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With an Introduction, explanatory notes, and annotated bibliography
by Nicholas Seager. This collection brings together Jane Austen's
earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left
incomplete at the time of her premature death in 1817. Her
fragmentary juvenilia show Austen developing her own sense of
narrative form whilst parodying popular kinds of fiction of her
day. Lady Susan is a wickedly funny epistolary novel about a
captivating but unscrupulous widow seeking to snare husbands for
her daughter and herself. The Watsons explores themes of family
relationships, the marriage market, and attitudes to rank, which
became the hallmarks of her major novels. In Sanditon, Austen
exercises her acute powers of social observation in the setting of
a newly fashionable seaside resort. These novels are here joined by
shorter fictions that survive in Austen's manuscripts, including
critically acclaimed works like Catharine, Love and Freindship
[sic], and The History of England.
Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, has
shocked and delighted readers worldwide since its publication in
1726. At turns a humorous and harrowing indictment of human
behaviour, it has been endlessly reinterpreted by critics and
adapted across media by other artists. The Cambridge Companion to
Gulliver's Travels comprises 17 original chapters by leading
scholars, written in a theoretically-informed but accessible style.
As well as providing detailed close readings of each part of the
narrative, this Companion relates Gulliver's Travels to the
political, religious, scientific, colonial, and intellectual
debates in which Swift was engaged, and it assesses the form of the
book as a novel, travel book, philosophical treatise, and satire.
Finally, it explores the Travels' rich and varied afterlives: the
controversies it has fuelled, the films and artworks it has
inspired, and the enduring need authors have felt to 'write back'
to Swift's original, disturbing, and challenging story.
The Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by an
unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson, who would later become
the most celebrated British writer of the late 1700s. Richard
Savage (1697-1743) was a poet, playwright, and satirist who claimed
to be the illegitimate son of a late earl and to have been denied
his inheritance and viciously persecuted by his mother. He was
urbane, charming, a brilliant conversationalist, but also
irresponsible and impulsive. His role in a tavern brawl almost led
him to the gallows, though his life was saved by an eleventh-hour
pardon by the King. Over time he attracted many supporters,
practically all of whom he managed to alienate by the time of his
death in a debtors' prison in Bristol. Johnson, who had been
friends with Savage for a little over a year, drew on published
documents and his own memories of Savage to produce one of the
first great English biographies. The edition is supplemented by
other writings by Johnson, a selection of Savage's prose and verse,
contemporary and posthumous responses to Savage and to Johnson's
biography, and selections by Johnson's first two major biographers,
John Hawkins and James Boswell. A discussion of factual errors in
Johnson's account help the reader place the Life and the
supplementary texts in their historical and intellectual contexts.
This comprehensive and authoritative edition of the correspondence
of Daniel Defoe situates each letter in its biographical, literary,
and historical contexts. A unique source for a turbulent period of
British history, Defoe's correspondence spans topics including the
first age of party marked by Tory and Whig rivalry, religious
tensions between the Church and Dissenters, the uncertainty of the
monarchical succession, the birth of Great Britain and its
establishment as a global empire, and the use of the press to mould
public opinion. As well as an introduction discussing Defoe's
epistolary habits and the distinctive features of his letters,
headnotes and annotations explain each document's occasion,
beginning in 1703 with Defoe hunted by the government for sedition,
and ending in 1730 with him again in hiding, fleeing creditors
months before his death. The volume is illustrated with examples of
Defoe's letters, offering a fresh window onto Defoe's manuscript
habits.
Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, has
shocked and delighted readers worldwide since its publication in
1726. At turns a humorous and harrowing indictment of human
behaviour, it has been endlessly reinterpreted by critics and
adapted across media by other artists. The Cambridge Companion to
Gulliver's Travels comprises 17 original chapters by leading
scholars, written in a theoretically-informed but accessible style.
As well as providing detailed close readings of each part of the
narrative, this Companion relates Gulliver's Travels to the
political, religious, scientific, colonial, and intellectual
debates in which Swift was engaged, and it assesses the form of the
book as a novel, travel book, philosophical treatise, and satire.
Finally, it explores the Travels' rich and varied afterlives: the
controversies it has fuelled, the films and artworks it has
inspired, and the enduring need authors have felt to 'write back'
to Swift's original, disturbing, and challenging story.
The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction probes the adaptation
and appropriation of a wide range of canonical and lesser-known
British and Irish novels in the long eighteenth century, from the
period of Daniel Defoe and Eliza Haywood through to that of Jane
Austen and Walter Scott. Major authors, including Jonathan Swift,
Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne, are
discussed alongside writers such as Sarah Fielding and Ann
Radcliffe, whose literary significance is now increasingly being
recognised. By uncovering this neglected aspect of the reception of
eighteenth-century fiction, this collection contributes to
developing our understanding of the form of the early novel, its
place in a broader culture of entertainment then and now, and its
interactions with a host of other genres and media, including
theatre, opera, poetry, print caricatures and film.
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Queen Anne and the Arts (Paperback)
Cedric D. Reverand; Contributions by Barbara Benedict, Kevin L. Cope, Brian Corman, Julia Fawcett, …
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The cultural highlights of the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) have
long been overlooked. However, recent scholarship, including the
present volume, is demonstrating that Anne has been seriously
underestimated, both as a person, and as a monarch, and that there
was much cultural activity of note in what might be called an
interim period, coming after the deaths of Dryden and Purcell but
before the blossoming of Pope and Handel, after the glories of
Baroque architecture but before the triumph of Burlingtonian
neoclassicism. The authors of Queen Anne and the Arts make a case
for Anne's reign as a time of experimentation and considerable
accomplishment in new genres, some of which developed, some of
which faded away. The volume includes essays on the music, drama,
poetry, quasi-operas, political pamphlets, and architecture, as
well as on newer genres, such as coin and medal collecting, hymns,
and poetical miscellanies, all produced during Anne's reign.
The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction probes the adaptation
and appropriation of a wide range of canonical and lesser-known
British and Irish novels in the long eighteenth century, from the
period of Daniel Defoe and Eliza Haywood through to that of Jane
Austen and Walter Scott. Major authors, including Jonathan Swift,
Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne, are
discussed alongside writers such as Sarah Fielding and Ann
Radcliffe, whose literary significance is now increasingly being
recognised. By uncovering this neglected aspect of the reception of
eighteenth-century fiction, this collection contributes to
developing our understanding of the form of the early novel, its
place in a broader culture of entertainment then and now, and its
interactions with a host of other genres and media, including
theatre, opera, poetry, print caricatures and film.
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