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LUP - Voltaire Foundation La diffusion de Locke en France Traduction au
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsI La diffusion de Locke en FranceJorn Schosler, L’Essai sur l’entendement de Locke et la lutte philosophique en France au XVIIIe siècle: l’histoire des traductions, des éditions et de la diffusion journalistique (1688-1742)II Traduction au dix-huitième siècleEdith McMorran, IntroductionRoland Mortier, Lumière et consorts: les avatars d’un concept historiqueLana Asfour, Theories of translation and the English novel in France, 1740-1790Edward Nye, Modernity in Desfontaines’s translation of Joseph AndrewsWill McMorran, Fielding in France: La Place’s Tom JonesSerge Soupel, Laurence Sterne, ses traducteurs et ses interprètesMaurice Levy, La traduction du roman noirPhilip Stewart, On the translation of JulieIII Lectures de RousseauFrederic S. Eigeldinger, Nécessité et vertu dans les minora de RousseauMichael O’Dea, Philosophie, histoire et imagination dans le Discours sur l’origine de l’inégalité de Jean-Jacques RousseauRésumés
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Sites of the Spectator Emerging Literary and
Book SynopsisThis transitional moment can be read in – and, furthermore, was prepared by – the emergence of several new literary genres in which, paradoxically, a Spectator was allotted the principle role.Trade Review'Pucci’s treatment of the four genres she examines is at times brilliant, and this book offers new perspectives for understanding the cultural and literary changes in the first half of the century.'ECCBTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 The spectator surfaces: tableau and page in Marivaux’s2 Keeping the image honest: the narrator as Spectator in tableaux of Diderot’s Salons3 The Spectator and the exotic: women in the plural4 Staging the Spectator: performance and the public in eighteenth-century theatre ConclusionList of works citedIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Une exp233rience rh233torique l233loquence de la
Book SynopsisTrade Review'Une des grandes prouesses de cet ouvrage, dont nous n’avons malheureusement pu mentionner que quelques contributions, est d’être parvenu à montrer, avec beaucoup de clarté, de richesse et de précision, la complexité de son objet.'Annales Histoire, Sciences SocialesTable of ContentsFrançoise Douay et Jean-Paul Sermain, PrésentationI. Modes oratoiresL’événementAurelio Principato, Comment restituer l’action oratoire de la Révolution? Peter France, A Tale of two cities: l’éloquence à Westminster et à ParisProcédés: la traditionSylviane Léoni, Laconisme et lieux communs dans les discours de Saint-JustPeter Krause-Tastet, L’Antiquité exemplaire: imitation et émulation dans les discours révolutionnairesIsabelle Martin, Yves-Michel Marchais: l’éloquence de la chaire, de la critique à l’indignationDynamiques interactivesSonia Branca-Rosoff, A propos d’un affrontement entre Maury et Clermont-Tonnerre: peut-on parler de deux modèles de rhétorique politique? Sophie Wahnich, L’émotion en partage: l’Assemblée législative face aux dangers de la patrie (juin 1792) II. Diffractions de l’éloquenceMédiationsHans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Gestes oratoires et représentations iconographiques: transcriptions de l’oralité dans les Tableaux historiques de la Révolution françaiseHerbert Schneider, La rhétorique de la chanson révolutionnaire: le cas du Chansonnier de la MontagneEric Négrel, Le théâtre au service de la Révolution: une rhétorique de l’élogeMaria Giesche, La rhétorique musicale du classicisme: l’antagonisme de Cherubini et de Spontini comme représentants de la Révolution française et de l’EmpireTatiana Smoliarova, Le rôle de la Révolution dans le destin du nom propre: le cas d’Ecouchard Le Brun, dit Le Brun-PindareTraductions-citationsAnnette Keilhauer, L’éloquence révolutionnaire en Allemand: Robespierre traduitIngrid Weber, Die Revolution ist die Revolution’: Georg Forster observateur-propagateur de la Révolution françaiseIII. Réflexions rhétoriquesLes intentions révolutionnairesJacques Guilhaumou, La rhétorique des porte-parole (1789-1792): le cas Sieyès†Brigitte Schlieben-Lange et Jochen Hafner, Rhétorique et Grammaire générale dans les Ecoles centralesJean-Paul Sermain, ‘Les formes ont ici une valeur’: la position singulière de La HarpeJean-Paul Sermain, Une rhétorique républicaine: l’Essai sur l’art oratoire de Joseph Droz (1799)Constructions rétrospectivesPatrick Brasart, Les rendez-vous manqués: Mme de Staël et l’éloquence révolutionnaireMaïté Bouyssy, Bertrand Barère ou l’impossible fuite dans l’encreAnne Vibert, L’éloquence révolutionnaire: modèle ou contre-modèle pour l’éloquence politique au XIXe siècle?Bibliographie, par Eric NégrelIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation The Influence of Switzerland on the Life and
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of illustrationsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Gibbon’s first stay in Lausanne2. The Letter on the Government of Berne3. The liberty of the Swiss4. The Essai sur l’étude de la littérature5. The importance of Gibbon’s second stay in Lausanne6. Revival of the Swiss history project7. Gibbon’s return to Switzerland8. The influence of Switzerland on The Decline and fall of the Roman Empire9. The influence of Switzerland on Gibbon’s life and characterConclusionBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Emile ou les Figures de la Fiction
Book SynopsisTrade Review'Ce livre est éminemment utilisable comme outil pédagogique pour des préparations de cours, et il est également en accord avec les dernières recherches accoutumées à la théorie critique des vingt dernières années.'Eighteenth-Century FictionTable of ContentsRemerciementsIntroduction1. Questions de genre2. Les figures du ‘je’ et les scénarios de lecture3. Les exemples rebelles de la méthode4. Fictions de l’anti-romanesque et effet-personnage5. L’être-femme et le devenir-roman6. Temporalités7. ‘Ce devroit être l’histoire de mon espéce’8. Les Anciens, les Modernes et l’Homme Nouveau: les avatars de Télémaque9. Des vicaires et de la vicariance10. Figures, fiction, et conclusionBibliographieIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Montesquieu and the Spirit of Modernity
Book SynopsisCeux d’aujourd’hui ne nous parlent que de manufactures, de commerce, de finances, de richesses et de luxe meme.’Ancient philosophers had conceptualised model regimes where human beings would flourish in accordance with their natural purposes and potentialities shaped by good laws well obeyed.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsDavid W. Carrithers, Introduction: Montesquieu and the spirit of modernityI. OvertureStephen Werner, Comedy and modernity: the Lettres persanesII. Ancients and modernsCatherine Volpilhac-Auger, Montesquieu et l’impérialisme grec: Alexandre ou l’art de la conquêteJames W. Muller, The political economy of republicanismDiana J. Schaub, The regime and Montesquieu’s principles of educationElena Russo, The youth of moral life: the virtue of the ancients from Montesquieu to NietzscheIII. Monarchy, population, taxation and justiceCéline Spector, Vices privés, vertus publiques: de la Fable des abeilles à De l’esprit des loisDavid W. Carrithers, Montesquieu and the spirit of French finance: an analysis of his Mémoire sur les dettes de l’état(1715) Carol Blum, Montesquieu, the sex ratio and ‘natural polygamy’Louis Desgraves, Montesquieu et la justice de son tempsIV. Horizons of interpretationDaniel Brewer, Thinking history through MontesquieuCatherine Larrère, Montesquieu and the modern republic: the republican heritage in nineteenth-century FranceIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Le Th233226tre de la Foire des treteaux aux
Book SynopsisTrade Review'Martin expresses the hope that her study will enable readers to experience the fair theatre play texts with an enjoyment based on familiarity with what the text cannot contain – the content of the ‘galaxy’ of the théâtre de la foire. Surely most readers will agree that in this respect she has succeeded brilliantly.'Eighteenth-Century Current BibliographyTable of ContentsListe des illustrationsAbréviationsPréface d’A. BlancIntroductionRemerciementsI. Les conditions d’une genèse1. Cadre et évolution du théâtre de la foireLes foires: les avantages d’une conjonctureLes loges: l’occupation d’un espace2. Cadre juridique et contraintes financièresLa guerre des théâtres: l’enjeu du publicLes problèmes d’argent: une nouvelle économie théâtrale3. Les créateurs d’un nouveau genre littéraireLes auteursLe cas Lesage4. Les traditions populaires et savantesIntégration des pratiques populairesMise à profit de l’héritage savantII. Gestation d’une forme littéraire5. Les techniques théâtrales6. Les sujets et les thèmesLes sujetsLes thèmes7. Les personnagesLes types issus de la Commedia dell’arteLes rôlesConclusionBibliographieListe des pièces répertoriées du Théâtre de la FoireIndex des noms propres
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Nikolai Karamzin Letters of a Russian Traveller
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Enlightenment Revolution and the Periodical Press
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsI. Approaches to the periodicals of the eighteenth century / Approches des périodiques du dix-huitième siècleJeremy D. Popkin and Jack R. Censer, Some paradoxes of the eighteenth-century periodicalHans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Horizons médiatiques et ouvertures interculturelles dans la presse au dix-huitième siècleII. Political culture and the communications media / Culture politique et médias de communicationJoão Luís Lisboa, News and newsletters in Portugal (1703-1754)Anne-Marie Mercier-Faivre, Une lecture fantasmatique de la Gazette d’Amsterdam au temps des Lettres persanes(1720-1721): le cas du despotisme orientalMarie-Christine Skuncke, Press and political culture in Sweden at the end of the Age of libertyBernadette Fort, Le discours politique dans les Salons des Mémoires secretsMartin Stuber, Journal and letter: the interaction between two communications media in the correspondence of Albrecht von HallerIII. Transformations: the Revolutionary era / L’époque révolutionnaireMaria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke, A spectator of the Spectators: Jacques-Vincent DelacroixEric Négrel, Le journaliste-orateur: rhétorique et politique sans-culottes dans Le Publiciste de la République françaisede Jacques Roux (juillet-octobre 1793)Susanne Lachenicht, La presse des immigrants allemands en Alsace (1791-1799)Philip Harling, The perils of ‘French philosophy’: Enlightenment and revolution in Tory journalism, 1800-1832Index
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation LEpop233e de Voltaire 224 Chateaubriand po233sie histoire et politique
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Bestiaires de Voltaire Gen232se de Candide et
Book SynopsisPresents a literary study.Table of ContentsChristiane Mervaud, Bestiaires de VoltaireIntroductionI. La philosophie de Voltaire à l’épreuve de l’animalité1. De l’âme des bêtes2. De la chaîne des êtres créés3. De l’anthropocentrismeII. Les bêtes et la marche de l’esprit humain4. ‘Les animaux ont une histoire’5. D’un bestiaire immonde6. L’animal médiateur entre l’homme et la divinité7. Des dieux sous forme animaleIII. Des bestiaires8. Le bestiaire moralisé9. Voltaire fabuliste? 10. Le bestiaire du polémiste11. Le bestiaire fabuleux12. Le bestiaire religieux13. Le bestiaire amoureuxConclusionIndex nominumIndex rerumFrédéric Deloffre, Genèse de Candide: étude de la création des personnages et de l’élaboration du romanIntroduction1. Un château en Westphalie2. Maître Pangloss3. Cunégonde4. Candide et le roi des Bulgares5. Histoire de Candide: du jeu de rôles au romanIndex nominumIndex rerumAutres études sur VoltairePedro Pardo Jiménez, Cartes sur table: note sur le voyage de Candide en Espagne et sur le réalisme de VoltaireMichel Mervaud, La référence russe dans CandideJane Rush, Topaze et Ebène, songe philosophique, avec l’Histoire du Perroquet: la pensée de Voltaire dans la contrefaçon de DuisbourgAbderhaman Messaoudi, En quoi consiste la religion de Voltaire?Florian Schui, Voltaire and the European debates about industrie and serfdom, c.1760-1778Christiane Mervaud et Christophe Paillard, Le supplice de Tantale: Decroix et l’inventaire des ouvrages marginés de Voltaire à Saint-Pétersbourg par Jean-Louis WagnièreRésumés
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation La Fureur de nuire 233changes pamphl233taires
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTable des illustrationsRemerciementsAvertissement sur l’établissement des textesNote sur la présentation des référencesListe des sigles et des abréviations utilisésIntroductionI. L’arme sans nom1. Brochure2. Critique3. Facétie4. Libelle5. Pamphlet6. Réfutation7. Satire, comédie satiriqueII. ‘Une guerre perpétuelle entre des abeilles et des guêpes’1. Traditions polémiques2. Vingt années de luttes entre philosophes et antiphilosophes3. Anatomie d’une querelle: Pompignan et les philosophesIII. Tactiques éditoriales1. Lieux éditoriaux2. Circuits de diffusion3. Hypothèses sur la réceptionIV. Stratégies d’écriture1. ‘L’art de calomnier avec fruit’2. Mises en fiction3. Subversion des formes4. Une esthétique du ‘plaisant’V. Enjeux pragmatiques1. Un espace polémique bipolaire2. La conquête de l’opinion3. Politique de VoltaireConclusionAnnexe 1. Textes polémiquesAnnexe 2. Inscription des pamphlets voltairiens dans les éditions successives des œuvres complètesBibliographieIndex des noms cités
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Voltaire Foundation Oeuvres De 1772 II Les Oeuvres Compltes de
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Voltaire Foundation Writings of 17421745 II Les Oeuvres Compltes de
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Sades Theatre Pleasure Vision Masochism
Book SynopsisTrade Review'What is striking in this monograph it its richness of documentation combined with Gallic methodological rigour [...] drawing on bibliography, publishing history, lexicology and discourse analysis. [...] This is an important and stimulating work of scholarship which is essential reading for all those interested in French print culture of the eighteenth century.'SHARP News'In addition to the rich array of eighteenth-century sources evoked, this book is especially strong in its discussion of the limits of visual drama, in particular the way in which the ‘obscene’ functions as an oppositional construct that presupposes the prevailing code of bienséance.'French Studies, Volume 65, Issue 1Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction: viewing pleasure1. The theatre apparatus and masochistic spectatorship2. Tancrède and tout montrer3. Spectacle, artifice and genre4. Masochism and the Sadean tableau5. Limits of a visual theatre6. Reading pleasure7. A theatre of the sublimeConclusionAppendix: a chronology of Sade’s playsBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation LAnalogie et le probable pens233e et 233criture
Book SynopsisTrade Review'The work is scholarly in tone, the background research is thorough, and the author’s meaning is always clear. In brief, this is a serious and informative study that achieves its stated objectives.'Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsTable des illustrationsListe des abréviationsIntroduction1. Le probable et l’analogie2. Apprendre par l’analogie3. Interpréter par analogie4. L’analogie rêvée: Le Rêve de D’Alembert5. Une esthétique du probable? Jacques le fatalisteConclusionsListe des ouvrages citésIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Remapping the Rise of the European Novel
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Le Roman v233ritable strat233gies pr233facielles
Book SynopsisTrade Review'One of the great virtues of the book is that it moves us away from self-congratulatory accounts of naive eighteenth-century readers and acknowledges the sophistication of the period’s aesthetic strategies […] There is a real spirit of intellectual generosity, collective endeavour, and dialogue in Le Roman véritable, in keeping with the spirit of the Republic of Letters.''Eighteenth-Century Fiction'J. Herman fait l’hypthèse que la figure de l’enfant trouvé est à comprendre comme métaphore des ‘problèmes fondamentaux qui ont nourris les querelles entre romanciers et critiques dont s’est entourée la vogue du roman-mémoires entre la fin du XVIIe siècle et le debut du XIXe’ […] on voit à quelles passionnantes enquêtes J. Herman nous appelle.'Eighteenth-Century Fiction'[a] compelling new way to read eighteenth-century French fiction by conducting a sort of virtual genetic criticism […] the various chapters in Section II suggest the versatility of Herman’s method and the breadth of his knowledge.'Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsJan Herman, Introduction générale: ‘ceci n’est pas un roman’I. Les dilemmes du roman1. Mladen Kozul, Le dilemme du roman de Georges May2. Mladen Kozul, Le ‘dilemme du roman’ et la poétique classique3. Jan Herman, Stratégies préfacielles et roman veritableII. Légitimer le roman: l’argument narratifJan Herman, Introduction4. Jan Herman, Le discours devant l’opinion5. Jan Herman, Fictions légitimantes6. Mladen Kozul, Le roman entre orthodoxie et hétérodoxie7. Mladen Kozul, Séduction poétique, séduction amoureuse: du livre au corpsJan Herman, ConclusionIII. Légitimer la fiction: l’argument réflexifNathalie Kremer, Introduction8. Nathalie Kremer, ‘Les charmes de la fiction’: pour une fiction vraisemblable9. Nathalie Kremer, ‘Jamais au spectateur n’offrez rien d’incroyable’: vraisemblance du récit veritable10. Nathalie Kremer, ‘Invraisemblable mais vrai...’: le roman entre vérité et invraisemblance11. Nathalie Kremer, ‘Les incroyables extravagances de la fiction’: le roman invraisemblableNathalie Kremer, ConclusionJan Herman, Conclusions générales: du dilemme du roman au paradoxe de la fiction: roman et mensongeBibliographieIndex
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Liverpool University Press LEspace et la sc232ne dramaturgie de la
Book SynopsisTrade Review'Bret-Vitoz is helpfully attentive to both the variety of works produced in the period and the complex relationship between tragic practice and contemporary dramatic theory. […] Appropriately, given the range and variety of tragic production in the period, Bret-Vitoz chooses a helpfully broad corpus of a hundred primary texts, all of which meet certain criteria of popular dramatic success. […] This is an ambitious book, bringing together a wide range of material yet remaining sensitive to the specificities of individual texts.[…] this is a successful and intelligent work, and a helpul addition to the field.'Modern Language Review, vol. 105, part 4'The author lays to rest the obsolete view of eighteenth-century tragedy as a decadent classical form with a philosophical slant and shows, firstly, why it drew large audiences and, secondly, why most subsequent criticism, in thrall to the theory and prestige of French classicism, failed to understand its particular aesthetic and to explain its volume, its longevity and its appeal to the public [...] This monograph is impeccably erudite, highly informative and interesting to read. It is a valuable addition to the SVEC series and offers a real contribution to our knowledge of the subject. It will have an undoubted impact on future work in the field.'Journal of Eighteenth-Century StudiesTable of ContentsIntroductionI. Du lieu au paysage: l’histoire devient espace1. La variété des espaces tragiquesi. L’espace fictif de la tragédieii. Un renouvellement formel: le temple et l’espace sacréiii. Dépayser et surprendre par l’éloignement ou la proximitéiv. Les espaces décentrés, isolés et ouvertsv. Le paysage composé et praticable2. L’intrusion de la nouvelle histoire sur la scènei. Vérité historique contre vraisemblance extraordinaireii. La recherche d’une nouvelle forme de véritéiii. Le refus du pittoresqueiv. ‘La tragédie est le pays de l’histoire’ (Voltaire)II. L’espace en discours3. Saisir la scène par l’esprit et le regardi. Théories sur l’espace: un changement de perspectiveii. Esquisse d’une histoire du décor tragiqueiii. L’illusion théâtrale: de l’éblouissement visuel à l’analyse de l’émotion4. Action et narration: une redistribution des rôlesi. Spécificité de l’hypotypose dans la tragédieii. Le récit discrédité ou le refus de peindre par les motsiii. Une résistance au visibleIII. L’espace en action5. Echanges entre scène et hors-scènei. De la coulisse à la scène: une incarnation progressiveii. La scène invisible: une troublante confusion des espaces6. Le fractionnnement de l’actioni. Qu’est-ce qu’une ‘scène en action’? L’histoire d’une expressionii. Un usage renforcé de la scène7. Pratique du tableau scénique avant 1759i. Un modèle pictural pour le jeu dramatiqueii. Répartition et déplacement des figures dans le cadreiii. Une partition symbolique de la scèneConclusionAnnexeBibliographieIndex
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Voltaire Foundation Correspondance Generale De La Beaumelle Mai
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Voltaire Foundation Correspondance générale de La Beaumelle 17531754
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation LInvention du sentiment roman et 233conomie
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Discours de l’affecti. Langue et affectii. Langues et émotionsiii. Connaître les émotionsiv. Emotions et cognitionv. Littérature et affect2. Au-delà des passions, et en deçài. L’ère de la passion: le legs du classicismeii. Le tournant du siècle3. Prévost: toute la gamme4. Marivaux: des voies nouvelles5. Crébillon: le jeu des passions6. Sentiment et sensibilité7. Le triomphe du sentiment moralisantAppendice: Eléments de vocabulaireTable 1. Distribution comparée de mots affectifsTable 2. Gamme du vocabulaire affectif dans La Vie de MarianneBibliographieIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation JeanJacques Rousseau en 2012 Puisquenfin mon nom
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe various chapters of this book are of a very high order and represent some of the best recent work on Rousseau by distinguished experts […] There are fresh readings and compelling insights in each one of the chapters, and the book is essential for all those with an interest in Rousseau.- French StudiesA volume of thirteen essays that explores contemporary perspectives and proposes new directions in Rousseau scholarship. […] His well-curated collection draws attention to the vigor and breadth of twenty-first century Rousseau studies by bringing together an eclectic team of Rousseau specialists, including philosophers, musicologists, literary critics and a political theorist, to re-address the place of Rousseau in the intellectual, social and literary history of the Enlightenment.- H-France ReviewTable of ContentsMichael O’Dea, IntroductionI. IdentitésJean-François Perrin, Un questionnement radical de la civilité des Lumières: la question de l’amitié dans la correspondance de Rousseau durant la crise des années 1757-1758Ourida Mostefai, Illumination et Historia calamitatum: postures de l’échec chez RousseauJacques Berchtold, Le procès du faux brillant dans les DialoguesClaude Habib, Emotion feinte, émotion vraiePhilip Stewart, Le moi origine et fin: de la création à l’implosionII. Politique et sociétéBruno Bernardi, Rousseau et la généalogie du concept d'opinion publiqueJohn T. Scott, Emile et les principes du droit politique: le précis partiel du Contrat social et la double visée de la théorie politique de RousseauMichael O’Dea, L’intérêt chez Rousseau: une réhabilitation en coursIII. Musique et beaux-artsClaude Dauphin, La ‘Chanson nègre’ de Rousseau: une note de lyrisme dans cette humanité déchueJacqueline Waeber, Rousseau copiste de musique: l’envers de l’auteur?Philip Robinson, Jean-Jacques créateur: un autre RousseauIV. Réception et interprétationShojiro Kuwase, La première réception des Confessions de Rousseau et leur mise en rapport avec les écritures du soi: une difficile appropriationFrançois Jacob, De Jean-Jacques à John James: à propos des New Confessions de William BoydAppendiceRésumésBibliographie
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Liverpool University Press Ancients and Moderns in Europe Comparative
Book SynopsisThis book presents a new intellectual history of the dispute, in which authors explore its manifestations across Europe in the arts and sciences, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.By paying close attention to local institutional contexts for the Querelle, contributors yield a complex picture of the larger debate.Trade ReviewReviews 'This volume makes a valuable contribution to scholarship on the Ancients and Moderns debate. In shifting attention away from the more polemical episodes of the dispute and moving beyond national perspectives, it sheds light on the long-term impacts of comparisons between antiquity and modernity on European intellectual life, particularly its impact on the development of disciplinary practices in various fields.' - Intellectual History Review'While the title of this volume at first appears to perpetuate the notion of a clearly identifiable conflict between two opposing intellectual groups, what is offered here is far more nuanced, a consequence of the research project from which it emanated. [...] Rather than treat intellectual history narrowly, this volume, rich in subject matter, looks more broadly.' Katherine A. East, Eighteenth-Century LifeTable of ContentsPaddy Bullard and Alexis Tadié, IntroductionPart I: Ancient knowledge and modern mediations1. Vittoria Feola, The Ancients with the Moderns: Oxford’s approaches to publishing ancient science2. Alexis Tadié, Ancients, Moderns and the language of criticism3. Stéphane Van Damme, Digging authority: archaeological controversies and the recognition of the metropolitan past in early eighteenth-century ParisPart II: Logic and criticism across borders4. Martine Pécharman, From Lockean logic to Cartesian(ised) logic: the case of Locke’s Essay and its contemporary controversial reception5. Marcus Walsh, Scholarly documentation in the Enlightenment: validation and interpretation6. Karen Collis, Reading the Ancients at the turn of the century: the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) and Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736) Part III: Conversing with the Ancients: arts and practices7. Théodora Psychoyou, Ancients and Moderns, Italians and French: the seventeenth-century quarrel over music, its status and transformations8. Elisabeth Lavezzi, Painting and the tripartite model in Charles Perrault’s Parallèle des Anciens et des Modernes9. Paddy Bullard, John Evelyn as modern architect and ancient gardener: ‘Lessons of perpetual practice’10. Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon, Ancient medicine, modern quackery: Bernard Mandeville and the rhetoric of healingPart IV: The persistence of the Quarrel11. Amedeo Quondam, Petrarch and the invention of synchrony12. Karin Kukkonen, Samuel Richardson among the Ancients and Moderns13. Ourida Mostefai, Finding ancient men in modern times: anachronism and the critique of modernity in Rousseau14. Ritchie Robertson, Ancients, Moderns and the future: the Querelle in Germany from Winckelmann to SchillerSummariesBiographies of contributorsBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Linnaeus natural history and the circulation of
Book SynopsisCarl Linnaeus's revolutionised plant nomenclature and classification in the 18th and 19th centuries. This book investigates different aspects of Linnaeus's work, from the technologies of accumulation of both specimen and knowledge, to the work of his many disciples and to his reception in Paris.Table of ContentsList of illustrations and tablesPrefaceNotes on naming conventionsList of abbreviationsIntroduction: de-centring and re-centring Linnaeus, Hanna Hodacs, Kenneth Nyberg and Stéphane Van Damme1. Notebooks, files and slips: Carl Linnaeus and his disciples at work, Isabelle Charmantier2. What is a botanical author? Pehr Osbeck’s travelogue and the culture of collaborative publishing in Linnaean botany, Bettina Dietz3. The price of Linnaean natural history: materiality, commerce and change, Hanna Hodacs4. In the name of Linnaeus: Paris as a disputed capital of natural knowledge (1730-1789), Stéphane Van Damme5. On the use and abuse of natural history: Linnaean science in Kant’s Königsberg, Jonas Gerlings6. The Edinburgh connection: Linnaean natural history, Scottish moral philosophy and the colonial implications of Enlightenment thought, Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan7. Negotiating people, plants and empires: the fieldwork of Johann Gerhard König in South and South East Asia (1768-1785), Niklas Thode Jensen8. Lives of useful curiosity: the global legacy of Pehr Löfling in the long eighteenth century, Kenneth Nyberg and Manuel Lucena GiraldoSummariesBibliography of works citedIndex
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Liverpool University Press Rebuilding postRevolutionary Italy Leopardi and
Book SynopsisFocusing on the legacy of Giambattista Vico in post-revolutionary Italian and European culture, this book investigates unexplored reading practices and the circulation of Vico-related themes in early nineteenth-century culture, both in Italy and Europe, delineating an overlooked strain of the European philosophical tradition.Trade Review'Piperno’s study is extremely wide-ranging; yet, along the many routes explored (from the Homeric question and the rise of modern philology, to political and religious appropriations), the objective is always clear: one must rethink the plethora of discourses shaping the reception of an author. […] As we reach the conclusion, Piperno brings together this variety of responses within a steady methodological framework, making a fundamental contribution to today’s scholarship.' Daniela Cerimonia, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsNote on conventionsIntroductioni. Vico’s legacy, Vico’s ‘heir’ii. Diffractioniii. The structure of this work1. Forms of Italian modernityi. The power of the originsii. Belief2. Principiumi. The pride, the origins and the destiny of the nationii. Epics, poetry, creation and nation-building3. Fictioi. Redefining fictionii. Translating and mediating the ancient worldiii. Was Vico Classicist or Romantic?iv. Fiction and/as belief4. Mythosi. Mytho-logein: Vico and Leopardi as mythologistsii. Towards ‘Alla Primavera’: Leopardi’s itineraries in myth (1815-1818)iii. ‘Alla Primavera’: about (un)poetic logic5. Philology and eposi. Florence 1827-1828: refoundation, recovery, reconstructionii. Zibaldone 4311-4417: Leopardi inside Homer’s system6. Recoursei. Rereading Vico in post-Revolutionary Naples: history, progress, perfectibilityii. ‘Cantare la religione civile’: Vico’s ideas in poetryiii. Regress, disbelief and fable in Leopardi’s last worksConclusionBibliographyIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Eighteenth Century English Literature
Book Synopsis* Introduction to the literature of the eighteenth century and its cultural, social and political contexts. * Ties literary developments to the shaping of modernity during the period, including the growth of cities, global trade and travel, and rights for women, workers and slaves.Trade Review“an admirably lucid and up-to-date guide to the field” The Year's Work in English Studies "Sussman's study of 18th-century literature is very readable and clear as it is free from obfuscating theoretical jargon. It addresses a large market of general as well as academic readers, and even experienced and widely-read scholars and teachers, ever in danger of dogmatic stasis, will profit enormously from its new readings and occasional provocations" Anglistik "Professor Sussman has written an admirably lucid, lively book which conveys an enormous amount of up-to-the minute scholarship with concision, elegance, and lightness of touch. The book combines well selected thematic discussions and detailed readings of essential texts, with fascinating historical material in ways that will answer the readers' questions and open out vistas for further reading and research. A valuable introduction to the literature of this period for undergraduate and postgraduate readers." Karen O'Brien University of Warwick "Eighteenth-Century English Literature by Charlotte Sussman is an outstanding introduction to eighteenth-century literature: sophisticated, contemporary, but also accessible. The book would make a wonderful supplement to a course on eighteenth-century literature, either graduate or undergraduate, and offers much of interest to the curious general reader as well." Laura Rosenthal, University of MarylandTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vi Introduction 1 1 National Identity and a National Literature 9 2 Print Culture and the Public Sphere 41 3 The City 63 4 The Countryside 90 5 Individuality and Imagination 114 6 Religious Experience 136 7 Female Sexuality and Domesticity 156 8 Wit and Sensibility 185 9 Trade and Travel 205 10 Colonialism and Slavery 232 Notes 262 Index 280
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Napoleon the Novelist
Book SynopsisThis brilliantly original study uncovers a side to Napoleon Bonaparte which has hitherto been ignored by biographers -- that of the aspiring novelist and man of letters.Trade Review'Napoleon the Novelist is a delightful, dashing after-dinner speech for the cognoscenti ... This is a refreshing book for the sheer entertainment it provides and for its many real insights. To an academic who spends more than his fair share of time in airports, this made welcome reading - and that is a compliment in full.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'Napoleon ... was a writer who complained that his life left him too little time for writing. His two fictions ... together with miscellaneous essays, reveal a mind obedient to the conventions and sensibilities of the 18th Century, whereas his career ushered in the as yet unfledged 19th. This mutation, from amateur to an originality of purpose so complete that it continues to amaze, was also a template for other desires that were to fashion new laws of creativity. It is likely that without his example the Romantic movement as we know it would have failed to emerge in the form, or forms, now so familiar ... [This book] gives full weight to the power of myth, of the glamour that surrounds and occasionally obscures the facts. Although many of Napoleon's campaigns were inconclusive - and some disastrous - the myth endures and is still mysteriously relevant.' Anita Brookner, The Daily Telegraph 'Andy Martin's wicked comic intelligence plays on two keyboards at once. With one hand he trills his way through Napoleon's long-forgotten literary career, while with the other he improvises on the assorted myths and fantasies that the Emperor bequeathed to Europe. What is astonishing about the whole performance, however, is that all this surface animation sharpens the impact of Martin's underlying tragic theme: that battlefields are fictive scenarios in which only the corpses are real.' Malcolm Bowie, All Souls College, Oxford 'There is nothing new in the eagerness of politicians to exploit literature for their own ends. Indeed a particularly extreme case has been examined by Andy Martin in his fascinating new book Napoleon the Novelist. The political and military career of Napoleon, Martin argues, was largely shaped by his thwarted ambitions as a visionary, thinker and writer of fiction.' Terence Blacker, The Independent 'The dichotomy between reality and perception is the theme of Andy Martin's witty study, Napoleon the Novelist ... [an] engaging thesis about Napoleon's literary culture.' Literary Review 'Martin provides an entertaining tour of Napoleonic obsessions.' London Review of BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. I, Napoleon. 1. A Prize for Happiness. 2. Islands and Continents. 3. Mind over Matter. 4. Mentioned in Dispatches. 5. The Third Man. 6. Death of the Author. Epitaphs. Sources and Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Shakespeare and Music
Book SynopsisA study of the many genres and contexts in which Shakespeare and his work have enjoyed a musical afterlife. The fascinating book discusses opera, ballet, and classical symphony alongside musicals, film soundtracks and hip-hop.Trade Review"Shakespreare and Music is about afterlives, in quotations, borrowings, citations, adaptations, all of it after Shakespeare’s own lifetime. It is also about reception and interpretation, re-imagining, appropriation, in Verdi of course, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, and then on contemporary films, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn. This is at once a learned book, an original contribution to learning, and a story that lovers of Shakespeare and music will enjoy and profit from. It is a real success: gracefully written, elegant, intelligent, witty." David Bevington, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsAcknowledgements viii Prelude 1 1 ‘All That Jazz’: Shakespeare and Musical Adaptation 11 2 Classical Shakespeares 29 3 ‘Shall we dance?’: Shakespeare at the Ballet 59 4 ‘Shakespeare with a contemporary musical twist’ 73 5 Shakespeare in the Opera House 96 6 Giuseppe Verdi and Benjamin Britten: Case Studies in Shakespearean Opera 112 7 Symphonic Film Scores 135 8 ‘You know the movie song’: Contemporary and Hybrid Film Scores 159 9 Contemporary Music and Popular Culture 182 Coda 194 Glossary of Musical Terms 198 Bibliography 202 Discography 214 Filmography 219 Index 221
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Shakespeare and Music Afterlives and Borrowings
Book SynopsisA study of the many genres and contexts in which Shakespeare and his work have enjoyed a musical afterlife. The fascinating book discusses opera, ballet, and classical symphony alongside musicals, film soundtracks and hip-hop.Trade Review"Shakespreare and Music is about afterlives, in quotations, borrowings, citations, adaptations, all of it after Shakespeare’s own lifetime. It is also about reception and interpretation, re-imagining, appropriation, in Verdi of course, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, and then on contemporary films, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn. This is at once a learned book, an original contribution to learning, and a story that lovers of Shakespeare and music will enjoy and profit from. It is a real success: gracefully written, elegant, intelligent, witty." David Bevington, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsAcknowledgements viii Prelude 1 1 ‘All That Jazz’: Shakespeare and Musical Adaptation 11 2 Classical Shakespeares 29 3 ‘Shall we dance?’: Shakespeare at the Ballet 59 4 ‘Shakespeare with a contemporary musical twist’ 73 5 Shakespeare in the Opera House 96 6 Giuseppe Verdi and Benjamin Britten: Case Studies in Shakespearean Opera 112 7 Symphonic Film Scores 135 8 ‘You know the movie song’: Contemporary and Hybrid Film Scores 159 9 Contemporary Music and Popular Culture 182 Coda 194 Glossary of Musical Terms 198 Bibliography 202 Discography 214 Filmography 219 Index 221
£17.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd New Wave Shakespeare on Screen
Book SynopsisThe past fifteen years have witnessed a diverse group of experiments in 'staging' Shakespeare on film. New Wave Shakespeare on Screen introduces and applies the new analytic techniques and language that are required to make sense of this new wave.Trade Review"Tom Cartelli and Katherine Rowe are outstanding guides to the fascinating (and often daunting) cinematic world of ‘New Wave Shakespeare.’ Rich in insight and elegantly argued, this is by far the best book I’ve read about Shakespeare on film." James Shapiro, Columbia University, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare "In case anyone thought the tide was ebbing on Shakespeare and film, here are Cartelli and Rowe riding the ‘new wave’ like pro surfers. As brilliant as film analysts as in their understanding of Shakespeare and his current cultural contexts, they are expert guides to a fascinating range of film adaptations and to subtle and provocative ways of thinking about the motive to adapt Shakespeare, about the strategies these films use, and about the theoretical models we can use to understand them. I learned much from every chapter – and so will my students as they engage in my courses with all that this book so clearly and helpfully encourages them to consider." Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame "Though now well established as an important branch of Shakespeare research and instruction, the study of Shakespeare on film has to keep moving to keep abreast of technological change, fresh talent and new audiences. By focusing on work that is contemporary, innovative and experimental, Cartelli and Rowe shift the paradigms of Shakespeare on film, and facilitate new interactions between critical, cultural, textual and media studies." Graham Holderness, University of Hertfordshire, author of Visual ShakespeareTable of ContentsPlays and Films Featured in Chapters. List of Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgements. Preface. Introduction: New Wave Shakespeare on and off Screen. Chapter 1: Beyond Branagh and the BBC. multiplying canons. Chapter 2: Adaptation as a Cultural Process. conceptual and critical resources • revival • recycling. Chapter 3: Hamlet Rewound. anachronism • tradition and “modernity” • remediation and memory • new media • underground cinema. Chapter 4: Colliding Time and Space in Julie Taymor’s Titus. allusion • interpolation • citational environments • conceptual art • ghosting • surrogation. new media • expressionist film. Chapter 5: Vernacular Shakespeare. parody, burlesque, and masquerade,• docudrama • popular culture sound • riffing • sampling. Chapter 6: Channeling Othello. televisuality • surrogation • character function and effect • voiceover • race and performance. Chapter 7: Surviving Shakespeare: Kristian Levring’s The King is Alive. documentary and experimental film • voiceover • cultural memory • character function and effect • subtitles • substitution and translation. Works Cited. Films, Videos, DVDs, Television Cited. Notes. References. Resources. Index
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd New Wave Shakespeare on Screen
Book SynopsisThe past fifteen years have witnessed a diverse group of experiments in 'staging' Shakespeare on film. New Wave Shakespeare on Screen introduces and applies the new analytic techniques and language that are required to make sense of this new wave.Trade Review"Tom Cartelli and Katherine Rowe are outstanding guides to the fascinating (and often daunting) cinematic world of ‘New Wave Shakespeare.’ Rich in insight and elegantly argued, this is by far the best book I’ve read about Shakespeare on film." James Shapiro, Columbia University, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare "In case anyone thought the tide was ebbing on Shakespeare and film, here are Cartelli and Rowe riding the ‘new wave’ like pro surfers. As brilliant as film analysts as in their understanding of Shakespeare and his current cultural contexts, they are expert guides to a fascinating range of film adaptations and to subtle and provocative ways of thinking about the motive to adapt Shakespeare, about the strategies these films use, and about the theoretical models we can use to understand them. I learned much from every chapter – and so will my students as they engage in my courses with all that this book so clearly and helpfully encourages them to consider." Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame "Though now well established as an important branch of Shakespeare research and instruction, the study of Shakespeare on film has to keep moving to keep abreast of technological change, fresh talent and new audiences. By focusing on work that is contemporary, innovative and experimental, Cartelli and Rowe shift the paradigms of Shakespeare on film, and facilitate new interactions between critical, cultural, textual and media studies." Graham Holderness, University of Hertfordshire, author of Visual ShakespeareTable of ContentsPlays and Films Featured in Chapters. List of Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgements. Preface. Introduction: New Wave Shakespeare on and off Screen. Chapter 1: Beyond Branagh and the BBC. multiplying canons. Chapter 2: Adaptation as a Cultural Process. conceptual and critical resources • revival • recycling. Chapter 3: Hamlet Rewound. anachronism • tradition and “modernity” • remediation and memory • new media • underground cinema. Chapter 4: Colliding Time and Space in Julie Taymor’s Titus. allusion • interpolation • citational environments • conceptual art • ghosting • surrogation. new media • expressionist film. Chapter 5: Vernacular Shakespeare. parody, burlesque, and masquerade,• docudrama • popular culture sound • riffing • sampling. Chapter 6: Channeling Othello. televisuality • surrogation • character function and effect • voiceover • race and performance. Chapter 7: Surviving Shakespeare: Kristian Levring’s The King is Alive. documentary and experimental film • voiceover • cultural memory • character function and effect • subtitles • substitution and translation. Works Cited. Films, Videos, DVDs, Television Cited. Notes. References. Resources. Index
£21.84
Liverpool University Press Romeo and Juliet
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Liverpool University Press The Merchant of Venice
Book SynopsisThis book shows how directors, actors, and critics have sought by various strategies to exorcise the demon of anti-semitism.
£18.69
Liverpool University Press Othello
Book SynopsisIn this study Emma Smith teases out instances of doubleness, duplication and paradox in Othello.
£18.69
Liverpool University Press William Shakespeares Antony and Cleopatra
Book SynopsisKenneth Parker gives a historical and critical exposition of commentaries of the play. of ‘Rome’ as the measure by which it, as well as ‘Egypt’ should be read) are not simply questioned, but instead, close reading of the text of the play providesa comprehensive set of alternative readings based upon mostly postcolonial and feminist theories.
£18.69
Liverpool University Press William Shakespeares Hamlet
Book SynopsisThis extensively annotated version of Hamlet to date makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century.
£18.69
Johns Hopkins University Press The Frame of Art Fictions of Aesthetic Experience
Book SynopsisMarshall asks what it means for these authors to view the world through the frame of art.Trade ReviewThis is a beautifully written and beautifully argued book... I come away from it with a new perception. -- Cynthia Wall Studies in English Literature 2006 Marshall demonstrates an enviable facility with the English, French, and German canon, and at points produces close readings of difficult texts that are nothing short of tour de force. -- Richard Kroll Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2007 The Frame of Art has already received a major accolade: the Louis Gottschalk Prize awarded by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. It is not hard to see why. -- Richard Kroll Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2007 This book succeeds so brilliantly in its interpretative perspectives. -- Stefan H. Uhlig Modern Philology 2008 Thought-provoking and scrupulously researched. -- Denise Gigante Eighteenth-Century Studies 2007Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Problem of Aesthetic Experience Chapter 1. The Problem of the Picturesque Chapter 2. The Impossible Work of Art: Kames, Pope, Lessing Chapter 3. True Acting and the Language of Real Feeling: Mansfield Park Chapter 4. Fatal Letters: Clarissa and the Death of JulieChapter 5. The Business of Tragedy: Accounting for Sentiment in Julia de Roubigné Chapter 6. Writing Masters and "Masculine Exercises" in The Female Quixote Chapter 7. Arguing by Analogy: Hume's Standard of Taste AcknowledgmentsNotes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain
Book SynopsisIn illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.Trade ReviewCompelling and interesting... Like a latter-day Isaac D'Israeli, Looser explores many byways of 18th- and early-19th century authorship and publication. Accordingly, specialists in those periods will find here a trove of useful, thought-provoking historical anecdote. Choice 2009 So meticulously researched and her prose so pleasantly lucid and unassuming... Looser crafts a convincing argument for the reexamination of women writers like Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Porter, and Anna Letitia Barbauld, paying closer attention to their later lives and works. -- Jeanine M. Casler Papers on Language and Literature 2009 Engaging and clearly written, Looser's book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of what it meant to be an elderly female writer in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries while also identifying important considerations of fact and methodology often overlooked without the perspective of age studies. -- Kay Heath Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 2009 The book's lively introduction offers plenty of promise. Looser conveys considerable enthusiasm about her subject and the impressive archival research she conducted for Women Writers and Old Age. Throughout the six chapters, Looser maintains a lucid and engaging style that many contemporary scholars might well emulate. -- Marilyn Roberts Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 2009 Devoney Looser is one of the best at bringing together biographical evidence, sophisticated theory, and literary sensibility. -- Paula R. Backscheider Studies in English Literature 2009 Devoney Looser has written an extremely important book that sensitively explores ageism and the literary marketplace just when the Mothers of the Novel were writing their final chapters. -- Laurie Kaplan JASNA News 2009 Elegant and original study... Looser not only offers a fresh perspective on individual reputations but raises intriguing questions about the procession of 'generations' in literary history. -- Elizabeth Eger Times Literary Supplement 2009 One of the strengths of Women Writers and Old Age is Looser's uncompromising willingness to acknowledge how difficult it was for older women writers to triumph over the cultural forces ranged against them. -- Roxanne Eberle Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 2010 This is a thought-provoking... contribution not only to old age and gender studies but also to the literary history of the long 18th century. -- Anne-Julia Zwierlein Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik 2010 Wide-ranging and scrupulous book explores a neglected and fascinating subject. -- Caroline Gonda Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2010 Although Looser's assumptions may not be shared by every reader, the book is so well informed and ends with such a vast bibliography that everyone stands to learn by it. -- Marialuisa Bignami Modern Language Review 2010 Women Writers in Old Age, 1750-1850, provides a valuable contribution to the nascent field of study. -- Patricia Murphy Nineteenth-Century Literature 2009 With Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850... Devoney Looser is one of the best at bringing together biographical evidence, sophisticated theory, and literary sensibility. -- Paula R. Backscheider Studies in English Literature 2009 A groundbreaking study of the late careers of women writers. Year's Work in English Studies 2010 A well-written, imaginative, carefully researched, and fascinating study. -- Lisa Vargo Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 2009Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Women Writers and Old Age, 1750-18501. Past the Period of Choosing to Write a "Love-tale"? Frances Burney's and Maria Edgeworth's Late Fiction2. Catharine Macaulay's Waning Laurels3. What Is Old in Jane Austen?4. Hester Lynch Piozzi, Antiquity of Bath5. "One generation passeth away, and another cometh": Anna Letitia Barbauld's Late Literary Work6. Jane Porter and the Old Woman Writer's Quest for Financial IndependenceConclusion: "Old women now-a-days are not much thought of; out of sight out of mind with them, now-a-days"NotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Toronto Press Shakespeare in Canada
Book SynopsisThe first work to engage Shakespeare with distinctly Canadian debates addressing nationalism, separatism, cultural appropriation, cultural nationalism, feminism, and postcolonialism.Table of Contents* Preface - Diane Bryden and Irena R. Makaryk* Introduction: Shakespeare in Canada: 'aworld elsewhere'? - Irena R. Makaryk* Part One: Beginnings: Institutionalizing Shakespeare* Pioneer Shakespeare Culture: The Reverend Henry Scadding and His Shakespeare Display at the 1892 Toronto Industrial Exhibition - Heather Murray* The Imperial Theme: The Shakespeare Society of Toronto,1928-1969 - Karen Bamford*'A Stage for the Word': Shakespeare on CBC Radio, 1947-1955 - Marta Straznicky* Stratford and the Aspirations for a Canadian National Theatre - Margaret Groome* Shakespeare Canadiens at the Stratford Festival - C.E. McGee* A National Hamlet?: Stratford's Legacy of Twentieth-Century Productions - Jessica Schagerl* Part Two: Shakespeare On Stage*'Le Re-making' of le Grand Will: Shakespeare in Francophone Quebec - Leanore Lieblein* Learning to Curse in Accurate Iambics: Shakespeare in Newfoundland - Peter Ayers* Liberal Spectators and Illiberal Critiques: Necessary Angel's King Lear - Michael McKinnie* Part Three: Critical Debates and Traditions* Continuity and Contradiction: University Actors Meet the Universal Bard - Anthony B. Dawson* Canadian Bacon - Paul Yachnin and Brent E. Whitted* Canada, Negative Capability, and Cymbeline - Alexander Leggatt* Frye's Shakespeare, Frye's Canada - L.M. Findlay* Part Four: Reimagining Shakespeare* Nation and/as Adaptation: Shakespeare, Canada, and Authenticity - Daniel Fischlin* Undead and Unsafe: Adapting Shakespeare (in Canada) - Mark Fortier* Normand Chaurette's Les Reines: Shakespeare and the Modern in the Alchemical Oven - Lois Sherlow* Othello in Three Times - Ric Knowles* Afterword: Relocating Shakespeare, Redefining Canada - Diana Brydon
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University of Toronto Press The Myth of Deliverance
Book SynopsisIn these essays Northrop Frye addresses a question which preoccupied him throughout his long and distinguished career – the conception of comedy, particularly Shakespearean comedy, and its relation to human experience.In most forms of comedy, and certainly in the New Comedy with which Shakespeare was concerned, the emphasis is on moving towards a climax in which the end incorporates the beginning. Such a climax is a vision of deliverance or expanded energy and freedom. Frye draws on the Aristotelian notion of reversal, or peripeteia, to analyse the three plays commonly known as the 'problem comedies': Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, and Troilus and Cressida, showing how they anticipate the romances of Shakespeare's final period.
£19.79
University of Nebraska Press Separation Scenes Domestic Drama in Early Modern
Book SynopsisThis analysis of five exemplary domestic plays offers a new approach to the emerging ideology of the private and public, or what Ann C. Christensen terms “the tragedy of the separate spheres”. Separation Scenes exposes the intimate and disruptive relationships between the domestic culture and business culture of early modern England.Trade Review"Christensen's study is a welcome addition to the excellent studies of early modern domestic drama that have appeared in recent years . . . especially in its fresh readings of, and original insights into, plays that are now receiving much deserved, though delayed, attention."—Iman Sheeha, English"Separation Scenes is strong, and necessary, in the way that it "notices" and analyzes aspects of these plays that tend to be ignored in our focus on their erring female protagonists, but which are crucial to understanding those same characters."—Margaret Mikesell, Renaissance Quarterly"By layering a historical account of gender, sexuality, and marriage in the period with analyses of domestic labor, domestic space, and the geography of urban commerce, Christensen is able to provide a powerful model of a feminist reading practice."—Henry S. Turner, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900"Separation Scenes is useful for its attention to domestic spaces, marital relations, and economic conditions in the early modern period."—Joseph F. Stephenson, Sixteenth Century Journal"Given the significance of sex and money to the exploration of commercial travel and separation, Christensen's observations will likely also prove of interest to those working on city comedies, which share those themes, as well as to those interested in poetry, marriage treatises, ballads, and other writings from this period that fall outside the domestic drama genealogy, but share many of its concerns. So too, the tension between absent husbands and stay-at-home wives reverberates through a myriad of more recent writing, suggesting that Christensen's informative and vibrant study of the impact of globalization on domestic economies and structures will have broad and ongoing relevance."—Aoise Stratford, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism"Ann C. Christensen’s Separation Scenes: Domestic Drama in Early Modern England adds to excellent recent studies of domestic drama."—Jennifer Cryar, The Year’s Work in English Studies“With one brilliant insight, Separation Scenes demonstrates the entanglement of the global and the domestic in the Elizabethan and Jacobean years. Ann Christensen’s readings of key domestic plays are both entirely fresh and historically true.”—Lena Cowen Orlin, professor of English at Georgetown University, executive director of the Shakespeare Association of America, and author of Locating Privacy in Tudor London “Thorough, original, and revelatory, Separation Scenes brings to life the domestic drama of early modern England and elegantly illuminates a history of domesticity that includes the labors of women and men within and, crucially, far beyond the thresholds of the home.”—Ariane M. Balizet, associate professor of English at Texas Christian University and author of Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama: Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage “Ann C. Christensen provides the best and most original study of early modern domestic tragedy to date. . . . Christensen allows us to see with greater clarity how the emergence of the ‘domestic’ is closely entangled with the rise of the ‘global.’ This is an important intervention.”—Jonathan Gil Harris, dean of academic affairs and professor of English at Ashoka University and author of Shakespeare and Literary Theory Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Absent Husbands and Unpartnered Wives in Early Modern England 1. Housekeeping and Forlorn Travel in Arden of Faversham 2. The Doorstep and the Exchange in A Warning for Fair Women 3. One Man’s Calling in A Woman Killed with Kindness 4. Women, Work, and Windows in Women Beware Women 5. The East India Company and the Domestic Economy in The Launching of the Mary, or The Seaman’s Honest Wife Epilogue: John and Anne Donne and the Culture of Business Notes Bibliography Index
£45.00
Stanford University Press Shakespeare
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