New Essays On Maria Edgeworth

Author : Julie Nash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351152587

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New Essays on Maria Edgeworth by Julie Nash Pdf

Devoted to the varied writings of the influential novelist, children's author, and educator, this collection situates Edgeworth's writing in the context of her life and times. Combining postcolonial, historical, and gender criticism, the contributors offer fresh readings of Edgeworth's novels, stories, letters, and educational texts, including Belinda, Moral Tales, Practical Education, Helen, and The Absentee. Throughout her work, Edgeworth confronts a world whose values, while grounded in tradition and supported by slavery and colonial domination, are being challenged and ultimately changed in surprising ways by women, peasants, servants, and other voices from the margins. In discussing Edgeworth and her writing, the contributors also offer innovative perspectives on the novel and other central issues of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. The collection will be invaluable to established scholars working in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, women's studies, and children's literature, as well as to students encountering Edgeworth for the first time.

Author : Richard Lovell Edgeworth,Maria Edgeworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1803
Category : Bulls, Colloquial
ISBN : NYPL:33433074931886

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Essay on Irish Bulls by Richard Lovell Edgeworth,Maria Edgeworth Pdf

Author : Robin Runia
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031120787

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Maria Edgeworth and Abolition by Robin Runia Pdf

This Palgrave Pivot offers new readings of Maria Edgeworth’s representations of slavery. It shows how Edgeworth employed satiric technique and intertextual allusion to represent discourses of slavery and abolition as a litmus test of character – one that she invites readers to use on themselves. Over the course of her career, Edgeworth repeatedly indicted hypocritical and hyperbolic misappropriation of the sentimental rhetoric that dominated the slavery debate. This book offers new readings of canonical Edgeworth texts as well as of largely neglected works, including: Whim for Whim, “The Good Aunt”, Belinda, “The Grateful Negro”, “The Two Guardians”, and Harry and Lucy Continued. It also offers an unprecedented deep-dive into an important Romantic Era woman writer’s engagement with discourses of slavery and abolition.

Author : Heidi Kaufman,Christopher J. Fauske
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0874138787

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An Uncomfortable Authority by Heidi Kaufman,Christopher J. Fauske Pdf

In recent years, Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) has been the subject of increasing interest. A woman, a member of the landholding elite, an educator, and a daughter who lived under the historical shadow of her father, Edgeworth's life is difficult to categorize. Ironically, these very aspects of Edgeworth's identity that once excluded her from literary and historical discussions now form the basis of current interest in her life and her writing. This collection of essays builds on existing scholarship to develop new perspectives about Edgeworth's place in English and Irish history, literary history, and women's history. These essays explore the ways in which Edgeworth's entire adult life was an attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable, an attempt to justify and preserve her own privileged position even as she acknowledged the tenuousness of that position and as she sought to claim other privileges denied her. Christopher Fauske is the assistant dean in the School of Arts & Science at Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts. Heidi Kaufman is assistant Professor of English at the University of Delaware.

Author : Susan B. Egenolf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351147705

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The Art of Political Fiction in Hamilton, Edgeworth, and Owenson by Susan B. Egenolf Pdf

Even as Romantic-period authors asserted the importance of telling the unvarnished truth, novelists were deploying narrative glossing in particularly sophisticated forms. The author examines the artistic craft and political engagement of three major women novelists-Elizabeth Hamilton, Maria Edgeworth, and Sydney Owenson-whose self-conscious use of glosses facilitated their critiques of politics and society. All three writers employed devices such as prefaces and editorial notes, as well as alternative media, especially painting and drama, to comment on the narrative. The effect of these disparate media, the author argues, is to call the reader's attention away from the narrative itself. That is, such glossing or 'varnishing' creates narrative ruptures that offer the reader a glimpse of the process of fictional structuring and often reveal the novel's indebtedness to a particular historical moment. In spite, or perhaps because, of their being gendered feminine in eighteenth-century rhetorical commentary, therefore, these glosses allow women writers to participate in 'masculine' discussions outside the conventional domestic sphere. Informed by a wide range of archival texts and examples from the visual arts, and highlighting the 1798 Irish Rebellion as a major event in Irish and British Romantic writing, the author's study offers a new interdisciplinary reading of gendered and political responses to key events in the history of Romanticism.

Author : Maria Edgeworth
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : NYPL:33433082370101

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The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth by Maria Edgeworth Pdf

Edited by Augustus J.C. Hare, these letters date from 1779 (when Maria was 12) to 1820

Author : Ann R. Hawkins,Catherine S. Blackwell,E. Leigh Bonds
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317041740

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The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers by Ann R. Hawkins,Catherine S. Blackwell,E. Leigh Bonds Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers overviews critical reception for Romantic women writers from their earliest periodical reviews through the most current scholarship and directs users to avenues of future research. It is divided into two parts.The first section offers topical discussions on the status of provincial poets, on women’s engagement in children’s literature, the relation of women writers to their religious backgrounds, the historical backgrounds to women’s orientalism, and their engagement in debates on slavery and abolition.The second part surveys the life and careers of individual women – some 47 in all with sections for biography, biographical resources, works, modern editions, archival holdings, critical reception, and avenues for further research. The final sections of each essay offer further guidance for researchers, including “Signatures” under which the author published, and a “List of Works” accompanied, whenever possible, with contemporary prices and publishing formats. To facilitate research, a robust “Works Cited” includes all texts mentioned or quoted in the essay.

Author : Robin Runia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351334570

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The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship by Robin Runia Pdf

There is an unfortunate argument being made that feminist scholarship of eighteenth-century literary studies has fulfilled its potential in academic circles. The Future of Eighteenth-Century Feminist Scholarship: Beyond Recovery shows us otherwise. Each of the essays in this volume reaffirms the feminist principles that form the foundation of this area, then builds upon them by acknowledging the inevitable conflicts they or their subjects have faced and the contradictions they or their subjects have lived.

Author : Ralf Haekel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110393408

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Handbook of British Romanticism by Ralf Haekel Pdf

The Handbook of British Romanticism is a state of the art investigation of Romantic literature and theory, a field that probably changed more quickly and more fundamentally than any other traditional era in literary studies. Since the early 1980s, Romantic studies has widened its scope significantly: The canon has been expanded, hitherto ignored genres have been investigated and new topics of research explored. After these profound changes, intensified by the general crisis of literary theory since the turn of the millennium, traditional concepts such as subjectivity, imagination and the creative genius have lost their status as paradigms defining Romanticism. The handbook will feature discussions of key concepts such as history, class, gender, science and the use of media as well as a thorough account of the most central literary genres around the turn of the 19th century. The focus of the book, however, will lie on a discussion of key literary texts in the light of the most recent theoretical developments. Thus, the Handbook of British Romanticism will provide students with an introduction to Romantic literature in general and literary scholars with a discussion of innovative and groundbreaking theoretical developments.

Author : Andrew McInnes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315523163

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Wollstonecraft's Ghost by Andrew McInnes Pdf

Focusing on the ways in which women writers from across the political spectrum engage with and adapt Wollstonecraft's political philosophy in order to advocate feminist reform, Andrew McInnes explores the aftermath of Wollstonecraft's death, the controversial publication of William Godwin's memoir of his wife, and Wollstonecraft's reception in the early nineteenth century. McInnes positions Wollstonecraft within the context of the eighteenth-century female philosopher figure as a literary archetype used in plays, poetry, polemic and especially novels, to represent the thinking woman and address anxieties about political, religious, and sexual heterodoxy. He provides detailed analyses of the ways in which women writers such as Mary Hays, Elizabeth Hamilton, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth negotiate Wollstonecraft's reputation as personal, political, and sexual pariah to reformulate her radical politics for a post-revolutionary Britain in urgent need of reform. Frances Burney's The Wanderer and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, McInnes suggests, work as state-of-the-nation novels, drawing on Wollstonecraft's ideas to explore a changing England. McInnes concludes with an examination of Mary Shelley's engagement with her mother throughout her career as a novelist, arguing that Shelley gradually overcomes her anxiety over her mother's stature to address Wollstonecraft's ideas with increasing confidence.

Author : Hilary Havens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108493857

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Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Hilary Havens Pdf

Recovers and analyzes novel manuscripts and post-publication revisions to construct a new narrative about eighteenth-century authorship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1795
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025644549

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Letters for Literary Ladies. To which is added an Essay on the noble science of self-justification. [By Maria Edgeworth.] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Monika Coghen,Anna Paluchowska-Messing
Publisher : Wydawnictwo UJ
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788323371649

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Romantic Dialogues and Afterlives by Monika Coghen,Anna Paluchowska-Messing Pdf

Romantic writers often asserted their individuality, but this assertion tended to take the form of positioning themselves in relation to other authors and literary texts. Thus they implicitly acknowledged the rich network of broadly understood poetic dialogue as an important and potent source for their own creativity. When in 1816 John Keats wrote “Great spirits now on earth are sojourning,” he celebrated the originality of his contemporaries and the historical significance of his times, pointing to deep interest in “the hum of mighty works” in all the fields of human activity, to which “the nations” ought to listen. Keats’s sonnet suggests not only stimulating exchanges between poets, artists and social thinkers in the same language, but also the idea of transnational appreciation and dialogue. The volume takes up this idea and explores the dialogues of Romantic authors within the wide scope of European and American cultures. Essays by scholars from Germany, Britain, Bulgaria, Poland, Canada and the United States of America examine Romantic writers’ responses to their contemporaries, explore their dialogues with the culture of the past, and their interactions across the arts and sciences. They also scrutinize the Romantics’ far-reaching influence on later writers and artists, and thus extend the network of artistic exchange to modern times. The volume offers a rich tapestry of interconnections that span across time and space, interlace languages and cultures, and link Romantic writers and artists with their predecessors and successors across Europe and America. The essays in the collection invite the reader to join ongoing dialogues between writers and their audiences, of the past and present.

Author : Maria Edgeworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013410035

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The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth by Maria Edgeworth Pdf

Author : Maria Edgeworth
Publisher : Tredition Classics
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3842466110

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The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth by Maria Edgeworth Pdf

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.