Body Text In The Eighteenth Century

Author : Veronica Kelly,Dorothea von Mücke
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804766388

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Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century by Veronica Kelly,Dorothea von Mücke Pdf

Twelve scholars from the fields of English, French, and German literature here examine the complex ways in which the human body becomes the privileged semiotic model through which eighteenth-century culture defines its political and conceptual centers. In making clear that the deployment of the body varies tremendously depending on what is meant by the 'human body', the essays draw on popular literature, poetics and aesthetics, garden architecture, physiognomy, beauty manuals, pornography and philosophy, as well as on canonical works in the genres of the novel and the drama.

Author : Veronica Kelly,Dorothea E. von Mücke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804722692

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Body & Text in the Eighteenth Century by Veronica Kelly,Dorothea E. von Mücke Pdf

Scholars from the fields of English, French, and German literature analyze the complex appearances of the human body at the centers and limits of the cultural production of meaning.

Author : Paul Goring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139456760

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The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture by Paul Goring Pdf

The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture explores the burgeoning eighteenth-century fascination with the human body as an eloquent, expressive object. This wide-ranging study examines the role of the body within a number of cultural arenas - particularly oratory, the theatre and the novel - and charts the efforts of projectors and reformers who sought to exploit the textual potential of the body for the public assertion of modern politeness. Paul Goring shows how diverse writers and performers including David Garrick, James Fordyce, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding and Laurence Sterne were involved in the construction of new ideals of physical eloquence - bourgeois, sentimental ideals which stood in contrast to more patrician, classical bodily modes. Through innovative readings of fiction and contemporary manuals on acting and public speaking, Goring reveals the ways in which the human body was treated as an instrument for the display of sensibility and polite values.

Author : Angela Zito
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0226987299

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Of Body and Brush by Angela Zito Pdf

The Qianlong emperor, who dominated the religious and political life of 18th-century China, was in turn dominated by elaborate ritual prescriptions. These texts determined what he wore and ate, how he moved, and how he performed the yearly Grand Sacrifices. OF BODY AND BRUSH shows how ritualizing power was produced jointly by the throne and the official literati who dictated the prescriptions. Illustrated.

Author : Katherine Mannheimer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136728563

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Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Satire by Katherine Mannheimer Pdf

This study interprets eighteenth-century satire’s famous typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment’s "ocularcentric" epistemological paradigms, as well as to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly "visual" — a moment at which widespread attention was being paid, for the first time, to format, layout, and eye-catching advertising strategies. On the one hand, the Augustans were convinced of the ability of their elaborately printed texts to function as a kind of optical machinery rivaling that of the New Science, enhancing readers’ physical but also moral vision. On the other hand, they feared that an overly scrutinizing gaze might undermine the viewer’s natural faculty for candor and sympathy, delight and desire. In readings of Pope, Swift, and Montagu, Mannheimer shows how this distrust of the empirical gaze led to a reconsideration of the ethics, and most specifically the gender politics, of ocularcentrism. Whereas Montagu effected this reconsideration by directly satirizing both the era’s faith in the visual and its attendant publishing strategies, Pope and Swift pursued their critique via print itself: thus whether via facing-page translations, fictional editors, or disingenuous footnotes, these writers sought to ensure that typography never became either a mere tool of (or target for) the objectifying gaze, but rather that it remained a dynamic and interactive medium by which readers could learn both to see and to see themselves seeing.

Author : I. Csengei
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230359178

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Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century by I. Csengei Pdf

What makes it possible for self-interest, cruelty and violence to become part of the benevolent, compassionate ideology of eighteenth-century sensibility? This book explores forms of emotional response, including sympathy, tears, swoons and melancholia through a range of eighteenth-century literary, philosophical and scientific texts.

Author : Britt-Louise Gunnarsson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110255065

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Languages of Science in the Eighteenth Century by Britt-Louise Gunnarsson Pdf

The eighteenth century is an important period both in the history of science and in the history of languages. Interest in science, and especially in the useful sciences, exploded and a new, modern approach to scientific discovery and the accumulation of knowledge emerged. It was during this century, too, that ideas on language and language practice began to change. Latin had been more or less the only written language used for scientific purposes, but gradually the vernaculars became established as fully acceptable alternatives for scientific writing. The period is of interest, moreover, from a genre-historical point of view. Encyclopedias, dictionaries and also correspondence played a key role in the spread of scientific ideas. At the time, writing on scientific matters was not as distinct from fiction, poetry or religious texts as it is today, a fact which also gave a creative liberty to individual writers. In this volume, seventeen authors explore, from a variety of angles, the construction of a scientific language and discourse. The chapters are thematically organized into four sections, each contributing to our understanding of this dynamic period in the history of science: their themes are the forming of scientific communities, the emergence of new languages of science, the spread of scientific ideas, and the development of scientific writing. A particular focus is placed on the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778). From the point of view of the natural sciences, Linnaeus is renowned for his principles for defining genera and species of organisms and his creation of a uniform system for naming them. From the standpoint of this volume, however, he is also of interest as an example of a European scientist of the eighteenth century. This volume is unique both in its broad linguistic approach - including studies on textlinguistics, stylistics, sociolinguistics, lexicon and nomenclature - and in its combination of language studies, philosophy of language, history and sociology of science. The book covers writing in different European languages: Swedish, German, French, English, Latin, Portuguese, and Russian. With its focus on the history of scientific language and discourse during a dynamic period in Europe, the book promises to contribute to new insights both for readers interested in language history and those with an interest in the history of ideas and thought.

Author : Antoinina Bevan Zlatar,Mark Ittensohn,Enit Karafili Steiner,Olga Timofeeva
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027258441

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Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar,Mark Ittensohn,Enit Karafili Steiner,Olga Timofeeva Pdf

The essays collected in this volume engage in a conversation among lexicography, the culture of the book, and the canonization and commemoration of English literary figures and their works in the long eighteenth century. The source of inspiration for each piece is Allen Reddick’s scholarship on Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the great English lexicographer whose Dictionary (1755) included thousands upon thousands of illustrative quotations from the “best” authors, and, more recently, on Thomas Hollis (1720-1774), the much less well-known bibliophile who sent gifts of books by a pantheon of Whig authors to individuals and libraries in Britain, Protestant bastions in continental Europe, and America. Between the covers of Words, Books, Images readers will encounter canonical English authors of prose and poetry—Bacon, Milton, Defoe, Dryden, Pope, Richardson, Swift, Byron, Mary Shelley, and Edward Lear. But they will also become acquainted with the agents of their canonization and commemoration—the printers and publishers of Grub Street, the biographer John Aubrey, the lexicographer and biographer Johnson, the bibliophile Hollis, and the portrait painter Reynolds. No less crucially, they will meet fellow readers of then and now—women and men who peruse, poach, snip, and savour a book’s every word and image.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : European fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015051507229

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Eighteenth-century Fiction by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ute Berns,Michael Bradshaw
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754660095

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Lovell Beddoes by Ute Berns,Michael Bradshaw Pdf

Bringing together eminent scholars and emerging critics, this collection sets a new standard in Beddoes criticism. The contributors assess Beddoes's German context, read his plays in light of recent work on theatre history and gender, and revisit key areas in Beddoes's scholarship such as nineteenth-century medical theories, psychoanalytic myth, and Romantic ventriloquism. The volume makes the case for Beddoes's centrality to debates about nineteenth-century literary culture and its contexts.

Author : Raymond Stephanson,Darren Wagner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442666931

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The Secrets of Generation by Raymond Stephanson,Darren Wagner Pdf

From theories of conception and concepts of species to museum displays of male genitalia and the politics of breastmilk, The Secrets of Generation is an interdisciplinary examination of the many aspects of reproduction in the eighteenth century. Exploring the theme of generation from the perspective of histories of medicine, literature, biology, technology, and culture, this collection offers a range of cutting-edge approaches. Its twenty-four contributors, scholars from across Europe and North America, bring an international perspective to discuss reproduction in British, French, American, German, and Italian contexts. The definitive collection on eighteenth-century generation and its many milieus, The Secrets of Generation will be an essential resource for studying this topic for years to come.

Author : Paul J. Young
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754664171

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Seducing the Eighteenth-century French Reader by Paul J. Young Pdf

Considering canonical and lesser-known works by authors that include Rousseau, Sade, Bastide, Laclos, Crébillon fils, and the writers of two widely read libertine novels, Paul Young suggests that narratives of seduction function as a master plot for eighteenth-century French literature. How authors reacted to a cultural discourse that coded literature and solitary reading as dangerous, seductive practices sheds light on the history of authorship, especially the development of the novel.

Author : Ann Kathleen Doig,Felicia B. Sturzer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443861212

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Women, Gender and Disease in Eighteenth-Century England and France by Ann Kathleen Doig,Felicia B. Sturzer Pdf

Based on encyclopedias, medical journals, historical, and literary sources, this collection of interdisciplinary essays focuses on the intersection of women, gender, and disease in England and France. Diverse critical perspectives highlight contributions women made to the scientific and medical communities of the eighteenth century. In spite of obstacles encountered in spaces dominated by men, women became midwives, and wrote self-help manuals on women’s health, hygiene, and domestic economy. Excluded from universities, they nevertheless contributed significantly to such fields as anatomy, botany, medicine, and public health. Enlightenment perspectives on the nature of the female body, childbirth, diseases specific to women, “gender,” sex, “masculinity” and “femininity,” adolescence, and sexual differentiation inform close readings of English and French literary texts. Treatises by Montpellier vitalists influenced intellectuals and physicians such as Nicolas Chambon, Pierre Cabanis, Jacques-Louis Moreau de la Sarthe, Jules-Joseph Virey, and Théophile de Bordeu. They impacted the exchange of letters and production of literary works by Julie de Lespinasse, Françoise de Graffigny, Nicolas Chamfort, Mary Astell, Frances Burney, Lawrence Sterne, Eliza Haywood, and Daniel Defoe. In our post-modern era, these essays raise important questions regarding women as subjects, objects, and readers of the philosophical, medical, and historical discourses that framed the project of enlightenment.

Author : Elizabeth Cook
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804764865

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Epistolary Bodies by Elizabeth Cook Pdf

Informed by Jurgen Habermas's public sphere theory, this book studies the popular eighteenth-century genre of the epistolary narrative through readings of four works: Montesquieu's Lettres persanes (1721), Richardson's Clarissa (1749-50), Riccoboni's Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757), and Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer (1782).The author situates epistolary narratives in the contexts of eighteenth-century print culture: the rise of new models of readership and the newly influential role of the author; the model of contract derived from liberal political theory; and the techniques and aesthetics of mechanical reproduction. Epistolary authors used the genre to formulate a range of responses to a cultural anxiety about private energies and appetites, particularly those of women, as well as to legitimate their own authorial practices. Just as the social contract increasingly came to be seen as the organising instrument of public, civic relations in this period, the author argues that the epistolary novel serves to socialise and regulate the private subject as a citizen of the Republic of Letters.

Author : Allan Ingram,Leigh Wetherall Dickson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137597182

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Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture by Allan Ingram,Leigh Wetherall Dickson Pdf

This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples – ennui, sexual diseases and infectious diseases – as well as death itself, contributors explore the ways in which writing of the period placed them within a borderland between fashionability and unfashionability, relating them to current social fashions and trends. These essays also look at ways in which diseases were fashioned into bearing cultural, moral, religious and even political meaning. Works of literature are used as evidence, but also medical writings, personal correspondence and diaries. Diseases or conditions subject to scrutiny include syphilis, male impotence, plague, smallpox and consumption. Death, finally, is looked at both in terms of writers constructing meanings within death and of the fashioning of posthumous reputation.