The Broadview Anthology of Literature of the Revolutionary Period 1770-1832
The Broadview Anthology of Literature of the Revolutionary Period 1770-1832

Author: D.L. Macdonald

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2010-03-04

Total Pages: 1609

ISBN-13: 1551110512

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The selections from 132 authors in this anthology represent gender, social class, and racial and national origin as inclusively as possible, providing both greater context for canonical works and a sense of the era’s richness and diversity. In terms of genre, poetry, non-fiction prose, philosophy, educational writing, and prose fiction are included. Geographically, America, Canada, Australia, India, and Africa are represented along with Britain, emphasizing Romantic literature as a world literature. Biographical headnotes, explanatory footnotes, and an extensive bibliography clarify and illuminate the texts for readers.

Romanticism and Animal Rights
Romanticism and Animal Rights

Author: David Perkins

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-10-23

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1139440918

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In England in the second half of the eighteenth century an unprecedented amount of writing urged kindness to animals. This theme was carried in many genres, from sermons to encyclopedias, from scientific works to literature for children, and in the poetry of Cowper, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare and others. Romanticism and Animal Rights discusses the arguments writers used, and the particular meanings of these arguments in a social and economic context so different from the present. After introductory chapters, the material is divided according to specific practices that particularly influenced feeling or aroused protest: pet keeping, hunting, baiting, working animals, eating them, and the various harms inflicted on wild birds. The book shows how extensively English Romantic writing took up issues of what we now call animal rights. In this respect it joins the growing number of studies that seek precedents or affinities in English Romanticism for our own ecological concerns.

Nineteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets Vol 1
Nineteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets Vol 1

Author: John Goodridge

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-13

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1000748359

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Over 100 poets of labouring class origin were published in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some were hugely popular and important in their day but few are available today. This is a collection of some of those poems from the 19th century.

Robert Bloomfield, Romanticism and the Poetry of Community
Robert Bloomfield, Romanticism and the Poetry of Community

Author: Simon J. White

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780754657538

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Until now, no modern critic has undertaken a full-length study of Robert Bloomfield in the context of the work of other Romantic poets. White's authoritative study demonstrates that Bloomfield's verse was key to the evolution of the lyric and literary bal

The Many Names of Country People
The Many Names of Country People

Author: John T. Schlebecker

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 1989-04-10

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13:

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Country names are used to describe people who were--or are--engaged in agricultural pursuits. They indicate status, occupation, duties, geographical location, type or level of skill, economic function, and many other conditions of rural life. This new historical dictionary provides an important key to country life in English-speaking regions from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. It presents information on the usage, meanings, and historical background for more than 1,778 names that have been given to the country people of Britain, North America, and the West Indies, as well as Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. The entries identify agrarian meanings of the names, the occupational groups that used them, dates of use, geographical range, and common and uncommon variants. Connotations are noted--whether the terms are respectful or derogatory, playful, or merely descriptive--and cross-referencing is supplied for terms that appear in more than one entry. This reference is the only comprehensive work of its kind. It will be a useful and informative companion to the researcher concerned with agricultural and economic history, the history of English-speaking peoples, and the history of the English language.