Belinda
Author: Maria Edgeworth
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Published: 1811
Total Pages: 402
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The Works of Maria Edgeworth, Part I Vol 2
Author: Marilyn Butler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-25
Total Pages: 3276
ISBN-13: 1000743039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains Edgeworth's best courtship novel belinda, which replaces mercenary fortune-hunting with a deeper quest for marital compatibility, valorising irrationality and love over reason and duty. MARIA EDGEWORTH was born in 1768. Her first novel, Castle Rackrent (1800) was also her first Irish tale. The next such tale was Ennui (1809), after which came The Absentee, which began life as an unstaged play and was then published (in prose) in Tales of Fashionable Life (1812), as were several of her other stories. They were followed in 1817 by the last of her Irish tales, Ormond. Maria Edgeworth died in 1849. Edited with an introduction and notes by Marilyn Butler.
Belinda
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-02-27
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 0191504696
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'It is singular, that my having spent a winter with one of the most dissipated women in England should have sobered my mind so completely.' Maria Edgeworth's 1801 novel, Belinda, is an absorbing, sometimes provocative, tale of social and domestic life among the English aristocracy and gentry. The heroine of the title, only too conscious of being 'advertised' on the marriage market, grows in moral maturity as she seeks to balance self-fulfilment with achieving material success. Among those whom she encounters are the socialite Lady Delacour, whose brilliance and wit hide a tragic secret, the radical feminist Harriot Freke, the handsome and wealthy Creole gentleman Mr Vincent, and the mercurial Clarence Hervey, whose misguided idealism has led him into a series of near-catastrophic mistakes. In telling their story Maria Edgeworth gives a vivid picture of life in late eighteenth-century London, skilfully showing both the attractions of leisured society and its darker side, and blending drawing-room comedy with challenging themes involving serious illness, obsession, slavery and interracial marriage.
Fictions of Presence
Author: Rosalind Ballaster
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1783275588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of presence in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century.
Castle Rackrent
Author: Maria Edgeworth
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 418
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrowing Up in Nineteenth-century Ireland
Author: Mary Hatfield
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0198843429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive cultural history of childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland, which explores how the notion of childhood fluctuated depending on class, gender, and religious identity, and presents invaluable new insights into Irish boarding schools, the material culture of childhood, and the experience of boys and girls in education.
The Female Philosopher and Her Afterlives
Author: Deborah Weiss
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-11-17
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 3319553631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that the female philosopher, a literary figure brought into existence by Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, embodied the transformations of feminist thought during the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romantic period. By imagining a series of alternate lives and afterlives for the female philosopher, women authors of the early Romantic period used the resources of the novel to evaluate Wollstonecraft’s ideas and legacy. This book examines how these writers’ opinions converged on such issues as progress, education, and ungendered virtues, and how they diverged on a fundamental question connected to Wollstonecraft’s life and feminist thought: whether the enlightened, intellectual woman should live according to her own principles, or sacrifice moral autonomy in the interest of pragmatic accommodation to societal expectations.
Reinventing Liberty
Author: Price Fiona Price
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2016-03-16
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1474412890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRedefines the British historical novel as a key site in the construction of British national identityThe British historical novel has often been defined in the terms set by Walter Scott's fiction, as a reflection on a clear break between past and present. Returning to the range of historical fiction written before Scott, Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical novels written in the late eighteenth-century. It explores how these works participated in a contentious debate concerning political change and British national identity. Ranging across well-known writers, like William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, such as Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, Reinventing Liberty reveals how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as 'land of liberty' and it positions Scott in relation to this tradition.Key FeaturesRecovers the richness of the historical novel and history writing before Walter Scott, including the contribution of women writers to this debateExplores how historical fiction probes anxieties at the rise of commerce, the question of empire, and radical political changeRewrites our understanding of Scott and his relation to the earlier British historical novel
The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834
Author: Emily Senior
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-04-26
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1108266096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the 'grave of Europeans'. At the apex of British colonialism in the region between 1764 and 1834, the rapid spread of disease amongst colonist, enslaved and indigenous populations made the Caribbean notorious as one of the deadliest places on earth. Drawing on historical accounts from physicians, surgeons and travellers alongside literary works, Emily Senior traces the cultural impact of such widespread disease and death during the Romantic age of exploration and medical and scientific discovery. Focusing on new fields of knowledge such as dermatology, medical geography and anatomy, Senior shows how literature was crucial to the development and circulation of new medical ideas, and that the Caribbean as the hub of empire played a significant role in the changing disciplines and literary forms associated with the transition to modernity.
