The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker

The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker
Author: Jane Barker
Publisher: Women Writers in English 1350
Total Pages: 382
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0195086511

This volume gathers three novels along with other important work by Jane Barker (1652-1732), a writer, manager of farm property, Roman Catholic convert, Jacobite in exile in France, and woman unmarried by choice.

The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker

The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker
Author: Jane Barker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 379
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0195086503

Hybrid in genre the works of Jane Barker include realistic stories, romances, poetry, religious & philosophical reflections and critiques of early 18th century England. She was a religious convert, poet and some of the time a Jacobite spy.

The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set

The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set
Author: Gary Day
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 1524
Release: 2015-03-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1444330209

Provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the poetry, drama, fiction, and literary and cultural criticism produced from the Restoration of the English monarchy to the onset of the French Revolution Comprises over 340 entries arranged in A-Z format across three fully indexed and cross-referenced volumes Written by an international team of leading and emerging scholars Features an impressive scope and range of subjects: from courtship and circulating libraries, to the works of Samuel Johnson and Sarah Scott Includes coverage of both canonical and lesser-known authors, as well as entries addressing gender, sexuality, and other topics that have previously been underrepresented in traditional scholarship Represents the most comprehensive resource available on this period, and an indispensable guide to the rich diversity of British writing that ushered in the modern literary era 3 Volumes www.literatureencyclopedia.com

Revising Women

Revising Women
Author: Paula R. Backscheider
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2002-10-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780801870958

A collection of essays from feminist critics, each of which explores the history of the English novel, literature's place in cultural debate and women's studies. They begin with the fictions of the late 17th century and end with Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen.

Novel Cleopatras

Novel Cleopatras
Author: Nicole Horejsi
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2019-04-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1442667400

Advocating a revised history of the eighteenth-century novel, Novel Cleopatras showcases the novel’s origins in ancient mythology, its relation to epic narrative, and its connection to neoclassical print culture. Novel Cleopatras also rewrites the essential role of women writers in history who were typically underestimated as active participants of neoclassical culture, often excluded from the same schools that taught their brothers Greek and Latin. However, as author Nicole Horejsi reveals, a number of exceptional middle-class women were actually serious students of the classics. In order to dismiss the idea that women were completely marginalized as neoclassical writers, Horejsi takes up the character of Dido from ancient Greek mythology and her real-life counterpart Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt. Together, the legendary Dido and historical Cleopatra serve as figures for the conflation of myth and history. Horejsi contends that turning to the doomed queens who haunted the Roman imagination enabled eighteenth-century novelists to seize the productive overlap among the categories of history, romance, the novel, and even the epic.

Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England

Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Nicola Parsons
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2015-12-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230244769

This book analyzes the relation between print cultures and eighteenth-century literary and political practices and, identifying Queen Anne's England as a crucial moment in the public life of gossip, offers readings of key texts that demonstrate how gossip's interpretative strategies shaped readers' participation in the literary and public spheres.

Women and Poetry 1660-1750

Women and Poetry 1660-1750
Author: S. Prescott
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2003-09-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230504892

The specially commissioned essays in Women and Poetry, 1660-1750 address the multiplicity of female poetic practice and the public image of the woman poet between the Restoration and mid-eighteenth century. The volume includes biographically informative accounts of individual poets alongside detailed essays which discuss the different contexts and poetic traditions shaping women's poetry in this key period in literary history. Women and Poetry, 1660-1750 draws together a wealth of recent scholarship from a strong cast of contributors (including Germaine Greer) into one accessible volume aimed at both students and specialist readers.

Literature and Medicine

Literature and Medicine
Author: Clark Lawlor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2021-06-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108420869

Offers an authoritative account of literature and medicine at a vital point in their emergence during the eighteenth century.

Literature and Medicine: Volume 1

Literature and Medicine: Volume 1
Author: Clark Lawlor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2021-06-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108368980

Offering an authoritative and timely account of the relationship between literature and medicine in the eighteenth century and Romantic period, a time when most diseases had no cure, this collection provides a valuable overview of how two dynamic fields influenced and shaped one another. Covering a period in which both medicine and literature underwent frequent and sometimes radical change, the volume examines the complex mutual construction of these two fields via various perspectives: disability, gender, race, rank, sexuality, the global and colonial, politics, ethics, and the visual. Diseases, fashionable and otherwise, such as Defoe's representation of the plague, feature strongly, as authors argue for the role literary genres play in affecting people's experience of physical and mental illness (and health) across the volume. Along with its sister publication, Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century, this volume offers a major critical overview of the study of literature and medicine.

Women's Writing and the Circulation of Ideas

Women's Writing and the Circulation of Ideas
Author: George Justice
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2002-03-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521808569

This book examines the writing and manuscript publication of key authors from 1550 to 1800.