An Anthology Of London In Literature 1558 1914

Author : Geoffrey G. Hiller,Peter L. Groves,Alan F. Dilnot
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030056094

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An Anthology of London in Literature, 1558-1914 by Geoffrey G. Hiller,Peter L. Groves,Alan F. Dilnot Pdf

This book is an anthology of extracts of literary writing (in prose, verse and drama) about London and its diverse inhabitants, taken from the accession of Queen Elizabeth I in 1558 to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. The 143 extracts, divided into four periods (1558-1659, 1660-1780, 1781-1870 and 1871-1914), range from about 250 words to 2,500. Each of the four periods has an introduction that deals with relevant social, geographical and historical developments, and each extract is introduced with a contextualizing headnote and furnished with explanatory footnotes. In addition, the general introduction to the anthology addresses some of the literary questions that arise in writing about London, and the book ends with many suggestions for further reading. It should appeal not only to the general reader interested in London and its representation, but also to students of literature in courses about ‘reading the city’.

Author : Richard Fairman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0712357408

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London by Richard Fairman Pdf

"This anthology features a wide-ranging collection of poems and scenes from novels that stretch from the fifteenth century to the present day. From well-known texts to others that are less familiar, here is London brought to life through the words of many of the greatest writers in the English language."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Xavier Baron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022771252

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London 1066-1914 by Xavier Baron Pdf

The three volumes of London 1066-1914 offer a varied gathering of texts that celebrate and describe, condemn and satirize, document and interpret the life of a complex and changing metropolis from its early development to its apex as a world center of power and influence in commerce, politics, the arts and culture.

Author : J. Harris,E. Scott-Baumann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230289727

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The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680 by J. Harris,E. Scott-Baumann Pdf

This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early modern period. It demonstrates that women's roles within puritan and broader communities encompassed translating and disseminating key texts, producing an impressive body of original writing.

Author : Gesine Manuwald,L. B. T. Houghton,Lucy R. Nicholas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781350098909

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An Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature by Gesine Manuwald,L. B. T. Houghton,Lucy R. Nicholas Pdf

This volume offers a wide range of sample passages from literature written in Latin in the British Isles during the period from about 1500 to 1800. It includes a general introduction to and bibliography to the Latin literature of these centuries, as well as Latin texts with English translations, introductions and notes. These texts present a rich panorama of the different literary genres, styles and themes flourishing at the time, illustrating the role of Latin texts in the development of literary genres, the diversity of authors writing in Latin in early modern Britain, and the importance of Latin in contemporary political, religious and scientific debates. The collection, which includes both texts by well-known authors (such as John Milton, Thomas More and George Buchanan) and previously unpublished items, can be used as a point of entry for students at school and university level, but will also be of interest to specialists in a number of academic disciplines.

Author : Susan Frye,Karen Robertson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Female friendship
ISBN : 9780195117356

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Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens by Susan Frye,Karen Robertson Pdf

This collection of sixteen essays considers evidence for the array of women's alliances in early modern England. The inclusions range over a variety of communities, households, and court -- and consider classes of women from vagabonds to queens to explore the traces of women's connections.These clear and Lively interdisciplinary essays, combining literary and historical methods and materials, are informed by feminism, queer theory, and studies of racer in the early modern period.

Author : Christopher Highley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199533404

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Catholics Writing the Nation in Early Modern Britain and Ireland by Christopher Highley Pdf

After the accession of the Protestant Elizabeth, the Catholic imagining of England was mainly the project of the exiles who had left their homeland in search of religious toleration and foreign assistance."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Rosemary Huisman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0304339997

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The Written Poem by Rosemary Huisman Pdf

This text discusses the visual and graphic conventions in contemporary poetry in English. It defines contemporary poetry and its historical construction as a 'seen object' and uses literary and social theory of the 1990s to facilitate the study. In examining how a poem is recognized, the interpretive conventions for reading it, and how the spacial arrangement on the page is meaningful for contemporary poetry, the text takes examples from individual poems. There is also a focus on changes in manuscript conventions from Old to Middle English poetry and the change from a social to a personal understanding of poetic meaning from the late 18th through the 19th century.

Author : Gesine Manuwald,Lucy R. Nicholas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781350160279

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An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities by Gesine Manuwald,Lucy R. Nicholas Pdf

Compiled by a team of experts in the field, this volume brings to view an array of Latin texts produced in British universities from c.1500 to 1700. It includes a comprehensive introduction to the production of Neo-Latin and Neo-Greek in the early modern university, the precise circumstances and broader environments that gave rise to it, plus an associated bibliography. 12 high-quality sections, each prefaced by its own short introduction, set forth the Latin (and occasionally Greek) texts and accompanying English translations and notes. Each section provides focused orientation and is arranged in such a way as to ensure the volume's accessibility to scholars and students at all levels of familiarity with Neo-Latin. Passages are taken from documents that were composed in seats of learning across the British Isles, in Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, Edinburgh and St Andrews, and adduce a wide range of material from orations and disputational theses to collections of occasional verse, correspondence, notebooks and university drama. This anthology as a whole conveys a sense of the extent of Latin's role in the academy and the span of remits in which it was deployed. Far from simply offering a snapshot of discrete projects, the contributions collectively offer insights into the broader culture of the early modern university over an extended period. They engage with the administrative operations of institutions, pedagogical processes and academic approaches, but also high-level disputes and the universities' relationship with the worlds of politics, new science and intellectual developments elsewhere in Europe.

Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1185 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442642690

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Italian Literature Before 1900 in English Translation by Robin Healey Pdf

"Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into English, and published between 1929 and 2008. It lists works from all genres and subjects, and includes translations wherever they have appeared across the globe. In this annotated bibliography, Robin Healey covers over 5,200 distinct editions of pre-1900 Italian writings. Most entries are accompanied by useful notes providing information on authors, works, translators, and how the translations were received. Among the works by over 1,500 authors represented in this volume are hundreds of editions by Italy's most translated authors - Dante Alighieri, [Niccoláo] Machiavelli, and [Giovanni] Boccaccio - and other hundreds which represent the author's only English translation. A significant number of entries describe works originally published in Latin. Together with Healey's Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature."--Pub. desc.

Author : K. Heavey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137466242

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The Early Modern Medea by K. Heavey Pdf

This is the first book-length study of early modern English approaches to Medea, the classical witch and infanticide who exercised a powerful sway over literary and cultural imagination in the period 1558-1688. It encompasses poetry, prose and drama, and translation, tragedy, comedy and political writing.

Author : Patrick Parrinder
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191647727

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Nation and Novel by Patrick Parrinder Pdf

What is 'English' about the English novel, and how has the idea of the English nation been shaped by the writers of fiction? How do the novel's profound differences from poetry and drama affect its representation of national consciousness? Nation and Novel sets out to answer these questions by tracing English prose fiction from its late medieval origins through its stories of rogues and criminals, family rebellions and suffering heroines, to the present-day novels of immigration. Major novelists from Daniel Defoe to the late twentieth century have drawn on national history and mythology in novels which have pitted Cavalier against Puritan, Tory against Whig, region against nation, and domesticity against empire. The novel is deeply concerned with the fate of the nation, but almost always at variance with official and ruling-class perspectives on English society. Patrick Parrinder's groundbreaking new literary history outlines the English novel's distinctive, sometimes paradoxical, and often subversive view of national character and identity. This sophisticated yet accessible assessment of the relationship between fiction and nation will set the agenda for future research and debate.

Author : Harvard University. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015050719403

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English Literature by Harvard University. Library Pdf

Author : Miranda Sachs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Child labor
ISBN : 9780197638453

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An Age to Work by Miranda Sachs Pdf

In the final decades of the nineteenth century, the French Third Republic attempted to carve out childhood as a distinct legal and social category. Previously, working-class girls and boys had labored and trained alongside adults. Concerned about future citizens, lawmakers expanded access to education, regulated child labor, and developed child welfare programs. They directed working-class youths to age-segregated spaces, such as vocational schools or juvenile prisons. With these policies, they distinguished the youthful worker from the adult worker and the juvenile delinquent from the adult criminal. Through their emphasis on age, these policies defined childhood as a universal stage of life. And yet, they also reproduced inequalities in the experience of childhood. In An Age to Work, Miranda Sachs considers the role of the welfare state in reinforcing class and gender-based divisions within childhood. She argues that agents of the welfare state, such as child labor inspectors and social workers, played a crucial role in standardizing the path from childhood to the workforce. By enforcing age-based rules, such as child labor laws, they attempted to protect working class children. But they also policed these chidren's productivity and enforced gender-specific labor practices. An Age to Work also enters the streets and apartments of working-class Paris to examine how the laboring classes envisioned and experienced childhood. Although working-class parents continued to see childhood as a more fluid category, they agreed with state actors that their offspring should grow up to be productive. They too mobilized the welfare state to ensure this outcome. By interrogating these diverse perspectives, An Age to Work reveals that the same sort of welfare system that created social hierarchies in France's colonies reinforced the class system at home.

Author : John A. Wagner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313386893

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Voices of Victorian England by John A. Wagner Pdf

The Victorian age was a period of transition as Britain industrialized and society underwent profound changes. Here, contemporary voices provide students with an up-close look at this pivotal time. Voices of Victorian England illuminates the character, personalities, and events of the era through excerpts from primary documents produced between 1837 and 1901. By allowing Queen Victoria's contemporaries to speak for themselves, this work brings the achievements and conflicts that occurred during the queen's long reign alive for high school and college students as well as the general public. Excerpts represent literary giants such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, and Anthony Trollope. The book covers the worlds of politics, religion, economics, and science, and addresses subjects such as women's issues and the royal family. Documents include letters, poems, speeches, polemics, reviews, novels, official reports, and self-help guides, as well as descriptive narratives of people and events from England, Scotland, Ireland, and, where pertinent, America and continental Europe. Spelling has been modernized and unfamiliar terms defined, and questions and commentary provide background and context for each document. In addition, the book offers tools that will help readers effectively evaluate a document's meaning and importance.