Author: Helen Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-04
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1108842763
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers new readings of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy by considering its design features alongside broader developments in eighteenth-century book production.
Author: Carol Margaret Davison
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2009-06-01
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 1783163879
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to classic British Gothic literature and the popular sub-category of the Female Gothic designed for the student reader. Works by such classic Gothic authors as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley are examined against the backdrop of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British social and political history and significant intellectual/cultural developments. Identification and interpretation of the Gothic’s variously reconfigured major motifs and conventions is provided alongside suggestions for further critical reading, a timeline of notable Gothic-related publications, and consideration of various theoretical approaches.
Author: Cynthia Sundberg Wall
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-10-01
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 022622502X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in Robinson Crusoe is an object—a large earthenware pot. Woolf and other critics pointed out that early modern prose is full of things but bare of setting and description. Explaining how the empty, unvisualized spaces of such writings were transformed into the elaborate landscapes and richly upholstered interiors of the Victorian novel, Cynthia Sundberg Wall argues that the shift involved not just literary representation but an evolution in cultural perception. In The Prose of Things, Wall analyzes literary works in the contexts of natural science, consumer culture, and philosophical change to show how and why the perception and representation of space in the eighteenth-century novel and other prose narratives became so textually visible. Wall examines maps, scientific publications, country house guides, and auction catalogs to highlight the thickening descriptions of domestic interiors. Considering the prose works of John Bunyan, Samuel Pepys, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, David Hume, Ann Radcliffe, and Sir Walter Scott, The Prose of Things is the first full account of the historic shift in the art of describing.
Author: Peter de Voogd
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2008-12-22
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 184714599X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive volume of international research on the European reception of Laurence Sterne.