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Author: Gillian Russell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-06-14
Total Pages: 15
ISBN-13: 0521867320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA highly illustrated and original contribution to the cultural history of sociability in the eighteenth century.
Author: Fiona Ritchie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-02
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1107046300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book establishes the significance of actresses, female playgoers and women critics in shaping Shakespeare's burgeoning reputation in the eighteenth century.
Author: Lauren Gillingham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-05-25
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1009296574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevealing how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel and its representation of social change and individual and collective life in nineteenth-century Britain, Lauren Gillingham offers a revisionist history of the novel. With particular attention to the fiction of the 1820s through 1840s, this study focuses on novels that use fashion's idiom of currency and obsolescence to link narrative form to a heightened sense of the present and the visibility of public life. It contends that novelists steeped their fiction in date-stamped matters of dress, manners, and media sensations to articulate a sense of history as unfolding not in epochal change, but in transient issues and interests capturing the public's imagination. Reading fiction by Mary Shelley, Letitia Landon, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, W. H. Ainsworth, Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and others, Fashionable Fictions tells the story of a nineteenth-century genre commitment to contemporaneity that restyles the novel itself.
Author: Gillian Russell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-08-27
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1108487580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis history of printed ephemera's rise as an eighteenth-century cultural category transforms understanding of 'disposable' printed items.
Author: Jonathan Mulrooney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-10
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1316877396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together studies in theater history, print culture, and literature, this book offers a new consideration of Romantic-period writing in Britain. Recovering a wide range of theatrical criticism from newspapers and periodicals, some of it overlooked since its original publication in Regency London, Jonathan Mulrooney explores new contexts for the work of the actor Edmund Kean, essayist William Hazlitt, and poet John Keats. Kean's ongoing presence as a figure in the theatrical news presented readers with a provocative re-imagining of personal subjectivity and a reworking of the British theatrical tradition. Hazlitt and Keats, in turn, imagined the essayist and the poet along similar theatrical lines, reframing Romantic prose and poetics. Taken together, these case studies illustrate not only theater's significance to early nineteenth-century Londoners, but also the importance of theater's textual legacies for our own re-assessment of 'Romanticism' as a historical and cultural phenomenon.
Author: Kevin Gilmartin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-24
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 110817941X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRanging across literature, theater, history, and the visual arts, this collection of essays by leading scholars in the field explores the range of places where British Romantic-period sociability transpired. The book considers how sociability was shaped by place, by the rooms, buildings, landscapes and seascapes where people gathered to converse, to eat and drink, to work and to find entertainment. At the same time, it is clear that sociability shaped place, both in the deliberate construction and configuration of venues for people to gather, and in the way such gatherings transformed how place was experienced and understood. The essays highlight literary and aesthetic experience but also range through popular entertainment and ordinary forms of labor and leisure.
Author: Bridget Orr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-02
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1108499716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals how England's eighteenth-century theatre dramatized anti-imperial protest, and gave voice to oppressed groups.
Author: Robert W. Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-09-22
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1107007895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new interdisciplinary perspective on masculine identity and politics in Britain during the American War of Independence, 1775-83.
Author: Paul Davis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 0198814038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays is a collection of fifteen essays by a team of internationally recognized experts specially commissioned to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of Addison's death in 2019. Almost exclusively known now as the inventor and main author of The Spectator, probably the most widely read and imitated prose work of the eighteenth century, Addison also produced important and influential work across a broad gamut of other literary modes--poems, verse translations, literary criticism, periodical journalism, drama, opera, travel writing. Much of this work is little known nowadays even in specialist academic circles; Addison is often described as the most neglected of the eighteenth century's major writers. This volume is the first collection to address the full range and variety of Addison's career and writings. Its fifteen chapters fall into three groupings: the first set study Addison's work in modes other than the literary periodical (poetry, translation, travel writing, drama); the second set address The Spectator from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (literary-critical, sociological and political, bibliographical); and the final set explore Addison's reception within several cultural spheres (philosophy, horticulture, art history), by individual writers or across larger historical periods (the Romantic age, the Victorian age), and in Britain and Europe, especially France. The volume provides an overdue and appropriately diverse memorial to one of the dominant men of letters of the Georgian era.
Author: Deborah Simonton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-02-03
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 135199574X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChallenging current perspectives of urbanisation, The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience explores how our towns and cities have shaped and been shaped by cultural, spatial and gendered influences. This volume discusses gender in an urban context in European, North American and colonial towns from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, casting new light on the development of medieval and modern settlements across the globe. Organised into six thematic parts covering economy, space, civic identity, material culture, emotions and the colonial world, this book comprises 36 chapters by key scholars in the field. It covers a wide range of topics, from women and citizenship in medieval York to gender and tradition in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South African cities, reframing our understanding of the role of gender in constructing the spaces and places that form our urban environment. Interdisciplinary and transnational in scope, this volume analyses the individual dynamics of each case study while also examining the complex relationships and exchanges between urban cultures. It is a valuable resource for all researchers and students interested in gender, urban history and their intersection and interaction throughout the past five centuries.
