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In recent years, feminist scholars, through their insistence on the
key role of gender in critical analysis, have brought about a
profound revitalization of literary and cultural studies. This text
draws together work by leading exponents in the field. The essays
explore the operations of gender in the production of knowledge and
the formation of cultural representations in a wide variety of
contexts, from German romantic poetry to the literature of AIDS,
from Victorian ethnography to tabloid constructions of race. All of
the essays engage in problems of representation, intervening in
current debates in critical theory.
Reading Literary Animals explores the status and representation of
animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Essays by leading scholars in the field examine various figurative,
agential, imaginative, ethical, and affective aspects of literary
encounters with animality, showing how practices of close reading
provoke new ways of thinking about animals and the texts in which
they appear. Through investigations of works by Shakespeare, Aphra
Behn, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Ted
Hughes, among many others, Reading Literary Animals demonstrates
the value of distinctively literary animal studies.
What did British people in the late eighteenth century think and
feel about their relationship to nonhuman animals? This book shows
how an appreciation of human-animal similarity and a literature of
compassion for animals developed in the same years during which
radical thinkers were first basing political demands on the concept
of natural and universal human rights. Some people began to
conceptualise animal rights as an extension of the rights of man
and woman. But because oppressed people had to insist on their own
separation from animals in order to claim the right to a full share
in human privileges, the relationship between human and animal
rights was fraught and complex. This book examines that
relationship in chapters covering the abolition movement, early
feminism, and the political reform movement. Donkeys, pigs, apes
and many other literary animals became central metaphors within
political discourse, fought over in the struggle for rights and
freedoms; while at the same time more and more writers became
interested in exploring the experiences of animals themselves. We
learn how children's writers pioneered narrative techniques for
representing animal subjectivity, and how the anti-cruelty campaign
of the early 1800s drew on the legacy of 1790s radicalism.
Coleridge, Wordsworth, Clare, Southey, Blake, Wollstonecraft,
Equiano, Dorothy Kilner, Thomas Spence, Mary Hays, Ignatius Sancho,
Anna Letitia Barbauld, John Oswald, John Lawrence, and Thomas
Erskine are just a few of the writers considered. Along with other
canonical and non-canonical writers of many disciplines, they
placed nonhuman animals at the heart of British literature in the
age of the French Revolution.
Reading Literary Animals explores the status and representation of
animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Essays by leading scholars in the field examine various figurative,
agential, imaginative, ethical, and affective aspects of literary
encounters with animality, showing how practices of close reading
provoke new ways of thinking about animals and the texts in which
they appear. Through investigations of works by Shakespeare, Aphra
Behn, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Ted
Hughes, among many others, Reading Literary Animals demonstrates
the value of distinctively literary animal studies.
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A Simple Story (Paperback)
Elizabeth Inchbald; Edited by J.M.S. Tompkins; Introduction by Jane Spencer
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R315
R257
Discovery Miles 2 570
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When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic
priest, she breaks through the double barrier of religious vocation
and society's standards of `proper' womanly behaviour. Her love is
legitimized when Dorriforth is released from his vows, but she
finds her own unorthodox nature cannot conform to a marriage where
her husband continues to be a stern moral guide. With a surenees of
touch that prefigures Jane Austen, Elizabeth Inchbald shows that
there is no simple answer to their predicament, and that their
conflict can only be resolved in the next generation. ABOUT THE
SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
Literary Relations argues that kinship relations between writers,
both literal and figurative, played a central part in the creation
of a national tradition of English literature. Through studies of
writing relationships, including those between William and Dorothy
Wordsworth, Henry and Sarah Fielding, Frances and Richard Brinsley
Sheridan, and Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, it shows that
kinship between writers played a significant role not just in
individual lives but in the formation of generic traditions. As
writers looked back to founding fathers, and hoped to have writing
sons, the literary tradition was modelled on the patriarchal
family, imagined in tropes of genealogy and inheritance. This
marginalized but did not exclude women, and the study ranges from
the work of Dryden, with its emphasis on literature as patrilineal
inheritance, to the reception of Austen, which shows uneven but
significant progress towards understanding the woman writer as an
inheriting daughter and generative mother.
Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her
own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally
and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and
remarkable range. This edition brings together her most important
comedies in a single volume: The Rover, her best-known play; The
Feigned Courtesans, a lively comedy of intrigue; The Lucky Chance,
a comedy with a bitter edge, which takes a satirical look at
marriage customs; and the dazzling and popular farce, The Emperor
of the Moon. Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner of the
University of York, the plays have been newly edited and are
presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. Detailed
annotation helps the reader to visualize the plays in performance
and the Introduction argues for the importance of Behn's skilful
stagecraft and her great success as an entertainer. ABOUT THE
SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
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