The Seducer's Distracted Confession, in a Poetical Rhapsody to a Brother of the Knife
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Published: 1782
Total Pages: 98
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katherine Binhammer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-09-24
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 113948172X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEighteenth-century literature displays a fascination with the seduction of a virtuous young heroine, most famously illustrated by Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and repeated in 1790s radical women's novels, in the many memoirs by fictional or real penitent prostitutes, and in street print. Across fiction, ballads, essays and miscellanies, stories were told of women's mistaken belief in their lovers' vows. In this book Katherine Binhammer surveys seduction narratives from the late eighteenth century within the context of the new ideal of marriage-for-love and shows how these tales tell varying stories of women's emotional and sexual lives. Drawing on new historicism, feminism, and narrative theory, Binhammer argues that the seduction narrative allowed writers to explore different fates for the heroine than the domesticity that became the dominant form in later literature. This study will appeal to scholars of eighteenth-century literature, social and cultural history, and women's and gender studies.
Author: Trevor Ross
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2018-11-01
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1421426323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the role of literary writing in democratic society? Building upon his previous work on the emergence of “literature,” Trevor Ross offers a history of how the public function of literature changed as a result of developing press freedoms during the period from 1760 to 1810. Writing in Public examines the laws of copyright, defamation, and seditious libel to show what happened to literary writing once certain forms of discourse came to be perceived as public and entitled to freedom from state or private control. Ross argues that—with liberty of expression becoming entrenched as a national value—the legal constraints on speech had to be reconceived, becoming less a set of prohibitions on its content than an arrangement for managing the public sphere. The public was free to speak on any subject, but its speech, jurists believed, had to follow certain ground rules, as formalized in laws aimed at limiting private ownership of culturally significant works, maintaining civility in public discourse, and safeguarding public deliberation from the coercions of propaganda. For speech to be truly free, however, there had to be an enabling exception to the rules. Since the late eighteenth century, Ross suggests, the role of this exception has been performed by the idea of literature. Literature is valued as the form of expression that, in allowing us to say anything and in any form, attests to our liberty. Yet, paradoxically, it is only by occupying no definable place within the public sphere that literature can remain as indeterminate as the public whose self-reinvention it serves.
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 714
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bernard Mandeville
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Published: 1806
Total Pages: 554
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harold Bloom
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2008-07
Total Pages: 774
ISBN-13: 0007292848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of 'The Western Canon', has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare's genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays.
Author: Henry James
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 656
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Fielding
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Published: 1820
Total Pages: 366
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squireathough he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, "Tom Jones" is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.
Author: Voltaire
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2016-05-22
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ISBN-13: 9781358690211
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