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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was one of the most influential and
controversial women of her age. No writer, except perhaps her
political foe, Edmund Burke, and her fellow reformer, Thomas Paine,
inspired more intense reactions. In her brief literary career
before her untimely death in 1797, Wollstonecraft achieved
remarkable success in an unusually wide range of genres: from
education tracts and political polemics, to novels and travel
writing. Just as impressive as her expansive range was the profound
evolution of her thinking in the decade when she flourished as an
author. In this collection of essays, leading international
scholars reveal the intricate biographical, critical, cultural, and
historical context crucial for understanding Mary Wollstonecraft's
oeuvre. Chapters on British radicalism and conservatism, French
philosophes and English Dissenters, constitutional law and domestic
law, sentimental literature, eighteenth-century periodicals and
more elucidate Wollstonecraft's social and political thought,
historical writings, moral tales for children, and novels.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was one of the most influential and
controversial women of her age. No writer, except perhaps her
political foe, Edmund Burke, and her fellow reformer, Thomas Paine,
inspired more intense reactions. In her brief literary career
before her untimely death in 1797, Wollstonecraft achieved
remarkable success in an unusually wide range of genres: from
education tracts and political polemics, to novels and travel
writing. Just as impressive as her expansive range was the profound
evolution of her thinking in the decade when she flourished as an
author. In this collection of essays, leading international
scholars reveal the intricate biographical, critical, cultural, and
historical context crucial for understanding Mary Wollstonecraft's
oeuvre. Chapters on British radicalism and conservatism, French
philosophes and English Dissenters, constitutional law and domestic
law, sentimental literature, eighteenth-century periodicals and
more elucidate Wollstonecraft's social and political thought,
historical writings, moral tales for children, and novels.
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Art and Artifact in Austen (Hardcover)
Anna Battigelli; Contributions by Peter Sabor, Elaine Bander, Nancy E. Johnson, Deborah C. Payne, …
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Jane Austen distinguished herself with genius in literature, but
she was immersed in all of the arts. Austen loved dancing, played
the piano proficiently, meticulously transcribed piano scores,
attended concerts and art exhibits, read broadly, wrote poems, sat
for portraits by her sister Cassandra, and performed in
theatricals. For her, art functioned as a social bond, solidifying
her engagement with community and offering order. And yet
Austen’s hold on readers’ imaginations owes a debt to the
omnipresent threat of disorder that often stems—ironically—from
her characters’ socially disruptive artistic sensibilities and
skill. Drawing from a wealth of recent historicist and materialist
Austen scholarship, this timely work explores Austen’s ironic use
of art and artifact to probe selfhood, alienation, isolation, and
community in ways that defy simple labels and acknowledge the
complexity of Austen’s thought. Published by University of
Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University
Press. Â
In this volume of essays, scholars of the interdisciplinary field
of law and literature write about the role of emotion in English
law and legal theory in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries. The law's claims to reason provided a growing citizenry
that was beginning to establish its rights with an assurance of
fairness and equity. Yet, an investigation of the rational
discourse of the law reveals at its core the processes of emotion,
and a study of literature that engages with the law exposes the
potency of emotion in the practice and understanding of the law.
Examining both legal and literary texts, the authors in this
collection consider the emotion that infuses the law and find that
feeling, sentiment and passion are integral to juridical thought as
well as to specific legislation.
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