Familiar Letters on Important Occasions
Author: Samuel Richardson
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Published: 1741
Total Pages: 332
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Author: Samuel Richardson
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Published: 1741
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susan M. Fitzmaurice
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781588111869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this method through case studies that illuminate how modern pragmatic theory may be applied to distant speech communities in both history and culture in order to reveal how speakers understand one another and how they exploit intended and unintended meanings for their own communicative ends. The analysis demonstrates the application of pragmatic theory (including speech act theory, deixis, politeness, implicature, and relevance theory) to the study of historical, literary and fictional letters from extended correspondences, producing an historically informed, richly situated account of the meanings and interpretations of those letters that a close reading affords. This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of the English language, historical pragmatics, discourse analysis, as well as to social and cultural historians, and literary critics.
Author: Joseph Priestley
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Published: 1790
Total Pages: 446
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary Davys
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-07-11
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0813147751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Reform'd Coquette (1724) tells the story of Amoranda, a good but flighty young woman whose tendency toward careless behavior is finally tamed. Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady (1725), a satire of both political debate and women's place in society, portrays a Tory man and a Whig woman who find themselves discussing love, even though they have pledged to remain platonic friends. The Accomplish'd Rake (1727) follows the exploits of Sir John Galliard from youth to manhood, when he is forced to accept responsibility for his actions. Mary Davys (1674?-1732) was one of the earliest female novelists in Britain, and after the death of her husband she supported herself by writing and running a coffeehouse. Her writing sparkles, especially in its witty dialogue. Although these three short epistolary novels are framed in a clear moral universe in which virtue is rewarded and transgressions is punished, her works are not overtly religious and punishment is as likely to come from society as from providence.
Author: William Sullivan
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Published: 1834
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Hall
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2022-07-28
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 3375103247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Author: Jonathan Dickinson (President of New Jersey College.)
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Published: 1835
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph Priestley
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Published: 1790
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Justus Freiherr von Liebig
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Published: 1843
Total Pages: 214
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Abigail Adams
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 687
ISBN-13: 1465583637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThirty-five years ago a collection of letters written during the period of the Revolution and later, by John Adams and his wife, Abigail Adams, came into my hands. They interested me so much that I thought they might possibly interest others also, especially the growing generations not familiar with the history of the persons and events connected with the great struggle. The result was an experiment in publication, first, of a selection from the letters of Mrs. Adams addressed to her husband; and, at a later moment, of a selection from his replies. The first series proved so acceptable to the public that it ran through four large editions in eight years. The second, though slower of sale, has likewise been long since exhausted. Applications have been made to me from time to time for information where copies of either might be had, to which I could give no satisfactory answer. I purchased one copy, whilst residing in London several years ago, which I found by chance advertised in a sale catalogue of old books in that city. I know not now where I could get another. Reflecting on these circumstances, in connection with the approaching celebration of the Centenary year of the national existence, it occurred to me that a reproduction of some portion of the papers, with such additions as could be made from letters not then included, might not prove unacceptable now. To that end I have ventured to embrace, in a single volume, so much of the correspondence that took place between these persons as was written during the period of the Revolutionary struggle, and terminating with the signature of the preliminary articles of the great Treaty which insured pacification and independence to the people of the United States.