The English Della Cruscans And Their Time 1783 1828

Author : W.N. Hargreaves-Mawdsley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401034944

Get Book

The English Della Cruscans and Their Time, 1783–1828 by W.N. Hargreaves-Mawdsley Pdf

The English Della Cruscan School, although its nucleus was formed in 1785 by the publication of The Florence Miscellany, existed neither in the consciousness of the group which formed it nor in that of the pu blic until it was so dubbed as a term of reproach by William Gifford in his bitter satire The Baviad (1791). As has already been mentioned Merry, the leader of the group, claimed to be a member of the Real Accademia Fiorentina which had swallowed up the Crusca and the two other Floren tine Academies in 1783; but it was not until the summer of 1787, when during his lingering voyage of return to England he began to send his contributions signed "Della Crusca" to the World, that the name became publicly known or even employed by his friends. Merry uses it of himself in a letter to Mrs. Piozzi after his arrival in England, on 27th February, 1788. 1 His public avowal of his romantic yearning after the suppressed Accademia della Crusca appears on the title-page of his Paulina (1787); for whereas on the title-page of Robert Manners (1785) he for the first time calls himself "A Member of the Royal Academy of Florence," the author of Paulina, "Robert Merry, Esq.

Author : William Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1967-07-31
Category : Della Cruscans (English writers)
ISBN : 9401034958

Get Book

The English Della Cruscans and their time, 1783-1828 by William Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley Pdf

Author : Judith Pascoe
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Authors and readers
ISBN : 0801433045

Get Book

Romantic Theatricality by Judith Pascoe Pdf

Pascoe adduces the theatrical posturing of the Della Cruscan poets, the staginess of the Marie Antoinette depicted in women's poetry, and the histrionic maneuverings of participants in the 1794 treason trials. Such public events as the trials also linked the newly powerful role of female theatrical spectator to that of political spectator. New forms of self-representation and dramatization arose as a result of that synthesis.

Author : Claire Knowles
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031372674

Get Book

Della Cruscan Poetry, Women and the Fashionable Newspaper by Claire Knowles Pdf

This book explores Della Cruscan poetry in the late eighteenth-century literary scene. A sociable, ornate, and deeply theatrical type of poetry, Della Cruscanism was associated with writers like Robert Merry, Mary Robinson, and Hannah Cowley. While Merry is the poet most commonly associated with the Della Cruscan school, this book argues that Della Cruscanism was a movement dominated by female poets and that this was one of the key reasons for the later disavowal and downgrading of its poetic accomplishments. It offers a close examination of these women writers and their role in shaping the poetic culture of the fashionable newspaper. In doing so, this study offers the first account of the feminization of the fashionable newspaper and of popular literary culture in the final years of the eighteenth century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401202312

Get Book

British Romanticism and Italian Literature by Anonim Pdf

Drawing on a long-standing tradition of fictional images, British writers of the Romantic period defined and constructed Italy as a land that naturally invites inscription and description. In their works, Italy is a cultural geography so heavily overwritten with discourse that it becomes the natural recipient of further fictional transformations. If critics have frequently attended to this figurative complex and its related Italophilia, what seems to have been left relatively unexplored is the fact that these representations were paralleled and sustained by intense scholarly activities. This volume specifically addresses Romantic-period scholarship about Italian literature, history, and culture under the interconnected rubrics of ‘translating’, ‘reviewing’, and ‘rewriting’. The essays in this book consider this rich field of scholarly activity in order to redraw its contours and examine its connections with the fictional images of Italy and the general fascination with this land and its civilization that are a crucial component of British culture between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Author : D. Worrall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230801417

Get Book

The Politics of Romantic Theatricality, 1787-1832 by D. Worrall Pdf

This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene.

Author : J. Labbe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230596764

Get Book

The Romantic Paradox by J. Labbe Pdf

Why are there so few 'happily ever afters' in the Romantic-period verse romance? Why do so many poets utilise the romance and its parts to such devastating effect? Why is gender so often the first victim? The Romantic Paradox investigates the prevalence of death in the poetic romances of the Della Cruscans, Coleridge, Keats, Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Letitia Landon, and Byron, and posits that understanding the romance and its violent tendencies is vital to understanding Romanticism itself.

Author : Evan Gottlieb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317065883

Get Book

Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830 by Evan Gottlieb Pdf

Revising traditional 'rise of the nation-state' narratives, this collection explores the development of and interactions among various forms of local, national, and transnational identities and affiliations during the long eighteenth century. By treating place as historically contingent and socially constructed, this volume examines how Britons experienced and related to a landscape altered by agricultural and industrial modernization, political and religious reform, migration, and the building of nascent overseas empires. In mapping the literary and cultural geographies of the long eighteenth century, the volume poses three challenges to common critical assumptions about the relationships among genre, place, and periodization. First, it questions the novel’s exclusive hold on the imagining of national communities by examining how poetry, drama, travel-writing, and various forms of prose fiction each negotiated the relationships between the local, national, and global in distinct ways. Second, it demonstrates how viewing the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century through a broadly conceived lens of place brings to the foreground authors typically considered 'minor' when seen through more traditional aesthetic, cultural, or theoretical optics. Finally, it contextualizes Romanticism’s long-standing associations with the local and the particular, suggesting that literary localism did not originate in the Romantic era, but instead emerged from previous literary and cultural explorations of space and place. Taken together, the essays work to displace the nation-state as a central category of literary and cultural analysis in eighteenth-century studies.

Author : M. Davis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230509382

Get Book

Radicalism and Revolution in Britain 1775-1848 by M. Davis Pdf

The spectre of revolution and the nature of radicalism in Britain from the late eighteenth century through to the age of the Chartists has for some time engaged the interest of scholars and been the topic of much debate. This book honours one of the subject's most renowned and respected historians, Professor Malcolm I. Thomis. In a collection distinguished by its formidable range of contributors, a series of stimulating essays explores and re-examines the threats and ideas of revolution and the byzantine networks and character of British radical culture in the turbulent and intriguing years between 1775 and 1848.

Author : Rolf P. Lessenich
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9783899719864

Get Book

Neoclassical Satire and the Romantic School 1780-1830 by Rolf P. Lessenich Pdf

Romanticism was not only heterogeneous and disunited. It also had to face the hostile counter-movement of the Enlightenment and Augustan Neoclassicism, still going strong at the time of and in the decades following the French Revolution due to support from the ruling Establishment (the ancien regime of the Crown and Church of England). Neoclassicists regarded Romanticism as a heteretical amalgam of dissenting new schools, which threatened the monopoly of the Classical Tradition. The acrimonious debates in aesthetics and politics were conducted with the traditional strategies of the classical ars disputandi on both sides. Under the duress of the heaviest satirical attacks, Romanticism began gradually to see itself as one movement, giving rise to the problematic opposition of Classical and Romantic. The construction of this rough divide, however, was indispensable for the clarification of different positions in the hubbub of conflicting voices, and has also proved critical in literary and cultural studies which cannot do without such subsumptions. The Classical Tradition, encompassing Christianity, emerges as an ongoing event from Greek and Latin antiquity running through to our time.

Author : David Simpson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226922355

Get Book

Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger by David Simpson Pdf

In our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger—the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor—carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are “different” has become particularly strong. But arguments about the stranger are not unique to our time. In Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger, David Simpson locates the figure of the stranger and the rhetoric of strangeness in romanticism and places them in a tradition that extends from antiquity to today. Simpson shows that debates about strangers loomed large in the French Republic of the 1790s, resulting in heated discourse that weighed who was to be welcomed and who was to be proscribed as dangerous. Placing this debate in the context of classical, biblical, and other later writings, he identifies a persistent difficulty in controlling the play between the despised and the desired. He examines the stranger as found in the works of Coleridge, Austen, Scott, and Southey, as well as in depictions of the betrayals of hospitality in the literature of slavery and exploration—as in Mungo Park's Travels and Stedman's Narrative—and portrayals of strange women in de Staël, Rousseau, and Burney. Contributing to a rich strain of thinking about the stranger that includes interventions by Ricoeur and Derrida, Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger reveals the complex history of encounters with alien figures and our continued struggles with romantic concerns about the unknown.

Author : Michael Gamer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107158856

Get Book

Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry by Michael Gamer Pdf

Michael Gamer explodes the myth of the unworldly Romantic poet, showing writers' interest in public presence, and profit and loss.

Author : Moira Ferguson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317634874

Get Book

Subject to Others (Routledge Revivals) by Moira Ferguson Pdf

First published in 1992, Subject to Others considers the intersection between late seventeenth- to early nineteenth-century British female writers and the colonial debate surrounding slavery and abolition. Beginning with an overview that sets the discussion in context, Moira Ferguson then chronicles writings by Anglo-Saxon women and one African-Caribbean ex-slave woman, from between 1670 and 1834, on the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of slaves. Through studying the writings of around thirty women in total, Ferguson concludes that white British women, as a result of their class position, religious affiliation and evolving conceptions of sexual difference, constructed a colonial discourse about Africans in general and slaves in particular. Crucially, the feminist propensity to align with anti-slavery activism helped to secure the political self-liberation of white British women. A fascinating and detailed text, this volume will be of particular interest to undergraduate students researching colonial British female writers, early feminist discourse, and the anti-slavery debate.

Author : Paula R. Feldman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0801866405

Get Book

British Women Poets of the Romantic Era by Paula R. Feldman Pdf

This groundbreaking volume not only documents the richness of their literary contributions but changes our thinking about the poetry of the English Romantic period.

Author : Colin Wells
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812294521

Get Book

Poetry Wars by Colin Wells Pdf

During America's founding period, poets and balladeers engaged in a series of literary "wars" against political leaders, journalists, and each other, all in the name of determining the political course of the new nation. Political poems and songs appeared regularly in newspapers (and as pamphlets and broadsides), commenting on political issues and controversies and satirizing leaders like Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Drawing on hundreds of individual poems—including many that are frequently overlooked—Poetry Wars reconstructs the world of literary-political struggle as it unfolded between the Stamp Act crisis and the War of 1812. Colin Wells argues that political verse from this period was a unique literary form that derived its cultural importance from its capacity to respond to, and contest the meaning of, other printed texts—from official documents and political speeches to newspaper articles and rival political poems. First arising during the Revolution as a strategy for subverting the authority of royal proclamations and congressional declarations, poetic warfare became a ubiquitous part of early national print culture. Poets representing the emerging Federalist and Republican parties sought to wrest control of political narratives unfolding in the press by engaging in literary battles. Tracing the parallel histories of the first party system and the rise and eventual decline of political verse, Poetry Wars shows how poetic warfare lent urgency to policy debates and contributed to a dynamic in which partisans came to regard each other as threats to the republic's survival. Breathing new life into this episode of literary-political history, Wells offers detailed interpretations of scores of individual poems, references hundreds of others, and identifies numerous terms and tactics of the period's verse warfare.