelphians to grieve their experiences of the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic and rebuild in the epidemic's aftermath, and showed New Yorkers how the domestic practices that reinforced their urbanity could be opened to the broader public. Throughout, attention to underrepresented voices and texts calls attention to the possibilities for women, immigrants, and Black Americans in developing urban spaces, while showing how those possibilities would be foreclosed as the nation developed. Balancing attention to canonical texts of the early Republic, including The Power of Sympathy, Charlotte Temple, and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, with novels whose depiction of early cities deserves greater attention, such as Ormond, The Boarding-School, Monima, and Kelroy, this volume shows how US cities developed on the pages and stages of the early Republic, building urban imaginations that would construct the nation's early cities."--

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780192846211
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Literatur; Stadtleben <Motiv>; Stadtentwicklung
    Other subjects: American literature / 18th century / History and criticism; American literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Cities and towns in literature; City and town life in literature; Littérature américaine / 18e siècle / Histoire et critique; Littérature américaine / 19e siècle / Histoire et critique; Vie urbaine dans la littérature; American literature; Cities and towns in literature; City and town life in literature; 1700-1799; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: viii, 263 Seiten, Illustrationen, Karten, 24 cm
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    Introduction: The city before the city -- Part One. The protocity: imagining the US city in the eighteenth century -- Prologue. Open house in New York: The contrast -- Drama uncloseted in Boston: The Power of sympathy -- Philadelphia's fevered readers: Charlotte Temple -- Getting around the protocity: The coquette and The boarding school -- Part Two. The liminal city: literary Philadelphia, 1800-1812 -- Entr'acte: framing urban spaces -- Urban illuminations in Ormond -- Obliged to wander: Dorval and Monima -- Kelroy's shifting city -- Finale: the future city, Franklin, and The female marine

  2. La subversión barroca o De la pintura de castas
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Ags., México ; UACM, Ciudad de México

    The construction of memory is not static but rather in movement, in such a way that the Casta Paintings can exemplify a changing reality at the same time that we observe the transformations in the way of understanding them. At present, these secular... more

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    The construction of memory is not static but rather in movement, in such a way that the Casta Paintings can exemplify a changing reality at the same time that we observe the transformations in the way of understanding them. At present, these secular paintings begin to acquire relevance to the point of representing the "ultra-baroque" or the late baroque, a kind of irony that, as William Taylor suggested, is part of the rebellions typical of the Latin American baroque. In addition to this historiographical perspective, some fundamental elements for its understanding have been incorporated into this work: the "discovery of the people", the iconography of the Holy Family and the desire for dark skin. Thus, it concludes with the analysis of more than five hundred Casta Paintings found on the platform coordinated by Professor Jaime Humberto Borja Gómez, through the ARCa Colonial Painting in the Americas Project.

     

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    Language: Spanish
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9786078782871; 9786078692859
    Edition: Primera edición
    Series: Serie Historia UAA
    Subjects: Religiöse Malerei; Bildnismalerei; Barock; Interethnische Herkunft <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Portrait painting, Mexican / 18th century; Casta painting; Racially mixed people in art; Miscegenation in art; Casta painting; Miscegenation in art; Portrait painting, Mexican; Racially mixed people in art; 1700-1799
    Scope: 150 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Limited edition of 500 copies

    Prefacio -- Introducción -- El escenario barroco: La reinvención de la metáfora -- El discurso historiográfico -- La construcción de un estigma -- El descubrimiento del pueblo -- El escenario iconográfico: la Sagrada familia -- Apología del mestizaje o el obscuro obieto del deseo -- Reflexiones finales

  3. The limits of familiarity
    authorship and Romantic readers
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

    "What did Wordsworth wear, and where did he walk? Who was Byron's new mistress, and how did his marriage fare? Answers-sometimes accurate, sometimes not-were tantalizingly at the ready for Romantic-era readers. Confessional poetry, romans à clef,... more

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    "What did Wordsworth wear, and where did he walk? Who was Byron's new mistress, and how did his marriage fare? Answers-sometimes accurate, sometimes not-were tantalizingly at the ready for Romantic-era readers. Confessional poetry, romans à clef, personal essays, gossip columns, and more gave readers exceptional access to well-known authors. But how close was too close? Widely recognized as a social virtue, familiarity-a feeling of emotional closeness or comforting predictability-could also be dangerous, vulgar, or boring. In The Limits of Familiarity, Eckert argues that these questions influenced literary production in the Romantic period. Uniting reception studies, celebrity studies, and literary history to reveal how anxieties about familiarity shaped both Romanticism and conceptions of authorship, this book encourages us to reflect in our own fraught historical moment on the line between telling all and telling all too much"--

     

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  4. Painting the novel
    pictorial discourse in eighteenth-century English fiction
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York, NY ; Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon

    "Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction focuses on the interrelationship between eighteenth-century theories of the novel and the art of painting - a subject which has not yet been undertaken in a book-length... more

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    "Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction focuses on the interrelationship between eighteenth-century theories of the novel and the art of painting - a subject which has not yet been undertaken in a book-length study. This volume argues that throughout the century novelists from Daniel Defoe to Ann Radcliffe referred to the visual arts, recalling specific names or artworks, but also artistic styles and conventions, in an attempt to define the generic constitution of their fictions. In this, the novelists took part in the discussion of the sister arts, not only by pointing to the affinities between them but also, more importantly, by recognising their potential to inform one another; in other words, they expressed a conviction that the theory of a new genre can be successfully rendered through meta-pictorial analogies. By tracing the uses of painting in eighteenth-century novelistic discourse, this book sheds new light on the history of the so-called "rise of the novel"."--Provided by publisher

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1351137794; 9781351137799
    RVK Categories: HK 1091
    Series: British literature in context in the long eighteenth century
    Subjects: Art and literature; Art in literature; English fiction; LITERARY CRITICISM; Art and literature; Art in literature; English fiction; Illustration; Englisch; Kunst <Motiv>; Roman
    Other subjects: 1700-1799; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (174 Seiten)
  5. Opera and the politics of tragedy
    a Mozartean museum
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY

    "This book plays host to an Enlightenment exhibition. On display: a curated collection of operas, paintings, and literary works that were all complicit in a furious cultural frenzy with dangerous political stakes. A Mozartian Museum captures the... more

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    "This book plays host to an Enlightenment exhibition. On display: a curated collection of operas, paintings, and literary works that were all complicit in a furious cultural frenzy with dangerous political stakes. A Mozartian Museum captures the tumultuous impact of the so-called "Telemacomania" crisis through its key artifacts: literary pamphlets, spoken dramas, paintings, engravings, and opera librettos (drammi per musica). Prominently featured in the gallery are two operas with direct ties to this aesthetic and political war: Mozart and Cigna-Santi's Mitridate (1770) and Mozart and Varesco's Idomeneo (1781). Reading and listening across the Enlightenment's cultural spaces (its new public museums, its first encyclopedias, and its ever-controversial operatic theater), this museum showcases the Enlightenment's disorderly historical revisionism alongside its progressive politics to expose the fertile creativity that can emerge out of the ambiguous space between what is "ancient" and what is "modern.""--

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781648250491
    Series: Eastman studies in music ; 188
    Subjects: Ästhetik; Querelle des anciens et des modernes
    Other subjects: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Idomeneo, rè di Creta; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Mitridate, rè di Ponto; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus / 1756-1791 / Mitridate, rè di Ponto; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus / 1756-1791 / Idomeneo; Opera / 18th century; Idomeneo (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus); Mitridate, rè di Ponto (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus); Opera; 1700-1799
    Scope: xxxvi, 228 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
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    Entrance hall: arts, letters, and music -- Modern antiquarian spaces -- "La poésie" and its systems -- Arts and letters -- The lyrical impulse -- Exhibit A. The poet's prose: Mitridate -- Room 1: Literary adventures in télémacomania -- Treasonous popularity -- Sensual lyricism -- Tragic prose on trial -- Opera as mediator -- Room 2: Mitridate's operatic poetry -- Allegorical Mithridates -- Political Mithridates -- Operatic Mithridates -- Transformative farnace -- Exhibit B. Paintings unseen: Idomeneo -- Room 3: Imagi(ni)ng the prose epic -- Epic values -- Painting Télémaque -- Myths invisible and unheard -- Epic opera -- Room 4: Idomeneo's operatic canvas -- The operatic stage as canvas -- The composition of an opera -- Portrait of a king -- Supernatural angles -- Exit: regrest on parting -- Decorative luxury -- Prose painting -- Declassification

  6. A poetics of Handel's operas
    Author: Link, Nathan
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York, NY

    "A Poetics of Handel's Operas investigates the rich representational fabric of Handel's stories, drawing upon musicology, narratology, drama, and film in offering a study with appeal to scholars, producers and performers, opera afficionados, and... more

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    "A Poetics of Handel's Operas investigates the rich representational fabric of Handel's stories, drawing upon musicology, narratology, drama, and film in offering a study with appeal to scholars, producers and performers, opera afficionados, and anyone fascinated by storytelling. In most storytelling genres, we often distinguish between the story, on the one hand, and the way that story is represented, on the other, without a second thought. We know that a character in a film hears neither her own voice-over nor the ambient music that accompanies it, and that she does not really build a house from the ground up in the three minutes spanned by the cinematic montage that depict its construction. In opera, however, many commentators to this day characterize the medium as "unrealistic," since we know, for example, that people in the real world do not sing to each other, nor does orchestral music accompany their utterances. This said, the vocal and orchestral music, while not literally present in the world of the story surely have a great deal to tell us about the opera's story and its characters, and if we distinguish the performance we see and hear on the stage and in the orchestra pit from the story represented, we enable ourselves to construct stories that are no less coherent than those conveyed by other media. By avoiding conflation of the story and its representation, we enable ourselves to engage more meaningfully with the significance of these and many other unique aspects of operatic storytelling"--

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780197651346
    RVK Categories: LP 39140
    Subjects: Narrativität; Aufführung; Opera seria; Film; Libretto
    Other subjects: Händel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759); Handel, George Frideric / 1685-1759 / Operas; Opera / 18th century; Operas (Handel, George Frideric); Opera; 1700-1799
    Scope: xvi, 367 Seiten, Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele
  7. Eighteenth-century adaptations of supernatural Shakespeare
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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  8. Reading contagion
    the hazards of reading in the age of print
    Author: Mann, Annika
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville

    "This books examines eighteenth-century beliefs that reading threatened to transform the world by creating new embodied collectives and fomenting large-scale epidemics"-- more

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    "This books examines eighteenth-century beliefs that reading threatened to transform the world by creating new embodied collectives and fomenting large-scale epidemics"--

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0813941776; 9780813941776
    RVK Categories: HK 1023
    Subjects: Books and reading; Communicable diseases in literature; Social aspects; Great Britain; Diseases in literature; History; 18th century; English fiction; Epidemics in literature; History and criticism; Literature and medicine; Medicine in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc; 1700-1799
    Scope: xi, 257 Seiten, Ilustrationen, 24 cm
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    Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University, 2011

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 223 - 244

    Dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2011

  9. The origins of Kant's aesthetics
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore

    "Organized around eight themes central to aesthetic theory today, this book examines the sources and development of Kant's aesthetics by mining his publications, correspondence, handwritten notes, and university lectures. Each chapter explores one of... more

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    "Organized around eight themes central to aesthetic theory today, this book examines the sources and development of Kant's aesthetics by mining his publications, correspondence, handwritten notes, and university lectures. Each chapter explores one of eight themes: aesthetic judgment and normativity, formal beauty, partly conceptual beauty, artistic creativity or genius, the fine arts, the sublime, ugliness and disgust, and humor. Robert R. Clewis considers how Kant's thought was shaped by authors such as Christian Wolff, Alexander Baumgarten, Georg Meier, Moses Mendelssohn, Johann Sulzer, Johann Herder, Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Henry Home, Charles Batteux, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire. His resulting study uncovers and illuminates the complex development of Kant's aesthetic theory and will be useful to advanced students and scholars in fields across the humanities and studies of the arts"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781009209427; 9781009209434
    RVK Categories: CF 5017
    Subjects: Ästhetik; Schönheit; Ästhetisches Urteil
    Other subjects: Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804); Kant, Immanuel / 1724-1804; Aesthetics; Philosophy, German / 18th century; Kant, Immanuel / 1724-1804; Aesthetics; Philosophy, German; 1700-1799
    Scope: xiv, 265 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Introduction -- Part I. Aesthetic Judgment and Beauty : 1. On Rules of Taste -- 2. Beauty Free -- 3. Beauty Grounded -- Part II. Genius and the Fine Arts : 4. Genius, Thick and Thin -- 5. Classifying the Fine Arts -- Part III. Negative and Positive States : 6. Meet the Sublime Now: It's a Negative Pleasure -- 7. Ugliness and Disgust: Disagreeable Sensations -- 8. Playing with Humor -- Closing Reflections

  10. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
    Britain and the American dream ; with Benjamin Franklin, William Strahan, Samuel Johnson, John Wilkes, Catharine Macaulay, Thomas Paine
    Author: Moore, Peter
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

    "A history of the British thinkers who developed the Enlightenment-era ideas and ideals that drove the American Revolution"-- "The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit... more

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    "A history of the British thinkers who developed the Enlightenment-era ideas and ideals that drove the American Revolution"-- "The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." In a statement as pithy--and contested--as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final, iconizing revision was the last in a long chain of revisions stretching across the Atlantic and back. The precise contours of these three rights have never been pinned down--and yet in making these words into rights, Jefferson reified the hopes (and debates) not only of a group of rebel-statesmen but also of an earlier generation of British thinkers who could barely imagine a country like the United States of America. Peter Moore's Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness tells the true story of what may be the most successful import in US history: the "American dream." Centered on the friendship between Benjamin Franklin and the British publisher William Strahan, and featuring figures including the cultural giant Samuel Johnson, the ground-breaking historian Catharine Macaulay, the firebrand politician John Wilkes, and revolutionary activist Thomas Paine, this book looks at the generation that preceded the Declaration in 1776. Everyone, it seemed, had "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" on their minds; Moore shows why, and reveals how these still-nascent ideals made their way across an ocean and started a revolution" --

     

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  11. Forensic storytelling and the literary roots of early modern feminism
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    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London ; New York

    "The writing of letters and the rise of the novel provided a way for some women to express themselves at a time when the all-male French Academy defined the very parameters of French literary acceptability and tradition. Women who were consigned to... more

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    "The writing of letters and the rise of the novel provided a way for some women to express themselves at a time when the all-male French Academy defined the very parameters of French literary acceptability and tradition. Women who were consigned to convents, workhouses or prisons were in most respects deprived of agency, yet many found ways to respond to the legal documents served against them. The letters and associated materials preserved in their legal files provide evidence that these women did not remain quiet, as they found means to resist authority. The forensic storytelling examined in this book supports the conclusion that the documents written in these constrained circumstances have both historical and literary merit and form the core of an understudied genre of literature"--

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780367029173; 9781032632728
    Series: Routledge focus on literature
    Subjects: Französisch; Brief; Frauenliteratur
    Other subjects: French letters / History and criticism; French prose literature / Women authors / History and criticism; French prose literature / 18th century / History and criticism; Authors, French / 18th century / Correspondence / History and criticism; Women authors, French / Correspondence / History and criticism; French literature / Women authors / History and criticism; Women and literature / France / History / 18th century; Letter writing, French / History / 18th century; Feminism; Lettres françaises (Genre littéraire) / Histoire et critique; Prose française / 18e siècle / Histoire et critique; Écrivains français / 18e siècle / Correspondance / Histoire et critique; Écrivaines françaises / Correspondance / Histoire et critique; Femmes et littérature / France / Histoire / 18e siècle; Correspondance / Histoire / 18e siècle; Féminisme; feminism; Feminism; French letters; French literature / Women authors; French prose literature; French prose literature / Women authors; Letter writing, French; Women and literature; France; 1700-1799; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
    Scope: vii, 161 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
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    Forensic storytelling and antimonarchical epistolarity -- Les causes célèbres, factum or fiction? or: "That's what he said!" -- Tanastès est Satan: authenticity and audacity in the writings of Marie-Madeleine Bonafon -- Excess or success? the case of Mme Geneviève de Gravelle -- "What's in a name?": The case of Angélique Schwab -- Conclusion

  12. Reimagining illness
    women writers and medicine in eighteenth-century Britain
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago

    "In eighteenth-century Britain the worlds of literature and medicine were closely intertwined, and a diverse group of people participated in the circulation of medical knowledge. In this pre-professionalized milieu, several women writers made... more

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    "In eighteenth-century Britain the worlds of literature and medicine were closely intertwined, and a diverse group of people participated in the circulation of medical knowledge. In this pre-professionalized milieu, several women writers made important contributions by describing a range of common yet often devastating illnesses. In Reimagining Illness Heather Meek reads works by six major eighteenth-century women writers--Jane Barker, Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Frances Burney--alongside contemporaneous medical texts to explore conditions such as hysteria, melancholy, smallpox, maternity, consumption, and breast cancer. In novels, poems, letters, and journals, these writers drew on their learning and literary skill as they engaged with and revised male-dominated medical discourse. Their works provide insight into the experience of suffering and interrogate accepted theories of women's bodies and minds. In ways relevant both then and now, these women demonstrate how illness might be at once a bodily condition and a malleable construct full of ideological meaning and imaginative possibility. Reimagining Illness offers a new account of the vital period in medico-literary history between 1660 and 1815, revealing how the works of women writers not only represented the medicine of their time but also contributed meaningfully to its developments."--

     

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  13. Reading it wrong
    an alternative history of early eighteenth-century literature
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton ; Oxford

    "How eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation--and how this still shapes the way we read. Reading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what has been everywhere evident but rarely talked... more

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    "How eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation--and how this still shapes the way we read. Reading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what has been everywhere evident but rarely talked about: the misunderstanding, muddle and confusion of readers of the past when they first met the uniquely elusive writings of the period. Abigail Williams uses the marginal marks and jottings of these readers to show that flawed interpretation has its own history--and its own important role to play--in understanding how, why and what we read. Focusing on the first half of the eighteenth century, the golden age of satire, Reading It Wrong tells how a combination of changing readerships and fantastically tricky literature created the perfect grounds for puzzlement and partial comprehension. Through the lens of a history of imperfect reading, we see that many of the period's major works--by writers including Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, Mary Wortley Montagu, Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift--both generated and depended upon widespread misreading. Being foxed by a satire, coded fiction or allegory was, like Wordle or the cryptic crossword, a form of entertainment, and perhaps a group sport. Rather than worrying that we don't have all the answers, we should instead recognize the cultural importance of not knowing"--

     

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  14. Rousseau's reader
    strategies of persuasion and education
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

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  15. 4E cognition and eighteenth-century fiction
    how the novel found its feet
  16. Systems failure
    the uses of disorder in English literature
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland

    "Systems Failure is the first book to consider English fiction of the long eighteenth century as a sweeping critique of Enlightenment system-building. It examines literary responses to various schemes of social organization, from Johnson's tracking... more

     

    "Systems Failure is the first book to consider English fiction of the long eighteenth century as a sweeping critique of Enlightenment system-building. It examines literary responses to various schemes of social organization, from Johnson's tracking of urban encounters in the Life of Savage and Sterne's anatomization of interpersonal relationships in A Sentimental Journey to Austen's marriage plots and De Quincey's essays on the circulation of the mail and the contemplation of the cosmos. Franta is interested in how writers take up civil and cultural institutions designed to rationalize society (cities, maps, transportation and postal systems, commercial society and the market economy, courtship and marriage, sentimental exchanges, political parties) only to complicate them, stretching their organizational and explanatory resources until they unravel. In this unraveling, literature arrives at its most penetrating insights about the structure of social life. Narrative becomes a tool for critique and a form in which aspects of the social world that elude systematic representation can be figured; these texts thus compose a tradition that runs alongside but contests our received ideas about the rise of the novel. If the main line of the novel depicts the individual's place in society, these authors explore the constitution of the social realm in which individuals are imagined to take their places. Systems Failure argues that this tradition develops an unfamiliar account of literature's contribution to the study of social order, disorder, and change in the long eighteenth century--one that has less to do with the novelistic representation of social reality than the literary analysis of the idea that society has a structure."--

     

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    ISBN: 9781421427515; 1421427516
    RVK Categories: HL 1101 ; HK 1091
    Subjects: Englisch; Literatur; Aufklärung; Soziales System <Motiv>; Geschichte 1700-1850;
    Other subjects: English fiction / 18th century / History and criticism; Social systems / In literature; Literature and society / England / History / 18th century; Enlightenment / England; English fiction; Enlightenment; Literature and society; England; 1700-1799; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
    Scope: x, 215 Seiten, 24 cm
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    Introduction : unconscionable maps -- Life without theory in the Life of Savage -- Sterne and the uses of disorder -- From map to network in Humphry Clinker -- Godwin's handshake -- Jane Austen and the morphology of the marriage plot -- De Quincey's systems -- Coda : the strange system of human society

  17. <<A>> spy on Eliza Haywood
    addresses to a multifarious writer
    Contributor: Hultquist, Aleksondra (Publisher); Mounsey, Chris (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York

    "Eliza Haywood's writing career spanned the gamut of genres: novels, plays, advice manuals, periodicals, propaganda, satire, and translations. This book demonstrates how she contributed to making women's writing a locus of debate to be taken... more

     

    "Eliza Haywood's writing career spanned the gamut of genres: novels, plays, advice manuals, periodicals, propaganda, satire, and translations. This book demonstrates how she contributed to making women's writing a locus of debate to be taken seriously by contemporary readers, and by current scholars of the eighteenth century"--

     

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    Contributor: Hultquist, Aleksondra (Publisher); Mounsey, Chris (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781032055411
    Series: Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature
    Subjects: Haywood, Eliza Fowler; Englisch; Literatur; Frauenliteratur; Feministische Literaturwissenschaft;
    Other subjects: Haywood, Eliza Fowler / 1693?-1756 / Criticism and interpretation; Women authors, English / 18th century / Biography; English literature / 18th century / History and criticism; Haywood, Eliza Fowler / 1693?-1756; English literature; Women authors, English; 1700-1799; Biographies; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: vi, 255 Seiten, Illustrationen, 25 cm
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    Enthält Literaturangaben

    Introduction: Spying on Eliza Haywood / Aleksondra Hultquist and Chris Mounsey -- Eliza Haywood and the deluded heroine plot / Rachel Carnell -- "The shame would be wholly hers" : negotiating gendered shame and desire in Eliza Haywood's Love in excess and The masqueraders / Kristin M. Distel -- "The air of clock-work" : the amatory machine of masculinity in Eliza Haywood's fiction / Mary Beth Harris -- Eliza Haywood and captivity / Catherine Ingrassia -- "I will also give a Copy" : Eliza Haywood and the developing authority of print / Marta Kvande -- Eliza Haywood : a life in the theatre / Jean Marsden -- Eliza Haywood, Alexander Pope and George of Hanover : satire and the telephoto lens / Chris Mounsey -- Eliza Haywood, Francis Hutcheson, and the stoic heritage : calming the vehement passions in the female spectator / Chance David Pahl -- Translation and empire in Haywood's La belle assemblée / Annie Persons -- "I have such a piece of news for you" : serving gossip at Haywood's The tea-table / Bethany E. Qualls -- Having it both ways : bigamy and the marriage act in Eliza Haywood's The life of madam de Villesache / Shea Stuart -- Haywood in Holland : translating the passions in the French and Dutch translation of Idalia; or the unfortunate mistress / Fauve Vandenberghe

  18. Theatres of feeling
    affect, performance, and the eighteenth-century stage
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore

    "Historicizing affect provides an important register of cultural developments, and because of this link between theatre and culture, explorations of performance as well as affect have turned to the work of Raymond Williams, in particular to his... more

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    "Historicizing affect provides an important register of cultural developments, and because of this link between theatre and culture, explorations of performance as well as affect have turned to the work of Raymond Williams, in particular to his discussion of 'structures of feelings,' as a means of approaching the complex operation of emotion and theatre. Williams's work has a strong affinity for eighteenth-century studies, and his discussion of what he famously termed 'structures of feeling' is admirably suited to a consideration of the overtly emotional world of eighteenth-century theatre. It is a slippery term, as Williams himself admits, and he suggests as an alternative structures of experience before rejecting that term because of its potential to imply past rather than present experience. These structures are, as Williams emphasizes, a process rather than an ideological system, growing out of lived experience, so that one of the crucial components of these structures of feeling is that they are immediate, situated in a specific moment"--

     

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  19. The problem of profit
    finance and feeling in eighteenth-century British literature
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville ; London

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780813942896
    RVK Categories: HK 1091 ; HK 1071
    Edition: First published
    Subjects: Profit <Motiv>; Literatur; Englisch
    Other subjects: English literature / 18th century / History and critisim; Finance in literature; Emotions in literature; Emotions in literature; Finance in literature; 1700-1799
    Scope: ix, 300 Seiten, Illustrationen
  20. De vergeten Prinsessen van Thorn
    (1700-1794)
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Sterck & De Vreese, Gorredijk, Nederland

    Het stift van Thorn is in de achttiende eeuw "the place to be" voor de hoogadellijke dochters van de Europese rijksvorsten en -graven. Ze worden hier klaargestoomd voor een huwelijk met een man van stand, leren zich uitdrukken in het Frans, krijgen... more

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    Het stift van Thorn is in de achttiende eeuw "the place to be" voor de hoogadellijke dochters van de Europese rijksvorsten en -graven. Ze worden hier klaargestoomd voor een huwelijk met een man van stand, leren zich uitdrukken in het Frans, krijgen zanglessen en organiseren dansfeesten. Hun japonnen naar de laatste mode uit Parijs zijn exclusief en de exquise gerechten eten ze met zilveren bestek. In de glazen kooi waarin ze leven dienen ze voortdurend het bij hun stand passende gedrag te vertonen, één enkele misstap kan fataal zijn. Historicus Joost Welten kon de hand leggen op een gigantische hoeveelheid nooit eerder geraadpleegde bronnen en geeft in 'De vergeten prinsessen van Thorn' een inkijk in de leefwereld van dit voormalige rijk der hoogadellijke vrouwen. Vorstelijk geïllustreerd met meer dan 150 afbeeldingen - vaak nooit eerder gepubliceerd. We volgen de adellijke dames op hun reizen door Europa, tijdens jachtpartijen, maar ook wanneer ze vertwijfeld op zoek zijn naar geld om hun schulden te betalen. Hoe gaan zij om met de speelruimte die hun wordt toebedeeld? Schikken zij zich in een dienstbare rol of zien ze kans om een eigen kleur te geven aan het leven en daarin iets uit te drukken van hun idealen en ambities?

     

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  21. Intelligent souls?
    feminist orientalism in eighteenth-century English literature
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, PA

    "Do women have souls? Christianity has traditionally held the soul to be the seat of reason, intelligence, humanity, immortality, and moral agency. But the Book of Genesis never says that God breathed a soul into Eve. Women's souls thus became... more

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    "Do women have souls? Christianity has traditionally held the soul to be the seat of reason, intelligence, humanity, immortality, and moral agency. But the Book of Genesis never says that God breathed a soul into Eve. Women's souls thus became significant in Reformation satires as Protestants and Catholics debated whether scripture alone or institutional authority ought to determine interpretation. In England, these satires eventually intersected with what scholars have called the "Trinitarian Controversy," a dispute about the nature of Christ that paralleled the interpretive difficulty regarding the nature of women's souls. In order to marginalize heterodox thinkers who claimed that Christ was not of the same substance as God the Father, orthodox Anglicans collapsed the distinction between schism and heresy by comparing heterodox Christians to a sexualized stereotype of Muslim despots. Part of this stereotype was the (erroneous) claim that Muslim doctrine asserted that women did not have souls and could only experience physical, not intellectual, pleasure. Thus, the problem of competing Christian biblical interpretations could be foisted onto a stereotype of Muslim men as brutal, self-serving misogynists. Englishwomen soon took up the trope to argue that a truly enlightened, and necessarily Christian, Englishman would support improvements in women's education--and feminist orientalism was born"--

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781684480982; 9781684480975; 9781684481002
    RVK Categories: HK 1091
    Series: Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850
    Subjects: Orientalisierende Literatur; Seele <Motiv>; Englisch
    Other subjects: English literature / 18th century / History and criticism; English literature / Women authors / History and criticism; Orientalism in literature; Soul in literature; Women in literature; English literature; English literature / Women authors; Orientalism in literature; Soul in literature; Women in literature; 1700-1799; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 232 Seiten, 25 cm
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    Introduction: foreign intelligence -- The negative ideal -- Minding the gap -- The canal of pleasure -- A "foreign and uninteresting" subject -- The "Mahometan strain" -- Epilogue: save our souls?

  22. The printed reader
    gender, quixotism, and textual bodies in eighteenth-century Britain
    Author: Dale, Amelia
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

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  23. The novel stage
    narrative form from the Restoration to Jane Austen
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

    "The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen traces the novel's relation to the theater over the course of the long eighteenth century, arguing that the familiar account of the novel as 'new' and distinct from other literary... more

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    "The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen traces the novel's relation to the theater over the course of the long eighteenth century, arguing that the familiar account of the novel as 'new' and distinct from other literary genres risks distorting a true reckoning of the form by failing to engage with the borrowings and departures from other more familiar genres, particularly drama. The Novel Stage traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel. These genres were shared across print and performance, media that were not construed as opposites in a world in which individual silent reading took place beside playgoing, play-reading, amateur theatricals, and sociable reading aloud. The book thus expands an overly narrow conception of the novel as the genre of realism or domesticity whose highest achievement is its representation of characters' mental lives by describing the influence of the stage and its genres. Beginning in the later 1600s with Aphra Behn, The Novel Stage concludes with a chapter on some novelists of the Romantic period and a coda about Victorian novels. The Novel Stage's account of the novel provides an enriched, because more specific, sense of its formal accomplishments that drew on this ensemble of cultural forms and turns that lens back onto drama"--

     

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    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781684481675; 9781684481682
    RVK Categories: HK 1301
    Series: Transits
    Subjects: Englisch; Drama; Roman
    Other subjects: English literature / 18th century / History and criticism / Theory, etc; English drama / 18th century / History and criticism / Theory, etc; English literature / Theory, etc; 1700-1799; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 218 Seiten, Illustrationen
  24. Imperial paradoxes
    training the senses and tasting the Eighteenth Century
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago

    "At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments.... more

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    "At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments. Their shared interest in standards of living and cultural practices was fuelled by migration and philosophical exchanges that reciprocally transmitted the values of urban geography, medicine, teaching, and the industrial and fine arts. In Imperial Paradoxes Robert Merrett compares British and French literature on those topics. He explains how food, wine, fashion, and tourism were channels of interdisciplinary relations and shows why authors in both nations turned the notion of empire from commercial and military expansion into a metaphor for exploring self-knowledge and pleasure. Although cognitive science has come to the fore only in the past two generations, eighteenth-century writers tested problems in the dualist and faculty psychology of Western rationalism. Themes of embodiment and embodied thought drawn from recent theorists are applied throughout this book, along with dialectics and models of the senses operating together. Imperial Paradoxes avoids the limitations of strict chronology, weaving together multiple narratives for a more complete picture. Applying major works in the fields of cognitive science, cognitive psychology, and pedagogical theory to prose, poetry, and drama from the eighteenth century, Merrett shows how attention to eating, drinking, dressing, and travelling gives important insights into individual literary works and literary history."--

     

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  25. Genre and reception in the gothic parody
    framing the subversive heroine
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY

    "This book brings together an analysis of the theoretical connection of genre, reception, and frame theory and a practical demonstration thereof, using a set of parodies of the first wave of the Gothic novel"-- more

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    "This book brings together an analysis of the theoretical connection of genre, reception, and frame theory and a practical demonstration thereof, using a set of parodies of the first wave of the Gothic novel"--

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780367742218; 0367742217; 9781032154350; 1032154357
    RVK Categories: HG 674 ; HL 1314
    Series: Routledge studies in speculative fiction
    Subjects: Heldin; Englisch; Schauerliteratur; Frau; Parodie; Geschlechterrolle; Schauerroman
    Other subjects: Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English / History and criticism; English fiction / 18th century / History and criticism; Parody; Heroines in literature; English fiction; Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English; Heroines in literature; Parody; 1700-1799; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Literary criticism; Literary criticism
    Scope: viii, 194 Seiten
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    Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral) - Universität Bamberg, 2015

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