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Author : Ingrid Horrocks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1316866610
A history of the writing of mobility in the Romantic period, through the work of major women writers.
Author : Ingrid Horrocks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316864364
In the last days of the Scandinavian journey that would become the basis of her great post-Revolutionary travel book, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote, 'I am weary of travelling - yet seem to have no home - no resting place to look to - I am strangely cast off'. From this starting point, Ingrid Horrocks reveals the significance of representations of women wanderers in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, particularly in the work of women writers. She follows gendered, frequently reluctant wanderers beyond travel narratives into poetry, gothic romances, and sentimental novels, and places them within a long history of uses of the more traditional literary figure of the male wanderer. Drawing out the relationship between mobility and affect, and illuminating textual forms of wandering, Horrocks shows how paying attention to the figure of the woman wanderer sheds new light on women and travel, and alters assumptions about mobility's connection with freedom.
Author : Ingrid Horrocks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107182233
A history of the writing of mobility in the Romantic period, through the work of major women writers.
Author : Anne M. Thell
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611488289
The central claim of Minds in Motion is that British travel writing of the long eighteenth century functions as an epistemological playing field where authors test empiricist models of engagement with the world while simultaneously seeking out the role of the self and the imagination in producing knowledge. Whether exploring the relationship between the senses and the mind, the narrative viability of experimental detachment, or the literary dynamics of virtual witnessing, eighteenth-century travel authors persistently confront their positionality and raise difficult questions about the nature and value of first-hand experience. In one way or another, they also complicate empiricist ideals by exploring the limits of individual perception and the role of the imagination in generating and relating knowledge. While the genre is often viewed as either numbingly documentary or non-literary and commercial, travel literature actually operates at the front line of the period’s intellectual developments, illustrating both how individual writers grapple with philosophical ideals and how these ideals filter into the lives of ordinary people. Indeed, travel literature directly engages the scientific and philosophical concerns of the period, while it is also widely, avidly read; as such, it offers models for cognitive and rhetorical practices that are evaluated and either embraced or rejected by readers (in a process of identification not unlike that which occurs in early English fiction). Moreover, because eighteenth-century travel literature is so crucial to the development of so many fields—from botany to the novel—it illustrates vividly the divisive energies of discipline and genre formation while also archiving the shared aims and methods of what will become discrete fields of study. Travelogues as diverse as Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World (1666) and Samuel Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) reveal the epistemological circuitry of the eighteenth century and historicize the absorption of the philosophical tendencies that have come to define modernity.
Author : Adriana Craciun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139436335
Incarnations of fatal women, or femmes fatales, recur throughout the works of women writers in the Romantic period. Adriana Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of femmes fatales or fatal women played an important role in the development of Romantic women's poetic identities and informed their exploration of issues surrounding the body, sexuality and politics. Craciun covers a wide range of writers and genres from the 1790s through the 1830s. She discusses the work of well-known figures including Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as lesser-known writers like Anne Bannerman. By examining women writers' fatal women in historical, political and medical contexts, Craciun uncovers a far-ranging debate on sexual difference. She also engages with current research on the history of the body and sexuality, providing an important historical precedent for modern feminist theory's ongoing dilemma regarding the status of 'woman' as a sex.
Author : John Richetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521429455
In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time.
Author : Chad Meister,Paul K. Moser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107055384
This Companion offers a state-of-the-art contribution by providing critical analyses of and creative insights on the problem of evil.
Author : Misty Krueger
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684482986
This important new collection explores representations of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers across a range of historical and literary works. While at one time transatlantic studies concentrated predominantly on men’s travels, this volume highlights the resilience of women who ventured voluntarily and by force across the Atlantic—some seeking mobility, adventure, knowledge, wealth, and freedom, and others surviving subjugation, capture, and enslavement. The essays gathered here concern themselves with the fictional and the historical, national and geographic location, racial and ethnic identities, and the configuration of the transatlantic world in increasingly taught texts such as The Female American and The Woman of Colour, as well as less familiar material such as Merian’s writing on the insects of Surinam and Falconbridge’s travels to Sierra Leone. Intersectional in its approach, and with an afterword by Eve Tavor Bannet, this essential collection will prove indispensable as it provides fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts and women’s travel therein across the long eighteenth century.
Author : Ian Haywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107044210
A lively, richly illustrated study of iconic caricatures, showing the interrelationship between art, satire and politics in the Romantic period.
Author : Elizabeth A. Bohls
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107079342
This book analyzes representations of the places of British slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and Britain - in writings by planters, slaves and travellers.
Author : Jon Mee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107133617
Reveals the development of the idea of 'the people' through print and publicity in 1790s London. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author : Jennie Batchelor,Gillian Dow
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137543820
This book is about mapping the future of eighteenth-century women’s writing and feminist literary history, in an academic culture that is not shy of declaring their obsolescence. It asks: what can or should unite us as scholars devoted to the recovery and study of women’s literary history in an era of big data, on the one hand, and ever more narrowly defined specialization, on the other? Leading scholars from the UK and US answer this question in thought-provoking, cross-disciplinary and often polemical essays. Contributors attend to the achievements of eighteenth-century women writers and the scholars who have devoted their lives to them, and map new directions for the advancement of research in the area. They collectively argue that eighteenth-century women’s literary history has a future, and that feminism was, and always should be, at its heart. Featuring a Preface by Isobel Grundy, and a Postscript by Cora Kaplan.
Author : David Aram Kaiser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139425773
This ambitious study, first published in 1999, argues that our conception of the aesthetic sphere emerged during the era of British and German Romanticism from conflicts between competing models of the liberal state and the cultural nation. The aesthetic sphere is thus centrally connected to 'aesthetic statism', which is the theoretical project of reconciling conflicts in the political sphere by appealing to the unity of the symbol. David Kaiser traces the trajectory of aesthetic statism from Schiller and Coleridge, through Arnold, Mill and Ruskin, to Adorno and Habermas. He analyses how the concept of aesthetic autonomy shifts from being a supplement to the political sphere to an end in itself; this shift lies behind the problems that contemporary literary theory has faced in its attempts to connect the aesthetic and political spheres. Finally, he suggests that we rethink the aesthetic sphere in order to regain that connection.
Author : Gigi Adair,Lenka Filipova
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781622738700
This edited collection poses crucial questions about the relationship between gender and genre in travel writing, asking how gender shapes formal and thematic approaches to the various generic forms employed to represent and recreate travel. While the question of the genre of travel writing has often been debated (is it a genre, a hybrid genre, a sub-genre of autobiography?), and recent years have been much attention to travel writing and gender, these have rarely been combined. This book sheds light on how the gendered nature of writing and reading about travel affect the genre choices and strategies of writers, as well as the way in which travel writing is received. It reconsiders traditional and frequently studied forms of travel writing, both European and non-European. In addition, it pursues questions about the connections between travel writing and other genres, such as the novel and films, minor forms including journalism and blogging, and new sub-genres such as the ‘new nature writing’; focusing in particular on the political ramifications of genre in travel writing. The collection is international in focus with discussions of works by authors from Europe, Asia, Australia, and both North and South America; consequently, it will be of great interest to scholars and historians in those regions.
Author : Linda Van Netten Blimke
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684484058
By examining four sentimental travelogues written by British women travelers during the American and French Revolutions, Political Affairs of the Heart argues that this genre, by combining eyewitness authority with the language of sensibility, constitutes a significant site of women's engagement in national and gender politics.