Jane Austen's "Sir Charles Grandison"
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 180
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Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Richardson
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sylvia Kasey Marks
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780838750902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book-length monograph to examine Samuel Richardson's last and least-known work. Marks considers this novel a natural outgrowth and culmination of the conduct-book form -- indeed, the finest example of the genre.
Author: Jane Austen
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Published: 2022-08-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780733440427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jane Austen
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-01-23
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781523644957
DOWNLOAD EBOOK20th century literary critic Carol Flynn characterises Sir Charles Grandison as a "man of feeling who truly cannot be said to feel".[5]:47 Flynn claims that Grandison is filled with sexual passions that never come to light, and he represents a perfect moral character in regards to respecting others. Unlike Richardson's previous novel Clarissa, there is an emphasis on society and how moral characteristics are viewed by the public.
Author: Jocelyn Harris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-08-28
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521542074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a radical new thesis about Jane Austen's construction of her art and recreates substantial area of her mental and imaginative life.
Author: Jocelyn Harris
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2017-08-03
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 1611488435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, Jocelyn Harris argues thatJane Austen was a satirist, a celebrity-watcher,and a keen political observer.In Mansfield Park, she appears to baseFanny Price on Fanny Burney, criticizethe royal heir as unfit to rule, and exposeSusan Burney’s cruel husband throughMr. Price. In Northanger Abbey, she satirizes the young Prince of Wales as the vulgar John Thorpe; in Persuasion, she attacks both the regent’s failure to retrench, and his dangerous desire to become another Sun King. For Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Austen may draw on the actress Dorothy Jordan, mistress of the pro-slavery Duke of Clarence, while her West Indian heiress in Sanditon may allude to Sara Baartman, who was exhibited in Paris and London as “The Hottentot Venus,” and adopted as a test case by the abolitionists. Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, this new book by Jocelyn Harris contributes significantly to the growing literature about Austen’s worldiness by presenting a highly particularized web of facts, people, texts, and issues vital to her historical moment.
Author: Linda Zionkowski
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-26
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1317240472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyzes why the most influential novelists of the long eighteenth century centered their narratives on the theory and practice of gift exchange. Throughout this period, fundamental shifts in economic theories regarding the sources of individual and national wealth along with transformations in the practices of personal and institutional charity profoundly altered cultural understandings of the gift's rationale, purpose, and function. Drawing on materials such as sermons, conduct books, works of political philosophy, and tracts on social reform, Zionkowski challenges the idea that capitalist discourse was the dominant influence on the development of prose fiction. Instead, by shifting attention to the gift system as it was imagined and enacted in the formative years of the novel, the volume offers an innovative understanding of how the economy of obligation shaped writers' portrayals of class and gender identity, property, and community. Through theoretically-informed readings of Richardson's Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison, Burney's Cecilia and The Wanderer, and Austen's Mansfield Park and Emma, the book foregrounds the issues of donation, reciprocity, indebtedness, and gratitude as it investigates the conflicts between the market and moral economies and analyzes women's position at the center of these conflicts. As this study reveals, the exchanges that eighteenth-century fiction prescribed for women confirm the continuing power and importance of gift transactions in the midst of an increasingly commercial culture. The volume will be essential reading for scholars of the eighteenth-century novel, economic literary criticism, women and gender studies, and book history.
Author: William McCarthy
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2013-12-24
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 1611485509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the first collection of essays on poet and public intellectual Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825). By international scholars of eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature, these new essays survey Barbauld’s writing from early to late: her versatility as a stylist, her poetry, her books for children, her political writing, her performance as editor and reviewer. They explore themes of sociability, materiality, and affect in Barbauld’s writing, and trace her reception and influence. Rooted in enlightenment philosophy and ethics and dissenting religion, Barbauld’s work exerted a huge impact on the generation of Wordsworth and Coleridge, and on education and ideas about childhood far into the nineteenth century. William McCarthy’s introduction explores the importance of Barbauld’s work today, and co-editor Olivia Murphy assesses the commentary on Barbauld that followed her rediscovery in the early 1990s. Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the indispensible introduction to Barbauld’s work and current thinking about it.
Author: Janet M. Todd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-10-20
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780521826440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lively illustrated collection of short essays on a wide range of aspects of Austen's life, work and times.