Print Visuality And Gender In Eighteenth Century Satire

Author : Katherine Mannheimer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Katie Mannheimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Authors and readers
ISBN : 0203815629

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Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-century Satire by Katie Mannheimer Pdf

"This study interprets eighteenth-century satire's famous typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment's "ocularcentric" epistemological paradigms, and to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly "visual"--As the first to pay widespread attention to format, layout, and visual advertising strategies. The Augustans were convinced of the ability of their texts to function as a kind of optical machinery rivaling that of the New Science, enhancing readers' physical and moral vision, while at the same time they feared the dangers of an overly-scrutinizing gaze as one that might undermine the viewer's natural faculty for candor, sympathy, delight, and desire. Mannheimer studies this distrust of the empirical gaze, and its applications in print, to the inherent gender politics and broader ethical concerns of ocularcentrism in the works of Montagu, Swift, Pope, and Fielding. These writers sought to ensure that print itself never became either a mere tool of, or an inert object for, the 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:794904581

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

Author : Evan R. Davis,Nicholas D. Nace
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603293815

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Teaching Modern British and American Satire by Evan R. Davis,Nicholas D. Nace Pdf

This volume addresses the teaching of satire written in English over the past three hundred years. For instructors covering current satire, it suggests ways to enrich students' understanding of voice, irony, and rhetoric and to explore the questions of how to define satire and how to determine what its ultimate aims are. For instructors teaching older satire, it demonstrates ways to help students gain knowledge of historical context, medium, and audience, while addressing more specific literary questions of technique and form. Readers will discover ways to introduce students to authors such as Swift and Twain, to techniques such as parody and verbal irony, and to the difficult subject of satire's offensiveness and elitism. This volume also helps teachers of a wide variety of courses, from composition to gateway courses and surveys, think about how to use modern satire in conceiving and structuring them.

Author : Susan Broomhall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317554103

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Spaces for Feeling by Susan Broomhall Pdf

Spaces for Feeling explores how English and Scottish people experienced sociabilities and socialities from 1650 to 1850, and investigates their operation through emotional practices and particular spaces. The collection highlights the forms, practices, and memberships of these varied spaces for feeling in this two hundred year period and charts the shifting conceptualisations of emotions that underpinned them. The authors employ historical, literary, and visual history approaches to analyse a series of literary and art works, emerging forms of print media such as pamphlet propaganda, newspapers, and periodicals, and familial and personal sources such as letters, in order to tease out how particular communities were shaped and cohered through distinct emotional practices in specific spaces of feeling. This collection studies the function of emotions in group formations in Britain during a period that has attracted widespread scholarly interest in the creation and meaning of sociabilities in particular. From clubs and societies to families and households, essays here examine how emotional practices could sustain particular associations, create new social communities and disrupt the capacity of a specific cohort to operate successfully. This timely collection will be essential reading for students and scholars of the history of emotions.

Author : Daniel Diez Couch
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812298406

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American Fragments by Daniel Diez Couch Pdf

Between the independence of the colonies and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous number of literary texts called "fragments."American Fragments argues that this archive of deliberately unfinished writing reimagined the place of marginalized individuals in a country that was itself still unfinished.

Author : Marcie Frank
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684481675

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The Novel Stage by Marcie Frank Pdf

"The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen traces the novel's relation to the theater over the course of the long eighteenth century, arguing that the familiar account of the novel as 'new' and distinct from other literary genres risks distorting a true reckoning of the form by failing to engage with the borrowings and departures from other more familiar genres, particularly drama. The Novel Stage traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel. These genres were shared across print and performance, media that were not construed as opposites in a world in which individual silent reading took place beside playgoing, play-reading, amateur theatricals, and sociable reading aloud. The book thus expands an overly narrow conception of the novel as the genre of realism or domesticity whose highest achievement is its representation of characters' mental lives by describing the influence of the stage and its genres. Beginning in the later 1600s with Aphra Behn, The Novel Stage concludes with a chapter on some novelists of the Romantic period and a coda about Victorian novels. The Novel Stage's account of the novel provides an enriched, because more specific, sense of its formal accomplishments that drew on this ensemble of cultural forms and turns that lens back onto drama"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Laura Mandell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118274552

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Breaking the Book by Laura Mandell Pdf

Breaking the Book is a manifesto on the cognitive consequences and emotional effects of human interactions with physical books that reveals why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to 'digital' humanities. Explores the reasons why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to 'digital humanities' Reveals facets of book history, offering it as an example of how different media shape our modes of thinking and feeling Gathers together the most important book history and literary criticism concerning the hundred years leading up to the early 19th-century emergence of mass print culture Predicts effects of the digital revolution on disciplinarity, expertise, and the institutional restructuring of the humanities

Author : Clark Lawlor,Andrew Mangham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108420860

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Literature and Medicine by Clark Lawlor,Andrew Mangham Pdf

Offers an authoritative account of literature and medicine at a vital point in their emergence during the eighteenth century.

Author : Daniel Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108840958

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Reading Swift's Poetry by Daniel Cook Pdf

This book explicates Jonathan Swift's poetry, reaffirming its prominence in competing literary traditions.

Author : Amanda Hiner,Elizabeth Tasker Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108837361

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British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century by Amanda Hiner,Elizabeth Tasker Davis Pdf

Featuring cutting-edge essays by leading scholars, this collection formulates a new feminist theory of eighteenth-century women's satire.

Author : Przemysław Uściński
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783631681220

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Parody, Scriblerian Wit and the Rise of the Novel by Przemysław Uściński Pdf

Parody was a crucial technique for the satirists and novelists associated with the Scriblerus Club. The great eighteenth-century wits (Alexander Pope, John Gay, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne) often explored the limits of the ugly, the droll, the grotesque and the insane by mocking, distorting and deconstructing multiple discourses, genres, modes and methods of representation. This book traces the continuity and difference in parodic textuality from Pope to Sterne. It focuses on polyphony, intertextuality and deconstruction in parodic genres and examines the uses of parody in such texts as «The Beggar’s Opera», «The Dunciad», «Joseph Andrews» and «Tristram Shandy». The book demonstrates how parody helped the modern novel to emerge as a critical and artistically self-conscious form.

Author : Jo Willett
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526779397

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The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu by Jo Willett Pdf

The first biography to look at the early feminist and radical Mary Wortley Montagu, who successfully introduced Britain to the inoculation against the smallpox virus. 300 years ago, in April 1721, a smallpox epidemic was raging in England. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu knew that she could save her 3-year-old daughter using the process of inoculation. She had witnessed this at first hand in Turkey, while she was living there as the wife of the British ambassador. She also knew that by inoculating - making her daughter the first person protected in the West - she would face opposition from doctors, politicians and clerics. Her courageous action eventually led to the eradication of smallpox and the prevention of millions of deaths. But Mary was more than a scientific campaigner. She mixed with the greatest politicians, writers, artists and thinkers of her day. She was also an important early feminist, writing powerfully and provocatively about the position of women. She was best friends with the poet Alexander Pope. They collaborated on a series of poems, which made her into a household name, an ‘It Girl.' But their friendship turned sour and he used his pen to vilify her publicly. Aristocratic by birth, Mary chose to elope with Edward Wortley Montagu, whom she knew she did not love, so as to avoid being forced into marrying someone else. In middle age, her marriage stale, she fell for someone young enough to be her son - and, unknown to her, bisexual. She set off on a new life with him abroad. When this relationship failed, she stayed on in Europe, narrowly escaping the coercive control of an Italian con man. After twenty-two years abroad, she returned home to London to die. The son-in-law she had dismissed as a young man had meanwhile become Prime Minister.

Author : Cindy McCreery
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0199267561

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The Satirical Gaze by Cindy McCreery Pdf

This is the first scholarly study to focus on satirical prints of women in the late eighteenth century. This was the golden age of graphic satire: thousands of prints were published, and they were viewed by nearly all sections of the population. These prints both reflected and sought to shape contemporary debate about the role of women in society. Cindy McCreery's study examines the beliefs and prejudices of Georgian England which they revealed.

Author : Jack Lynch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191019692

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The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800 by Jack Lynch Pdf

In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, forty-four authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity—serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether published in deluxe editions or sung on the streets. The contributors discuss poems in social contexts, poetic identities, poetic subjects, poetic form, poetic genres, poetic devices, and criticism. Even experts in eighteenth-century poetry will see familiar poems from new angles, and all readers will encounter poems they've never read before. The book is not a chronologically organized literary history, nor an encyclopaedia, nor a collection of thematically related essays; rather it is an attempt to provide a systematic overview of these poetic works, and to restore it to a position of centrality in modern criticism.