Eighteenth Century English

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139489591

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Eighteenth-Century English by Raymond Hickey Pdf

The eighteenth century was a key period in the development of the English language, in which the modern standard emerged and many dictionaries and grammars first appeared. This book is divided into thematic sections which deal with issues central to English in the eighteenth century. These include linguistic ideology and the grammatical tradition, the contribution of women to the writing of grammars, the interactions of writers at this time and how politeness was encoded in language, including that on a regional level. The contributions also discuss how language was seen and discussed in public and how grammarians, lexicographers, journalists, pamphleteers and publishers judged on-going change. The novel insights offered in this book extend our knowledge of the English language at the onset of the modern period.

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780140138191

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English Society in the 18th Century by Roy Porter Pdf

This text offers a picture of eighteenth-century England. It ranges from princes to paupers, and from the metropolis to smallest hamlet. It offers vivid images of the thought, politics, work and recreation of Englishmen at his time.

Author : Douglas Hay,Nicholas Rogers
Publisher : Oxford ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0192891944

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Eighteenth-century English Society by Douglas Hay,Nicholas Rogers Pdf

The period from 1688-1820 was marked throughout with riots and rebellions, seditions and strikes, as the lower classes rebelled against the state bias towards the interests of higher social groups. Drawing on recent work on demography, labor, and law, this readable history of the period focuses on the experience of the eighty percent of the population who made up England's "lower orders." Hay and Rogers provide fresh insights into food shortages, changes in poor relief, use of the criminal law, and the shifts in social power caused by industrialization that would bring about the birth of working-class radicalism.

Author : John Richetti
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119082125

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A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature by John Richetti Pdf

A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is a lively exploration of one of the most diverse and innovative periods in literary history. Capturing the richness and excitement of the era, this book provides extensive coverage of major authors, poets, dramatists, and journalists of the period, such as Dryden, Pope and Swift, while also exploring the works of important writers who have received less attention by modern scholars, such as Matthew Prior and Charles Churchill. Uniquely, the book also discusses noncanonical, working-class writers and demotic works of the era. During the eighteenth-century, Britain experienced vast social, political, economic, and existential changes, greatly influencing the literary world. The major forms of verse, poetry, fiction and non-fiction, experimental works, drama, and political prose from writers such as Montagu, Finch, Johnson, Goldsmith and Cowper, are discussed here in relation to their historical context. A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is essential reading for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of English literature. Topics covered include: Verse in the early 18th century, from Pope, Gay, and Swift to Addison, Defoe, Montagu, and Finch Poetry from the mid- to late-century, highlighting the works of Johnson, Gray, Collins, Smart, Goldsmith, and Cowper among others, as well as women and working-class poets Prose Fiction in the early and 18th century, including Behn, Haywood, Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett The novel past mid-century, including experimental works by Johnson, Sterne, Mackenzie, Walpole, Goldsmith, and Burney Non-fiction prose, including political and polemical prose 18th century drama

Author : John Goodridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521433815

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Rural Life in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry by John Goodridge Pdf

Recent research into a self-taught tradition of English rural poetry has begun to offer a radically new dimension to our view of the role of poetry in the literary culture of the eighteenth century. In this important new study John Goodridge offers a detailed reading of key rural poems of the period, examines the ways in which eighteenth-century poets adapted Virgilian Georgic models, and reveals an illuminating link between rural poetry and agricultural and folkloric developments. Goodridge compares poetic accounts of rural labour by James Thomson, Stephen Duck, and Mary Collier, and makes a close analysis of one of the largely forgotten didactic epics of the eighteenth century, John Dyer's The Fleece. Through an exploration of the purpose of rural poetry and how it relates to the real world, Goodridge breaks through the often brittle surface of eighteenth-century poetry, to show how it reflects the ideologies and realities of contemporary life.

Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Philosophy, English
ISBN : PSU:000004528227

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History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen Pdf

Author : Paul Langford
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0192853996

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Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Langford Pdf

Part of The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, this book spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted parliamentary reform.

Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : CUB:P202271008013

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The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray Pdf

Author : David Fairer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317892878

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English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 by David Fairer Pdf

In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer’s book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional understanding of the subject. This book seeks to question some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. In doing so Fairer offers a fresh and detailed look at a wide range of material.

Author : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade,Wim van der Wurff
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039116606

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Current Issues in Late Modern English by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade,Wim van der Wurff Pdf

Papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Late Modern English, held at the University of Leiden in 2007.

Author : Ariel Hessayon,David Finnegan
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 075466905X

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Varieties of Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-century English Radicalism in Context by Ariel Hessayon,David Finnegan Pdf

The essays in this collection explore significant questions regarding the terms 'radical' and 'radicalism' in early modern England. They investigate whether we can speak of a radical tradition, and whether radicalism was a local, national or transnational phenomenon. It looks at the role of migration and exchange of ideas, images and texts in the history of supposedly radical events, ideologies and movements (or moments). Offering a timely reassessment of the subject, it reflects the latest research on seventeenth-century British and Irish radicalism.

Author : John Brewer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135912369

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The Pleasures of the Imagination by John Brewer Pdf

The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens. In 1660, there were few professional authors, musicians and painters, no public concert series, galleries, newspaper critics or reviews. By the dawn of the nineteenth century they were all aprt of the cultural life of the nation. John Brewer's enthralling book explains how this happened and recreates the world in which the great works of English eighteenth-century art were made. Its purpose is to show how literature, painting, music and the theatre were communicated to a public increasingly avid for them. It explores the alleys and garrets of Grub Street, rummages the shelves of bookshops and libraries, peers through printsellers' shop windows and into artists' studios, and slips behind the scenes at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. It takes us out of Gay and Boswell's London to visit the debating clubs, poetry circles, ballrooms, concert halls, music festivals, theatres and assemblies that made the culture of English provincial towns, and shows us how the national landscape became one of Britain's greatest cultural treasures. It reveals to us a picture of English artistic and literary life in the eighteenth century less familiar, but more suprising, more various and more convincing than any we have seen before.

Author : Kirstin Olsen
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066050967

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Daily Life in 18th-Century England by Kirstin Olsen Pdf

Describes various aspects of life in eighteenth-century England, discussing politics, class and race, family, housing, clothing, work and wages, education, food and drink, behavior, hygiene, and other topics.

Author : Hal Gladfelder
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801866081

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Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England by Hal Gladfelder Pdf

These narratives of violence, theft, disruptive sexuality, and rebellion compelled their readers to sort through fragmentary or contested evidence, anticipating the openness to discordant meanings and discrepant points of view which characterize the later fictions of Defoe and Fielding."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : James Sambrook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317893240

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The Eighteenth Century by James Sambrook Pdf

This is an impressive and lucid survey of eighteenth-century intellectual life, providing a real sense of the complexity of the age and of the cultural and intellectual climate in which imaginative literature flourished. It reflects on some of the dominant themes of the period, arguing against such labels as 'Augustan Age', 'Age of Enlightenment' and 'Age of Reason', which have been attached to the eighteenth-century by critics and historians.