Author: Thomas Keymer
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781851966158
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Thomas Keymer
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781851966158
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter Sabor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-09-21
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1108327168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the publication of his novel Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded in 1740, Samuel Richardson's place in the English literary tradition has been secured. But how can that place best be described? Over the three centuries since embarking on his printing career the 'divine' novelist has been variously understood as moral crusader, advocate for women, pioneer of the realist novel and print innovator. Situating Richardson's work within these social, intellectual and material contexts, this new volume of essays identifies his centrality to the emergence of the novel, the self-help book, and the idea of the professional author, as well as his influence on the development of the modern English language, the capitalist economy, and gendered, medicalized, urban, and national identities. This book enables a fuller understanding and appreciation of Richardson's life, work and legacy, and points the way for future studies of one of English literature's most celebrated novelists.
Author: John L. Locke
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2010-06-24
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0191613665
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why we can't resist listening in on our neighbours Eavesdropping has a bad name. It is a form of human communication in which the information gained is stolen, and where such words as cheating and spying come into play. But eavesdropping may also be an attempt to understand what goes on in the lives of others so as to know better how to live one's own. John Locke's entertaining and disturbing account explores everything from sixteenth-century voyeurism to Hitchcock's 'Rear Window'; from chimpanzee behaviour to Parisian café society; from private eyes to Facebook and Twitter. He uncovers the biological drive behind the behaviour, and its consequences across history and cultures. In the age of CCTV, phone tapping, and computer hacking, this is uncomfortably important reading.
Author: Tom Keymer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781138761971
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume documents the literary controversy and debate over Samuel Richardson's novel, "Pamela", published in 1741. It brings together and reprints key sources within the debate, including artists such as Francis Hayman, Hubert Gravelot, Joseph Highmore and Philip Mercer.