Narrative Order, 1789-1819
Narrative Order, 1789-1819

Author: G. Edwards

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-11-22

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0230502245

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In the decades immediately following the French Revolution, British writers saw the narrative ordering of experience as either superficial, dangerous or impossible. Linking storytelling to other forms of social action, including the making of contracts and promises, Gavin Edwards argues that the experience of radical social upheaval produced a widespread scepticism about narrative as linguistic artefact, the transmission of narrative through storytelling and the understanding of individual or collective life as a temporal sequence with a beginning and an end.

English-language Poetry from Wales 1789-1806
English-language Poetry from Wales 1789-1806

Author: Elizabeth Edwards

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2013-02-15

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0708325696

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This new selection of Anglophone Welsh poetry presents a range of literary responses to the French Revolution and the ensuing wars with France, a period in which Wales and its history became prime imaginative territory for poets of all political sympathies.

Travels in Revolutionary France and a Journey Across America
Travels in Revolutionary France and a Journey Across America

Author:

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2012-11-15

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0708325599

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In July 1789 George Cadogan Morgan, born in Bridgend, Wales, and the nephew of the celebrated radical dissenter Richard Price (1723-91), found himself caught up in the opening events of the French Revolution and its consequences. In 1808, his family left Britain for America where his son, Richard Price Morgan, travelled extensively, made a descent of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers by raft and helped build some of the early American railroads. The adventures of both men are related here via letters George sent home to his family from France and through the autobiography written by his son in America.

Conversion and Reform in the British Novel in the 1790s
Conversion and Reform in the British Novel in the 1790s

Author: A. Markley

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-12-22

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0230617859

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Conversion and Reform analyzes the work of those British reformists writing in the 1790s who reshaped the conventions of fiction to reposition the novel as a progressive political tool. Includes new readings of key figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Holcroft.

26 Views of the Starburst World
26 Views of the Starburst World

Author: Ross Gibson

Publisher: UWA Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9781742582979

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Ross Gibson continues his speculative brilliance with this work on the astronomer and colonist William Dawes, using his notebooks as source material. It is an intellectual adventure around the tensions and pleasures of language and meaning, particularly Dawes' encounters under the southern stars, sharing ideas with a small group of Indigenous people from around Sydney Harbour. Dawes called his collaborators 'the Eora'. They told him it was their word for 'people', and it might have been the first thing they watched him write down. These were the years when Britain seized the Eora country, leading eventually to the establishment of the modern nation of Australia. Fragmentary, poetic and intriguing, Gibson describes, ponders and interprets the pages of Dawes' notebooks, which are reproduced throughout.

Property, Education and Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Property, Education and Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Author: V. Cope

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-05-29

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 0230239544

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This book recovers the importance of a major figure in eighteenth-century British fiction: the Heroine of Disinterest. The disinterested heroine was no stereotype but a crucial figure in modernizing identity, bringing to life the ideal of character as the product of experience and reflection rather than inheritance and lineage.

The Female Gothic
The Female Gothic

Author: D. Wallace

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-11-12

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0230245455

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This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood and nationality - to open up new critical directions.

“ENLIGHTENED” ATTITUDES TOWARDS OTHERNESS: TOLERANCE AND RATIONALITY IN SIR WALTER SCOTT’S NOVELS
“ENLIGHTENED” ATTITUDES TOWARDS OTHERNESS: TOLERANCE AND RATIONALITY IN SIR WALTER SCOTT’S NOVELS

Author: CRISTIAN ȘTEFAN VÎJEA

Publisher: Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 6061612273

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Studiul aduce o lumină nouă asupra operei lui Walter Scott, arătând relevanța ei în contextul contemporan. Combinând într-o abordare neo-formalistă teoriile lui Hayden White, Bogdan Ștefănescu și Mikhail Bakhtin, volumul de față demonstrează modul în care alteritatea, în ficțiunea lui Scott, aduce remediile necesare societății, dacă societatea permite existența alterității alături de ea, fără încercarea de a-i șterge diferențele. Importante sunt momentele de suspendare temporară a codurilor culturale, în stilul conservator al parodiei lui Bakhtin, permițând astfel o supapă de evacuare a tensiunilor sociale. Dincolo de jargonul tehnic, cartea pune în fața cititorului pasajele cele mai distractive din opera vastă a lui Scott, precum și un studiu interesant al iluminismului scoțian și al sferei publice care a reușit să încorporeze feedback-ul culturii populare, ajungând la început de secol XIX să exporte modelul său de succes în întreaga lume.

The Truth Against the World
The Truth Against the World

Author: Mary-Ann Constantine

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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During Iolo Morganwg's lifetime, Britain was obsessed with literary forgery. This book reveals the unexpected connections and hidden influences behind Britain's most successful (and therefore, perhaps, least visible) Romantic forger.