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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:916165066
Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367444739
First published in 1984, this anthology of 18th century writings about contemporary society is divided into parts on the social order, economics, the poor and crime, with an introduction identifying some of the main social discourses of the time. They reflect the emergence of an embryonic capitalist society.
Author : Stephen Copley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000031065
Recent scholarship had emphasised the importance of a number of non-literary, economic and social debates to the understanding of Augustan Literature. Debates over the place of land, money, credit and luxury in society, as well as strands of radical thinking, are prominent throughout the period. Originally published in 1984, this anthology of eighteenth century writings about contemporary society is divided into sections on the social order, economics, the poor and crime, with a general introduction identifying some of the dominant social discourses of the period. They reflect the emergence of an embryonic capitalist society, with its challenge to feudal ties, and of a nascent bourgeois class. This collection of writings is not intended to provide material for an empirical historical account of these changes, but to give some idea of the ideological terms in which they are perceived, endorsed or contested by contemporaries; and provide a set of discursive contexts in which the imaginative literature of the period can be read. The texts themselves repay close analysis as the bearers of complex ideological positions and it is interesting to observe how, for example, Pope accommodates Shaftesbury and Mandeville in the Moral Essays. A fascinating anthology, Literature and the Social Order in Eighteenth-Century England, complete with editor’s introduction and notes on the passages, aims to suggest lines of inquiry without offering a ‘total’ reading.
Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547419952
English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century is a set of lectures in literary history by Leslie Stephen. Stephen was an English writer, critic, historian and biographer, here exploring the depths of 18th century literature and its famous authors.
Author : Miranda J. Burgess
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521773296
Burgess places authors such as Scott and Wollstonecraft in a new economic and social context.
Author : William Arthur Speck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : England
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023173359
This is a broad-ranging study on the 18th century, using a variety of contemporary literary texts as historical evidence to explain the dominant ideologies and attitudes of the time and considering the implications on policy of an increasingly news-conscious and articulate society.
Author : E. Clery
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230509047
In the Eighteenth-century, critics of capitalism denounced the growth of luxury and effeminacy; supporters applauded the increase of refinement and the improved status of women. This pioneering study explores the way the association of commerce and femininity permeated cultural production. It looks at the first use of a female author as an icon of modernity in the Athenian Mercury , and reappraises works by Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Mandeville, Defoe, Pope and Elizabeth Carter. Samuel Richardson's novels represent the culmination of the English debate, while contemporary essays by David Hume move towards a fully-fledged enlightenment theory of feminization.
Author : Mikael Alm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000415506
The interplay between clothes and social order in early modern societies is well known. Differences in dress and hierarchies of appearances coincided with and structured social hierarchies and notions of difference. However, clothes did not merely reproduce set social patterns. They were agents of change, actively used by individuals and groups to make claims and transgress formal boundaries. This was not least the case for the revolutionary decades of the late eighteenth century, the period in focus of this book. Unlike previous studies on sumptuary laws and other legal actions taken by governments and formal power holders, this book offers a broader and more everyday perspective on late eighteenth-century sartorial discourse. In 1773, there was a publicly announced prize competition on the advantages and disadvantages of a national dress in Sweden. Departing from the submitted replies, the study opens a window onto the sartorial world. Several fields of cultural history are brought together: social culture in terms of order, hierarchies, and notions of difference; sartorial culture with contemporary views on dress and moral aspects of sartorial practices; and visual culture in terms of sartorial means of making a difference and the emphasis on the necessity of a legible social order.
Author : Vivien Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134966325
This anthology gathers together various texts by and about women, ranging from `conduct' manuals to pamphlets on prostitution, from medical texts to critical definitions of women's writing, from anti-female satires to appeals for female equality. By making this material more widely available, Women in the Eighteenth Century complements the current upsurge in feminist writing on eighteenth-century literary history and offers students the opportunity to make their own rereadings of literary texts and their ideological contexts.
Author : Philip Rawlings
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134942527
Criminal biographies enjoyed enormous popularity in the Eighteenth Century: today they offer us some fascinating perspectives on the period. Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices is the first book to reproduce a number of these biographies in full. Not only do these biographies make fascinating reading, they also raise the problem of how to read them as historical documents. The author argues that instead of trying to uncover simple themes, the most revealing thing about them is the tensions around which they were constructed.
Author : Abigail Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300228106
“A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which shared reading shaped the lives and literary culture of the eighteenth century, offering new perspectives on how books have been used by their readers, and the part they have played in middle-class homes and families. Drawing on marginalia, letters and diaries, library catalogues, elocution manuals, subscription lists, and more, Williams offers fresh and fascinating insights into reading, performance, and the history of middle-class home life. “Williams’s charming pageant of anecdotes…conjures a world strikingly different from our own but surprisingly similar in many ways, a time when reading was on the rise and whole worlds sprang up around it.”—TheWashington Post
Author : David Cressy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521032469
In this exploration of the social context of reading and writing in pre-industrial England, David Cressy tackles important questions about the limits of participation in the mainstream of early modern society. To what extent could people at different social levels share in political, religious, literary and cultural life; how vital was the ability to read and write; and how widely distributed were these skills? Using a combination of humanist and social-scientific methods, Dr Cressy provides a detailed reconstruction of the profile of literacy in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, looking forward to the eighteenth century and also making comparisons with other European societies.
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1990-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780140138191
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 : Clifford Siskin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801862841
This work documents the growing professionalisation of writing in the 1700s, as well as the ways in which both nationalist and entrepreneurial impulses worked to exclude women writers from the new category of professional writer in the 19th century.
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141927725
For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.