Schiller to Derrida

Schiller to Derrida

Author: Juliet Sychrava

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989-06-30

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0521360277

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This is a historical critique of literary theory from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.


James Thomson's The Seasons, Print Culture, and Visual Interpretation, 1730–1842

James Thomson's The Seasons, Print Culture, and Visual Interpretation, 1730–1842

Author: Sandro Jung

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-04-22

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1611461928

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Drawing on the methods of textual and reception studies, book history, print culture research, and visual culture, this interdisciplinary study of James Thomson’s The Seasons (1730) understands the text as marketable commodity and symbolic capital which throughout its extended affective presence in the marketplace for printed literary editions shaped reading habits. At the same time, through the addition of paratexts such as memoirs of Thomson, notes, and illustrations, it was recast by changing readerships, consumer fashions, and ideologies of culture. The book investigates the poem’s cultural afterlife by charting the prominent place it occupied in the visual cultures of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. While the emphasis of the chapters is on printed visual culture in the form of book illustrations, the book also features discussions of paintings and other visual media such as furniture prints. Reading illustrations of iconographic moments from The Seasons as paratextual, interpretive commentaries that reflect multifarious reading practices as well as mentalities, the chapters contextualise the editions in light of their production and interpretive inscription. They introduce these editions’ publishers and designers who conceived visual translations of the text, as well as the engravers who rendered these designs in the form of the engraving plate from which the illustration could then be printed. Where relevant, the chapters introduce non-British illustrated editions to demonstrate in which ways foreign booksellers were conscious of British editions of The Seasons and negotiated their illustrative models in the sets of engraved plates they commissioned for their volumes.


Transformations of a Genre

Transformations of a Genre

Author: Ralph Cohen

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-01-02

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 3030896684

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The aim of this book is to orchestrate “a generic reconstitution of literary studies” based on a comprehensive theory of genre and generic transformation. Taking “An Excellent Ballad of George Barnwel,” a seventeenth-century broadside of sex and greed, Ralph Cohen analyzes the generic transformations—including Addison’s ballad criticism in The Spectator, The London Merchant, Percy’s ballad editing in Reliques, and Barnwell. A Novel—in which this particular ballad exhibits remarkable continuity over the next four centuries, culminating with his personal re-formation; what was considered non-literary criticism becomes literary. This unique literary history reconceives narrative as a component of genre rather than a genre itself, demonstrates the ineluctably mixed nature of genres and the literary nature of our humanness, and analyzes the shifting generic contexts for interpretation and gender relations. Incorporating theory consciousness into the literary genre he is regenerating, Cohen offers a brilliant example of how future literary histories might be written.


Anthologies of British Poetry

Anthologies of British Poetry

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-22

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 9004486321

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From Tottel's Miscellany (1557) to the last twentieth-century Oxford Book of English Verse (1999), anthologies have been a prime institution for the preservation and mediation of poetry. The importance of anthologies for creating and re-creating the canon of English poetry, for introducing ‘new' programmes of poetry, as a record of changing poetic fashions, audience tastes and reading practices, or as a profitable literary commodity has often been asserted. Despite its impact, however, the poetry anthology in itself has attracted surprisingly little critical interest in Britain or elsewhere in the English-speaking world. This volume is the first publication to explore the largely unmapped field of poetry anthologies in Britain. Essays written from a wide range of perspectives in literary and cultural studies, and the point of view of poets, editors, publishers and cultural institutions, aim to do justice to the typological, functional and historical variety with which this form of publication has manifested itself - from early modern print culture to the postmodern age of the world wide web.


Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism

Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism

Author: Martin Coyle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 1320

ISBN-13: 1134977107

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Contains essays by approximately ninety scholars and critics in which they investigate various aspects of English literary eras, genres, and works; and includes bibliographies and suggestions for further reading.


Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 1282

ISBN-13:

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Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)


Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism

Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism

Author: Kevis Goodman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-07-29

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780521831680

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Goodman traces connections between Georgic verse and developments in other spheres from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries.


Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England

Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England

Author: Lawrence I. Lipking

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-03-08

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 1400870070

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By the end of the eighteenth century, the arts had been surveyed by an unprecedented series of major works on literature, music, and painting of which the author or this book provides a rich and comprehensive analysis. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


James Thomson

James Thomson

Author: Richard Terry

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780853239543

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James Thomson: Essays for the Tercentenary is the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to the works of the eighteenth-century Scottish poet James Thomson. The volume is divided into two sections, the first addressing Thomson’s writings themselves, and the second the reception of his works after his death and their influence on later writers. The first section contains essays analyzing the politics and aesthetics of Thomson’s major poems and also a reevaluation of Thomson as a heroic dramatist. The second section capitalizes on the certainty felt by many in Thomson’s own century that the poet, especially through his most successful poem The Seasons, had won for himself an indelible fame. This volume provides a definitive reappraisal of his achievement for our own times.