Mentoring in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
Mentoring in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture

Author: Anthony W. Lee

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1317097246

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In the first collection devoted to mentoring relationships in British literature and culture, the editor and contributors offer a fresh lens through which to observe familiar and lesser known authors and texts. Employing a variety of critical and methodological approaches, which reflect the diversity of the mentoring experiences under consideration, the collection highlights in particular the importance of mentoring in expanding print culture. Topics include John Wilmot the Earl of Rochester's relationships to a range of role models, John Dryden's mentoring of women writers, Alexander Pope's problematic attempts at mentoring, the vexed nature of Jonathan Swift's cross-gender and cross-class mentoring relationships, Samuel Richardson's largely unsuccessful efforts to influence Urania Hill Johnson, and an examination of Elizabeth Carter and Samuel Johnson's as co-mentors of one another's work. Taken together, the essays further the case for mentoring as a globally operative critical concept, not only in the eighteenth century, but in other literary periods as well.

Early English Poetry, Ballads and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages: The four knaves ... by Samuel Rowlands. A poem to the memory of William Congreve, by James Thomson. The pleasant conceits of old Hobson, the merry Londoner. [By Richard Johnson] Maroccus extaticus: or, Bankes' bay horse in a trance. Old ballads illustrating the great frost of 1683-4 and the fair on the river Thames. Collected and ed. by E. F. Rimbault
Early English Poetry, Ballads and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages: The four knaves ... by Samuel Rowlands. A poem to the memory of William Congreve, by James Thomson. The pleasant conceits of old Hobson, the merry Londoner. [By Richard Johnson] Maroccus extaticus: or, Bankes' bay horse in a trance. Old ballads illustrating the great frost of 1683-4 and the fair on the river Thames. Collected and ed. by E. F. Rimbault

Author: Percy Society

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Published: 1844

Total Pages: 352

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The Incomparable Hester Santlow
The Incomparable Hester Santlow

Author: Moira Goff

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1351887807

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In the first full-length study of the English dancer-actress Hester Santlow, Moira Goff focuses on her unusual career at Drury Lane between 1706 and 1733. Goff charts Santlow's repertoire and makes extensive use of archival resources to investigate both her dancing and acting skills. Santlow made a unique contribution to the development of dance on the London stage, through her dancing roles in dance dramas by John Weaver and pantomimes by John Thurmond and Roger, as well as the virtuoso dances created for her by Mr. Isaac and Anthony L'Abbé. Goff examines Santlow's fascinating personal life, including her relationships with the politician James Craggs the Younger and the Drury Lane actor-manager Barton Booth. Santlow was unusual in making the transition from successful dancer-actress to independent and respectable widow. Goff also traces her life after retirement as her daughter's family rose from the gentry towards the aristocracy. This book will be of interest to dance and theatre historians, to women's studies scholars, and to all who are engaged with ongoing debates on the lives and careers of women on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century stage.