Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science

Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science
Author: David N. Livingstone
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2011-12-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0226487296

In Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority, and identity. Chapters from a distinguished range of contributors explore the places of creation, the paths of knowledge transmission and reception, and the import of exchange networks at various scales. Studies range from the inspection of the places of London science, which show how different scientific sites operated different moral and epistemic economies, to the scrutiny of the ways in which the museum space of the Smithsonian Institution and the expansive space of the American West produced science and framed geographical understanding. This volume makes clear that the science of this era varied in its constitution and reputation in relation to place and personnel, in its nature by virtue of its different epistemic practices, in its audiences, and in the ways in which it was put to work.

The Emergence of Literary Criticism in 18th-Century Britain

The Emergence of Literary Criticism in 18th-Century Britain
Author: Sebastian Domsch
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2014-08-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110362066

This study tries, through a systematic and historical analysis of the concept of critical authority, to write a history of literary criticism from the end of the 17th to the end of the 18th century that not only takes the discursive construction of its (self)representation into account, but also the social and economic conditions of its practice. It tries to consider the whole of the critical discourse on literature and criticism in the time period covered. Thus, it is distinctive through its methodology (there is no systematic account of the historical development of critical authority and no discussion of the institutionalization of criticism of such a scope), its material of analysis (most of the many hundred texts self-reflexively commenting on criticism that are discussed here have been so far virtually ignored) and through its results, a complex history of criticism in the 18th century that is neither reductive nor the accumulation of isolated aspects or author figures, but that probes into the very nature of the activity of criticism. The aim of this study is both to provide a thorough historical understanding of the emergence of criticism and as a consequence an understanding of the inner workings and power relations that structure criticism to this day.

Reviewing before the Edinburgh 1788-1802

Reviewing before the Edinburgh 1788-1802
Author: Derek Roper
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2023-08-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000962261

First published in 1978, Reviewing before the Edinburgh is a study of English literary reviewing during the fifteen years before the founding in1802 of the Edinburgh Review, and an assessment of the reviewers’ achievement. The long introductory chapter describes the aims, methods, staffing, readership, influence, and development of the five important Reviews of the 1790s: the Monthly Review, Critical Review, English Review, Analytical Review, and British Critic. The author argues that this type of Review declined during the 19th century, not because of poor performance, but because the ambitious aim of comprehensive reviewing had become impossible to achieve. The remaining chapters discuss and evaluate the work of these Reviews, chiefly in the fields of poetry, fiction, and political and religious controversy. The book fills a gap in the literary and political history of the period; provides a compact summary of its review criticism; and gives a better perspective on both reviewers and reviewed in years that were unusually fertile in political controversy and literary experiment. It will be of interest to students of literature and history.

Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part I

Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part I
Author: Ann R Hawkins
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 1263
Release: 2022-07-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000743756

This multi-volume reset collection will addresses significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.

Becoming Wollstonecraft

Becoming Wollstonecraft
Author: Brenda Ayres
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2024-04-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040007791

Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works draws from biography to explain her works, and it analyses the works to draw a biographical composite of Wollstonecraft. Becoming Wollstonecraft will be more fully developed than previous works, with added information that has not previously been associated with Wollstonecraft, such as the story of Reverend Mr. Joshua Waterhouse. Although there are over fifty book-length biographies published on Wollstonecraft, very few agree on much about Wollstonecraft. She seems to have become an “everywoman,” or a figure unfixed in time and protean. Deemed the Mother of Feminism, like feminism itself, she is what people have wanted her to be and is by no means an immutable or universal personage. A study of her life as evident by her works and vice versa, this monograph intends to refocus the image of Wollstonecraft for students and scholars, informed by biographical texts on Wollstonecraft and on those people in Wollstonecraft’s life and acquaintance, historical context, and exposition from her works.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia
Author:
Publisher: PediaPress
Total Pages: 2053
Release:
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Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part I Vol 3

Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part I Vol 3
Author: Ann R Hawkins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 626
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000748502

This multi-volume reset collection will addresses significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.

The Joseph Johnson Letterbook

The Joseph Johnson Letterbook
Author: Joseph Johnson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199644241

The Joseph Johnson Letterbook is the first scholarly edition of the correspondence of the influential publisher Joseph Johnson (1738-1809). Best known today for his work with politically progressive figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Joseph Priestley, over the course of his career Johnson was involved in the publication of thousands of works on a breathtaking range of subjects, from travel narratives to scientific writing to children's books. Johnson was also something of an impresario, and given his active involvement in shaping the books he published, he appears in the longue durée of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British print culture as a gateway figure in the slow transition from patronage to marketplace. The Joseph Johnson Letterbook brings into print for the first time over two hundred of Johnson's letters from archives around the world.

Index to Book Reviews in England, 1775-1800

Index to Book Reviews in England, 1775-1800
Author: Antonia Forster
Publisher:
Total Pages: 566
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

An index to reviews of 4982 works of poetry, fiction and drama published in England between 1775 and 1800, this reference tool offers easy access to reviews in many 18th-century journals. It includes reviews in all the main review journals, The Monthly Review, Critical Review, English Review, London Review, Analytical Review, British Critic, New Review, Anti-Jacobin Review and New London Review, the major magazines and 13 minor magazines or periodicals less well known in the area of book reviewing. Although the focus is on English periodicals, two Scottish magazines and one Irish one are included