Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature: The Politics of Private Virtue in the Age of Walpole, Jones Emrys
Автор: Jones Название: Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature ISBN: 1137300493 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137300492 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 83850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar`s Opera, Gulliver`s Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue.
What is the role of literary writing in democratic society?
Building upon his previous work on the emergence of "literature," Trevor Ross offers a history of how the public function of literature changed as a result of developing press freedoms during the period from 1760 to 1810. Writing in Public examines the laws of copyright, defamation, and seditious libel to show what happened to literary writing once certain forms of discourse came to be perceived as public and entitled to freedom from state or private control.
Ross argues that--with liberty of expression becoming entrenched as a national value--the legal constraints on speech had to be reconceived, becoming less a set of prohibitions on its content than an arrangement for managing the public sphere. The public was free to speak on any subject, but its speech, jurists believed, had to follow certain ground rules, as formalized in laws aimed at limiting private ownership of culturally significant works, maintaining civility in public discourse, and safeguarding public deliberation from the coercions of propaganda. For speech to be truly free, however, there had to be an enabling exception to the rules.
Since the late eighteenth century, Ross suggests, the role of this exception has been performed by the idea of literature. Literature is valued as the form of expression that, in allowing us to say anything and in any form, attests to our liberty. Yet, paradoxically, it is only by occupying no definable place within the public sphere that literature can remain as indeterminate as the public whose self-reinvention it serves.
Challenging the ‘success story’ of curiosity from original sin to intellectual virtue, this study uses an innovative methodological approach to the history of ideas as a non-teleological neural network based on current research in information technology and neurophysiology. The network offers a dynamic alternative to the ‘development’ of curiosity within the progress-oriented mythology of the Enlightenment, emphasizing the oscillation and interaction of ideas within the processes of their construction, as well as exposing the power relations behind them.
The text corpus focuses on enactments of curiosity in English literature of the 'Long' Eighteenth Century (c. 1680-1818), such as transgression of boundaries, breach of taboo, gendered curiosity, sensationalism, or academic endeavour, bringing together a variety of examples from all major genres.
The Age of Curiosity contributes to current debates on a post-Foucauldian renewal of Lovejoy’s history of ideas in Enlightenment studies, exploring both curiosity as an indispensable trait for the search of answers to the fundamental yet unresolved questions of ‘identity’ or ‘truth’, and its potential as cura, the care for others and the world.
A fascinating analysis of anonymous publication centuries before the digital age
Everywhere and Nowhere considers the ubiquity of anonymity and mediation in the publication and circulation of eighteenth-century British literature--before the Romantic creation of the "author"--and what this means for literary criticism. Anonymous authorship was typical of the time, yet literary scholars and historians have been generally unable to account for it as anything more than a footnote or curiosity.
Mark Vareschi shows the entangled relationship between mediation and anonymity, revealing the nonhuman agency of the printed text. Drawing richly on quantitative analysis and robust archival work, Vareschi brings together philosophy, literary theory, and media theory in a trenchant analysis, uncovering a history of textual engagement and interpretation that does not hinge on the known authorial subject.
In discussing anonymous poetry, drama, and the novel along with anonymously published writers such as Daniel Defoe, Frances Burney, and Walter Scott, he unveils a theory of mediation that renews broader questions about agency and intention. Vareschi argues that textual intentionality is a property of nonhuman, material media rather than human subjects alone, allowing the anonymous literature of the eighteenth century to speak to contemporary questions of meaning in the philosophy of language. Vareschi closes by exploring dubious claims about the death of anonymity and the reexplosion of anonymity with the coming of the digital. Ultimately, Everywhere and Nowhere reveals the long history of print anonymity so central to the risks and benefits of the digital culture.
In Infamous Commerce, Laura J. Rosenthal uses literature to explore the meaning of prostitution from the Restoration through the eighteenth century, showing how both reformers and libertines constructed the modern meaning of sex work during this period. From Grub Street's lurid "whore biographies" to the period's most acclaimed novels, the prostitute was depicted as facing a choice between abject poverty and some form of sex work. Prostitution, in Rosenthal's view, confronted the core controversies of eighteenth-century capitalism: luxury, desire, global trade, commodification, social mobility, gender identity, imperialism, self-ownership, alienation, and even the nature of work itself.
In the context of extensive research into printed accounts of both male and female prostitution—among them sermons, popular prostitute biographies, satire, pornography, brothel guides, reformist writing, and travel narratives—Rosenthal offers in-depth readings of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and the responses to the latter novel (including Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela), Bernard Mandeville's defenses of prostitution, Daniel Defoe's Roxana, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, and travel journals about the voyages of Captain Cook to the South Seas. Throughout, Rosenthal considers representations of the prostitute's own sexuality (desire, revulsion, etc.) to be key parts of the changing meaning of "the oldest profession."
Автор: Dick Alexander, Lupton Christina Название: Theory and Practice in the Eighteenth Century: Writing Between Philosophy and Literature ISBN: 113866362X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138663626 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 51030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Brings together scholars who use literary interpretation and discourse analysis to read 18th-century British philosophy in its historical context. This work analyses how the philosophers of the Enlightenment viewed their writing; and, how their institutional positions as teachers and writers influenced their understanding of human consciousness.
Introduction: Fashioning the Unfashionable; Allan Ingram and Leigh Wetherall Dickson.- PART I: ENNUI.- 1. '[F]ictitious [D]istress' or Veritable Woe?: The Problem of Eighteenth-Century Ennui; Heather Meek.- 2. 'What is fashionably termed ennui': Maria Edgeworth Represents the Clinically Bored; Jane Taylor.- PART II: DISEASE OF SEXUALITY.- 3. Dean Swift on the Great Pox: or, The Satirist as Physician; Hermann J. Real.- 4. The а la Mode Disease: Syphilis and Temporality; Emily Cock.- 5. Of Fribblers and Fumblers: Fashioning Male Impotence in the Long Eighteenth Century; Kirsten Juhas.- PART III: INFECTIOUS DISEASES.- 6. Fashioning Unfashionable Plague: Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year (1722); Hйlиne Dachez.- 7. How Small is Small? Small Pox, Large Presence; Allan Ingram.- 8. 'Halfe Dead: and rotten at the Coare: my Lord!': Fashionable and Unfashionable Consumption, from Early Modern to Enlightenment; Clark Lawlor.- PART IV: FASHIONING DEATH.- 9. Death by Inoculation: The Fashioning of Mortality in Eighteenth-Century Smallpox Pamphlets; Kelly McGuire.- 10. Fashion Victim: Suicide, Sociability and High Society in Georgiana Cavendish's The Sylph; Leigh Wetherall Dickson.- 11. 'Alas, poor Yorick!': Jonathan Swift, Madness, and Fashionable Science; Helen Deutsch.- Bibliography.- Index.-
Автор: Wolloch Nathaniel Название: History and Nature in the Enlightenment: Praise of the Mastery of Nature in Eighteenth-Century Historical Literature ISBN: 1409421147 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409421146 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 163330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The mastery of nature was viewed by eighteenth-century historians as an important measure of the progress of civilization. Modern scholarship has hitherto taken insufficient notice of this important idea. This book discusses this topic in connection with the mainstream religious, political, and philosophical elements of Enlightenment culture.
Автор: Bryan Mangano Название: Fictions of Friendship in the Eighteenth-Century Novel ISBN: 3319486942 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319486949 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 83850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Analyzing authors, their professional circumstances, and their audiences, the study shows how the rhetoric of friendship became a means of paying deference to the increasing power of readerships, while it also served as a semi-covert means to persuade resistant readers and confront aesthetic and moral debates head on.
Immunity’s Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature tracks flashpoint events in U.S. history, constituting a genealogy of the effectiveness and resilience of the concept of immunity in democratic culture. Rick Rodriguez argues that following the American Revolution the former colonies found themselves subject to foreign and domestic threats imperiling their independence. Wars with North African regencies, responses to the Haitian revolution, reactions to the specter and reality of slave rebellion in the antebellum South, and plans to acquire Cuba to ease tensions between the states all constituted immunizing responses that helped define the conceptual and aesthetic protocols by which the U.S. represented itself to itself and to the world’s nations as distinct, exemplary, and vulnerable. Rodriguez examines these events as expressions of an immunitary logic that was—and still is— frequently deployed to legitimate state authority. Rodriguez identifies contradictions in literary texts’ dramatizations of these transnational events and their attending threats, revealing how democracy’s exposure to its own fragility serves as rationale for immunity’s sovereignty. This book shows how early U.S. literature, often conceived as a delivery system for American exceptionalism, is in effect critical of such immunitary discourses.
Автор: Zorin Andrei Название: By Fables Alone: Literature and State Ideology in Late-Eighteenth a Early-Nineteenth-Century Russia ISBN: 161811803X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781618118035 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 31410.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Presents a translation of Professor Andrei Zorin`s Kormya Dvuglavogo Orla. This collection of essays includes several that have never before appeared in English, including ""The People`s War: The Time of Troubles in Russian Literature, 1806-1807"" and ""Holy Alliances: V.A. Zhukovskii`s Epistle`To Emperor Alexander` and Christian Universalism.
Автор: Wilkinson Hazel Название: Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book ISBN: 1316648915 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316648919 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 33790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This is the first full-length study of the eighteenth-century response to the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser. Hazel Wilkinson discusses editions of Spenser`s work and the response of readers to them, exploring Spenser`s influence on the history of the book and shedding new light on eighteenth-century literature, art, architecture, and music.
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