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This book focuses on the literature produced at the time of the
controversy over Wilkes and the Middlesex elections and by the
debate in England over the French Revolution. Writings by Junius,
Johnson, Burke, Paine, Mackintosh, Wollstonecraft and Arthur Young
among others are examined in order to identify and estimate the
effectiveness of the persuasive techniques used by these writers to
communicate ideas to their respective audiences. Godwin is also
given a new assessment. A view of the extent and urgency over the
French Revolution is provided by the chronological survey of
replies to Burke 's Reflections given in an appendix.
The "Critical Heritage" series gathers together a large body of
critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume
presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling
students and researchers to read for themselves, for example,
comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions
to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected
sources range from essays in the history of criticism to journalism
and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material
such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from
later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the
fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an
introduction to the writer's published works, a selected
bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The
"Collected Critical Heritage" set is available as a set of 68
volumes, as mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) or as
individual volumes.
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This book focuses on the literature produced at the time of the
controversy over Wilkes and the Middlesex elections and by the
debate in England over the French Revolution. Writings by Junius,
Johnson, Burke, Paine, Mackintosh, Wollstonecraft and Arthur Young
among others are examined in order to identify and estimate the
effectiveness of the persuasive techniques used by these writers to
communicate ideas to their respective audiences. Godwin is also
given a new assessment. A view of the extent and urgency over the
French Revolution is provided by the chronological survey of
replies to Burke's Reflections given in an appendix.
This book provides a selection of private letters written to family
and friends from a variety of people while they were on the Grand
Tour in the eighteenth century. Although many have been published
previously, this is the first time that letters of this kind have
been brought together in a single volume. Readers can compare the
various responses of travellers to the sights, pleasures and
discomforts encountered on the journey. People of diverse
backgrounds, with different expectations and interests, give
personal accounts of their particular experiences of the Grand
Tour. Unlike most collections of letters from the Tour, which
recount the views of a single person, this selection emphasises
diversity. Readers can juxtapose for example the letters of a
conscientious young nobleman like Lyttelton with those of the
excitable philanderer Boswell, or the well-travelled aristocratic
lady, Caroline Lennox. While the travellers represented here follow
much the same route via Paris, through France and across the Alps
via the terrifying Mount Cenis, to Rome, in the pursuit of learning
and pleasure, the Tour turns out to mean something quite different
to each of them.
This volume contains 848 letters from the period June 1921 to March 1924. Lawrence decides to leave the old world - ‘my heart - and my soul are broken in Europe’ - to live in Taos, New Mexico. This period is characterised by the travelling he and Frieda do, from Australia to New York, via Mexico, back to England and finally to New York again. Lawrence’s writings of the period reflect his restlessness. The action of Aaron’s Rod shifts from a coal-mining town in England to Florence and Kangaroo conveys Lawrence’s perceptions of Australia. By 1924, Lawrence is returning to Taos to write his Mexican novel, ‘Quetzacoatl’, published as The Plumed Serpent. His difficulties with agents and publishers continue to appear in the letters. New correspondences are started with Australians, including Mollie Skinner, the co-author of The Boy in the Bush, and Americans, such as Mabel Luhan, Idella Purnell and Witter Bynner.
In his last years D. H. Lawrence often wrote for newspapers; he
needed the money, and clearly enjoyed the work. He also wrote
several substantial essays during the same period. This
meticulously-edited collection brings together major essays such as
Pornography and Obscenity and Lawrence's spirited Introduction to
the volume of his Paintings; a group of autobiographical pieces,
two of which are published here for the first time; and the
articles Lawrence wrote at the invitation of newspaper and magazine
editors. There are thirty-nine items in total, thirty-five of them
deriving from original manuscripts; all were written between 1926
and Lawrence's death in March 1930. They are ordered
chronologically according to the date of composition; each is
preceded by an account of the circumstances in which it came to be
published. The volume is introduced by a substantial survey of
Lawrence's career as a writer responding directly to public
interests and concerns.
In his Enquiry --which has been described as "certainly on of the
most important aesthetic documents that eighteenth -century England
produced" --the young Burke provided a systematic analysis of the
'sublime' and the 'beautiful,' together with a distinctive
terminology which served to express certain facets of the changing
sensibility of his time. The introduction traces the main sources
of Burke's ideas and establishes the nature of his originality. The
largest section of the editor's introduction, however, examines the
influence of the Enquiry. Major writers like Johnson, Wordsworth
and Thomas Hardy, painters such as Fuseli and Mortimer, and critics
such as Diderot, Lessing and Kant, as well as many other minor
figures, recognized Burke's new insights, and in varying degrees
assimilated them. The second edition, revised by Burke himself,
provides the copy-text, including changes between the first and
second editions.
In his Enquiry --which has been described as "certainly on of the
most important aesthetic documents that eighteenth -century England
produced" --the young Burke provided a systematic analysis of the
'sublime' and the 'beautiful,' together with a distinctive
terminology which served to express certain facets of the changing
sensibility of his time. The introduction traces the main sources
of Burke's ideas and establishes the nature of his originality. The
largest section of the editor's introduction, however, examines the
influence of the Enquiry. Major writers like Johnson, Wordsworth
and Thomas Hardy, painters such as Fuseli and Mortimer, and critics
such as Diderot, Lessing and Kant, as well as many other minor
figures, recognized Burke's new insights, and in varying degrees
assimilated them. The second edition, revised by Burke himself,
provides the copy-text, including changes between the first and
second editions.
In his last years D. H. Lawrence often wrote for newspapers; he
needed the money, and clearly enjoyed the work. He also wrote
several substantial essays during the same period. This
meticulously-edited collection brings together major essays such as
Pornography and Obscenity and Lawrence's spirited Introduction to
the volume of his Paintings; a group of autobiographical pieces,
two of which are published here for the first time; and the
articles Lawrence wrote at the invitation of newspaper and magazine
editors. There are thirty-nine items in total, thirty-five of them
deriving from original manuscripts; all were written between 1926
and Lawrence's death in March 1930. They are ordered
chronologically according to the date of composition; each is
preceded by an account of the circumstances in which it came to be
published. The volume is introduced by a substantial survey of
Lawrence's career as a writer responding directly to public
interests and concerns.
This first complete reprint of Boswell's book on Corsica since the
eighteenth century is enhanced by comprehensive annotation, textual
apparatus, and a critical introduction. Boswell designed his text
in two parts: first, an Account of Corsica, which gives a
historical, political, socio-economic, and cultural overview of the
Corsican people, and second, the Journal of his tour to see the
Corsican leader Pascal Paoli in 1765. This edition, unlike so many
reprints of just the Journal, allows the reader to appreciate
Boswell's original design.
The young and adventuresome Boswell wanted to write a book that
would swing public opinion, and perhaps the British government, to
support the Corsicans in their struggle for independence. He was
well aware that his English readers had but the haziest ideas about
Corsica gleaned from but snatches of news in the papers. The first
part would therefore provide the context within which to understand
and appreciate his account of his journey to and meeting with
Paoli.
The complete text also illustrates aspects of Boswell that have
received less attention than they might, namely, his sense of
history, his political enthusiasm for national liberty, and his
scholarship. He brings to the book a solid foundation in the
Classics and the law, a facility in French and Italian, and a
sensitivity to writing that, as the notes show, is evident in the
reworking of his manuscript. The editors' introduction and the
extensive annotation point up Boswell the scholar--assiduous,
sedulous to get at the relevant sources, careful to do justice to
those he disagreed with, and open about seeking and acknowledging
advice. The text reveals Boswell as a serious and independent
thinker and a writer committed to Corsica's independence. What he
argued for and presumed was about to be achieved is still a matter
of debate in Corsica and metropolitan France.
Volume V covers the three years from March 1924 to March 1927. It comprises over 890 letters, of which about 350 are previously unpublished, and the others are printed in full for the first time. As in earlier volumes of this model edition of Lawrence's correspondence, texts have been established from the originals and are fully annotated to identify persons and illuminate allusions. Also included are a biographical introduction, two maps of Oaxaca (Mexico), illustrations, chronology and an index. In 1924 Lawrence is in the United States to check on the failing business of his American publisher and to rewrite his Mexican novel The Plumed Serpent. While in Mexico, the author falls dangerously ill and recovers at Kiowa. In the Autumn of 1925, he and Frieda visit family in England and Germany. They finally settle in Italy where, except for his final visit to the Midlands, they will remain.
This final volume of The Letters of D. H. Lawrence has a threefold purpose: to publish 148 letters to or from Lawrence that came to light too late to be entered in their correct chronological positions in earlier volumes; to correct errors in the first seven volumes and offer additional annotation; and--most importantly--to provide a comprehensive critical index to the entire edition. The Cambridge Edition of Lawrence's letters has been described as creating itself "a major new literary work." This volume brings that work to a fitting conclusion.
Vol. 1 contains nearly 600 letters from the period 1901-1913. They cover Lawrence's youth and his career as a teacher in Croydon, his entry into the literary world, the writing of his first three novels (including Sons and Lovers), his early love affairs and his elopement to Italy.
This volume contains Lawrence’s letters written between March 1927 and November 1928: almost 770 letters in just a year and nine months. The letters cover the period of Lawrence’s Etruscan tour in the spring of 1927 as preparation for the writing of Sketches of Etruscan Places; the performance of his play, David, in London in May, and - above all - the writing, typing, private publication, promotion and immediate consequences of Lady Chatterley’s Lover. He makes new acquaintances with writers and publishers in Europe (Max Mohr, Hans Carossa, Harry and Caresse Crosby); renews friendships which will stand him in good stead in times of poor health (the Huxleys, Aldington, the Brewsters); and rediscovers the bonds of family and old Eastwood friends. The volume provides annotation identifying persons and allusions, and includes a biographical introduction, illustrations, a full chronology and index.
This volume of Lawrence's letters covers his life from the enthusiastic reception of Sons and Lovers to the completion of the first complete manuscript of Women in Love. Over 200 of the letters are previously unpublished and others are printed here for the first time in their entirety.
This volume contains almost all of the letters D. H. Lawrence wrote
in the last fifteen months of his life: 763 letters, the majority
previously unpublished. Despite his failing strength, Lawrence was
in constant communication with publishers and agents. He continued
to write frequently to his sisters and friends. There is no new
fiction for Lawrence to discuss, but there are paintings, poems,
the major essays Pornography and Obscenity and A Propos of 'Lady
Chatterley's Lover', articles, and his last work Apocalypse. The
most dramatic episodes of these months were the seizure of the
Pansies manuscript, and the police raid on an exhibition of
Lawrence's paintings and the subsequent trial. The subject of his
illness becomes ominously more prominent, and Lawrence apologises
for letters which lack his customary vitality. The volume includes
an introduction, maps, illustrations, chronology and index; full
notes identify persons and explain Lawrence's allusions.
Volume 1 of the Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke presents
Burke's early literary writings up to 1765, and before he became a
key political figure. It is the first fully annotated and critical
edition, with comprehensive notes and an authoritative
introduction. The writings published here introduce readers to
Burke's early attempts at a public voice. They demonstrate in a
variety of ways how determined he was to become involved in the
social and intellectual life of his times. The one work of Burke's
early life which has long been recognized as having prime critical
significance, the Sublime and the Beautiful, is naturally found
here. In addition the volume includes the first fully edited
version of other works which have been neglected, notably the
Vindication of Natural Society, a substantial satire on current
philosophical and religious thought, the Abridgement of English
History and the Hints for an Essay on the Drama. The volume also
prints reliable texts of his early poems and prose `characters' as
well as the first complete text of The Reformer since it was first
published in 1748. This was a weekly paper devoted principally to
the Dublin cultural scene and was edited by Burke shortly after he
graduated from Trinity College, Dublin.
Lawrence's renowned creativity is conspicuous in his letters. Here
in over 330 of them - many first published in the acclaimed
seven-volume Cambridge Edition - are exemplified the remarkable
variety and inventiveness he could command. He corresponded with
the elite - aristocrats, fellow authors, painters, publishers and
others from the intelligentsia; but not with these only. With equal
concern he wrote to his sisters, a childhood friend suffering from
tuberculosis, a Post Office clerk or an Italian servant-girl.
Lawrence revelled in the act of communication, using a direct,
unvarnished but invariably vivid style appropriate to each
correspondent. His letters are notable for expressive and
imaginative energy, wit and comedy, the tender and the tempestuous,
combined with an extraordinary sensitivity to the natural world as
well as to the human condition - and much besides. Few English
letter-writers offer a comparable range of interest. In his
introductory essay James Boulton provides a rare critical
assessment of Lawrence's epistolary achievement. In addition to the
annotated texts of the letters, also included are a biographical
list of Lawrence's correspondents; brief chronological and
descriptive introductions to each section; and a full general
index.
Vol. 1 contains nearly 600 letters from the period 1901-1913. They cover Lawrence's youth and his career as a teacher in Croydon, his entry into the literary world, the writing of his first three novels (including Sons and Lovers), his early love affairs and his elopement to Italy.
Paradoxically, Daniel Defoe is diminished by his popularity as the
author of a handful of important novels, since the remainder of his
voluminous writings suffer undue neglect. Fully to understand him
he should be taken whole but his authorship of over 500
publications renders this feat well nigh impossible. The purpose of
this selection, then, is to enable the reader to make or renew the
acquaintance of Defoe on some of his favourite topics such as trade
and politics, manners and morality, in poetry as well as prose, and
in works like A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal and
Memoirs of a Cavalier, which are characteristic blends of fact and
fiction. Equipped with the insights possible from this sample, the
reader - it is hoped - will return to the major novels with a
keener appreciation of their distinctive quality and a livelier
sense of their author.
This final volume of The Letters of D. H. Lawrence has a threefold purpose: to publish 148 letters to or from Lawrence that came to light too late to be entered in their correct chronological positions in earlier volumes; to correct errors in the first seven volumes and offer additional annotation; and--most importantly--to provide a comprehensive critical index to the entire edition. The Cambridge Edition of Lawrence's letters has been described as creating itself "a major new literary work." This volume brings that work to a fitting conclusion.
D.H. Lawrence's renowned creativity is conspicuous in his letters. He wrote to aristocrats, fellow authors, painters, publishers, and others from the intelligentsia--but with equal concern to his sisters, a childhood friend suffering from tuberculosis, a post office clerk or an Italian servant-girl. Lawrence reveled in the act of communication, using a direct, unvarnished but invariably vivid style appropriate to each correspondent. In this book, over 330 of Lawrence's letters, carefully chosen from the authoritative seven-volume Cambridge Edition exemplify Lawrence's artistry and humanness. In his introductory essay James T. Boulton provides a rare critical assessment of Lawrence's epistolary achievement. There are annotations to the letters, a biographical list of correspondents, brief chronological and descriptive introductions to each section and a full general index. This selection will appeal to Lawrence aficionados and will make good companion reading to his works.
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