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Author : Cynthia Wall
Release : 1998
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 139/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London by : Cynthia Wall
Download or read book The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London written by Cynthia Wall. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the literary and cultural rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of 1666.
Author : Cynthia Wall
Release : 2008-04-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 493/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century by : Cynthia Wall
Download or read book A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century written by Cynthia Wall. This book was released on 2008-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature. Contributes to current debates in the field on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, and historical versus literary perceptions of life on London streets. Searches out connections between the remarkable number of new genres that appeared in the eighteenth century. Crosses conventional disciplinary lines. Demonstrates that philosophy, history, politics and social theory both influence and are influenced by literature.
Author : Gerald M. MacLean
Release : 1995-04-27
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 662/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration by : Gerald M. MacLean
Download or read book Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration written by Gerald M. MacLean. This book was released on 1995-04-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary and cultural changes reflecting new commercial and imperial interests of Restoration Britain.
Author : Will Pritchard
Release : 2008
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 881/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Outward Appearances by : Will Pritchard
Download or read book Outward Appearances written by Will Pritchard. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elucidates early modern attitudes toward women's public display. This title presents a cultural study that draws on a range of literary and non-literary texts from 1650-1700 to revisit the sites where women appeared most prominently: the playhouse, the park, and the New Exchange (a shopping arcade in the Strand).
Author : Rivka Swenson
Release : 2015-12-30
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 793/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832 by : Rivka Swenson
Download or read book Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832 written by Rivka Swenson. This book was released on 2015-12-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Locke asked, “since all things that exist are merely particulars, how come we by general terms?” Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832 tells a story about aesthetics and politics that looks back to the 1603 Union of Crowns and James VI/I’s emigration from Edinburgh to London. Considering the emergence of British unionism alongside the literary rise of both description and “the individual,” Rivka Swenson builds on extant scholarship with original close readings that illuminate the inheritances of 1603, a date of considerable but untraced importance in Anglo-Scottish literary and cultural history whose legacies are still being negotiated today. The 1603 Union of Crowns spurred interest in exploring the aesthetic politics of unionism in relation to an alleged Scottish essence that could be manipulated to resist or support “Britishness,” even as the king’s emigration generated a legacy of gendered representations of traveling Scots and “Scotlands-left-behind.” Discussing writers such as Bacon, Defoe, Smollett, Johnson, Macpherson, Ferrier, and Scott along with lesser-known or forgotten popular authors (and ballads, transparencies, newspapers, joke books, cant dictionaries, political speeches, histories, travel narratives, engravings, material artifacts such as medals and snuffboxes), Essential Scots describes the years 1603 to 1832 as a crucial period in British history. Paradoxically, the political and cultural exploration of ideas about “unionism” in relation to a supposed “essential Scottishness” participated in the increasing prominence of both description and the “individual” in nineteenth-century Scottish literature; Swenson persuasively concludes that essential Scottishness (as both “identity” and symbolism) was refigured to mediate a national synthesis between the emergent individual and the nascent British nation—as well as the naturalized, even de-politicized, literary synthesis of particulars within putatively analogous narrative wholes.
