Letters Of Literary Men The Nineteenth Century
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Author | : Richard H. Brodhead |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226075266 |
Richard H. Brodhead uses a great variety of historical sources, many of them considered here for the first time, to reconstruct the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America: the middle-class domestic culture of letters, the culture of mass-produced cheap reading, the militantly hierarchical high culture of the post-Civil War decades, and the literary culture of post-emancipation black education. Moving across a range of writers familiar and unfamiliar, and relating groups of writers often considered in artificial isolation, Brodhead describes how these socially structured worlds of writing shaped the terms of literary practice for the authors who inhabited them.
Author | : Frank Arthur Mumby |
Publisher | : London : G. Routledge ; New York : E.P. Dutton |
Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
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Author | : Celeste-Marie Bernier |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 752 |
Release | : 2016-02-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748692940 |
This comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field-the history of letters and letter writing-is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century American politics, history or literature. Because of its mass literacy, population mobility, and extensive postal system, nineteenth-century America is a crucial site for the exploration of letters and their meanings, whether they be written by presidents and statesmen, scientists and philosophers, novelists and poets, feminists and reformers, immigrants, Native Americans, or African Americans. This book breaks new ground by mapping the voluminous correspondence of these figures and other important American writers and thinkers. Rather than treating the letter as a spontaneous private document, the contributors understand it as a self-conscious artefact, circulating between friends and strangers and across multiple genres in ways that both make and break social ties.
Author | : S. Krawczyk |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2009-07-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230623387 |
The late eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of the literary family: a collaborative kinship network of family and friends that, by the end of the century, displayed characteristics of a nascent corporation. This book examines different models of collaboration within English literary families during the period 1760-1820. Beginning with the sibling model of Anna Barbauld and John Aikin, and concluding with the intergenerational model presented by the Godwins and the Shelleys, this study traces the conflict and cooperation that developed within and among literary families as they sought to leave their legacies on the English world of letters.
Author | : William F. Halloran |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2018-11-27 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1783745037 |
William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudonym: he corresponded as Macleod, enlisting his sister to provide the handwriting and address, and for more than a decade "Fiona Macleod" duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as William Butler Yeats and, in America, E. C. Stedman. Sharp wrote "I feel another self within me now more than ever; it is as if I were possessed by a spirit who must speak out". This three-volume collection brings together Sharp’s own correspondence – a fascinating trove in its own right, by a Victorian man of letters who was on intimate terms with writers including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, and George Meredith – and the Fiona Macleod letters, which bring to life Sharp’s intriguing "second self". With an introduction and detailed notes by William F. Halloran, this richly rewarding collection offers a wonderful insight into the literary landscape of the time, while also investigating a strange and underappreciated phenomenon of late-nineteenth-century English literature. It is essential for scholars of the period, and it is an illuminating read for anyone interested in authorship and identity.
Author | : James Willis Westlake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Letter writing |
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Author | : Frank Arthur Mumby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : English letters |
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Author | : Frank Arthur Mumby |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 2015-06-26 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781330223246 |
Excerpt from Letters of Literary Men: The Nineteenth Century The present volume completes a work which is intended, as stated in the earlier and companion volume, to illustrate the history of English literature, by means of letters, from the end of the fifteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. The letters, now first collected, take up the story from the death of Burns, with which the first volume comes to a close, and bring it down to Ruskin and Robert Buchanan, who, alone among the authors here included, lived long enough to link the twentieth century with the literary history of the nineteenth. It has been by no means an easy task to find room for all the great writers of English literature during the last hundred years; and in some cases it has been impossible to obtain letters suitable for the purpose - which has been to follow each author through all the more important stages of his career, allowing him to relate events, and record his impressions, in his own words. For that reason no letters of living authors have been included; and questions of copyright have made it necessary to give less space to certain writers of the past than their merits deserve. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Thomas Loebel |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2005-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0773572317 |
Moving back to the trial of Anne Hutchinson in Puritan Massachusetts and the captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson in order to analyse theo-political signification, Loebel provides a new context for examining the politically performative function of language in such texts as "The Scarlet Letter," "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and "Waiting for the Verdict." He also argues, however, that a specific theo-logic manifests itself in the political rhetoric of the nation, such that the afterlife of the "New Jerusalem" resonates not just in the "Blessings of Liberty" enshrined in the Constitution but also in the shift from a religious understanding of union with Jesus to that of the Union of States as a nation. Loebel compares unionist and confederate discourse, opening up new ways of theorising representation as a political, theological, legal, and literary issue that has continued currency both in twentieth-century literature and in the political discourse of America's global vision, such as the "axis of evil" and the "new world order." Anyone interested in American literature and culture will view the relationship between ethics and justice differently after reading this book.
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Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1881 |
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