Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13: 9781390902785

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Excerpt from Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 1 of 3 E highest ambition of an editor should be to pass un noticed. But an editor of these Essays gives too many openings for censure to be warranted in such an expectation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 3 of 5 (Classic Reprint)

Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 3 of 5 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-12

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9780428941314

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Excerpt from Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 3 of 5 The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England. A New Edition. By basil montagu, Esq. 16 vols., 8vc. London: 1825 - 1834. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 3 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 3 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-23

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 9781527608405

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Excerpt from Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 3 of 3 William was an infant when the civil war broke out; and, while he was still in his rudiments, a Presbyterian hierarchy and a republican government were established on the ruins of the ancient church and throne.01d Mr. Wycherley was attached to the royal cause, and was not disposed to intrust the education of his heir to the solemn Puritans who now ruled the universities and public schools. Accordine the young gentleman was sent at dilceu to France. He resided some time in the neighbourhood of the Duke of Montausier, l chief of one of the noblest families of Touraine. The Duke's wife, a daughter of the house of Rambouillet, was a finished specimen of those talents and ac complishments for which her race was celebrated. The young foreigner was introduced to the splendid circle which surrounded the duchess, and there he appears to have learned some good and some evil. In a few years he returned to his country a fine gentleman and a Papist. His conversion, it may safely be afirmed, was the effect not of any strong impression on his understanding, or feelings, but partly of intercourse with agreeable society in which the Church of Rome was the fashion, and partly of that aversion to Calvinistic austerities which was then almost universal among young Englishmen of parts spirit, and which, at one time, seemed likely to make one half of them Catholics, and the other half Atheists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Frances Burney’s “Evelina”

Frances Burney’s “Evelina”

Author: Svetlana Kochkina

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-04-12

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 3031177975

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Evelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public. Tracing its publication history through 174 editions, adaptations, and reprints, many of them newly discovered and identified, this book demonstrates how the novel’s material embodiment in the form of the printed book has been reshaped by its publishers, recasting its content for new generations of readers. Four main chapters vividly describe how during 240 years, Evelina, a popular novel of manners, metamorphosed without any significant alterations to its text into a Regency “rambling” text, a romantic novel for “lecteurs délicats,” a cheap imprint for circulating libraries, a yellow-back, a book with a certain aesthetic cachet, a Christmas gift-book, finally becoming an integral part of the established literary canon in annotated scholarly editions. This book also focuses on the remodelling and transformation of the paratext in this novel, written by a woman author, by the heavily male-dominated publishing industry. Shorter Entr’acte sections discuss and describe alterations in the forms of Burney’s name and the title of her work, the omission and renaming of her authorial prefaces, and the redeployment of the publisher’s prefatorial apparatus to support particular editions throughout almost two-and-a-half centuries of the novel’s existence. Illustrated with reproductions of covers, frontispieces, and title pages, the book also provides an illuminating insight into the role of Evelina’s visual representation in its history as a marketable commodity, highlighting the existence of editions targeting various segments of the book market: from the upper-middle-class to mass-readership. The first comprehensive and fully updated bibliography of English and translated editions, adaptations, and reprints of Evelina published in 13 languages and scripts appears in an appendix.