Familiar Letters Betwixt A Gentleman And A Lady

Author : Mary Davys
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813188342
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reform'd Coquet, Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady, and The Accomplish'd Rake written by Mary Davys and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reform'd Coquette (1724) tells the story of Amoranda, a good but flighty young woman whose tendency toward careless behavior is finally tamed. Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady (1725), a satire of both political debate and women's place in society, portrays a Tory man and a Whig woman who find themselves discussing love, even though they have pledged to remain platonic friends. The Accomplish'd Rake (1727) follows the exploits of Sir John Galliard from youth to manhood, when he is forced to accept responsibility for his actions. Mary Davys (1674?-1732) was one of the earliest female novelists in Britain, and after the death of her husband she supported herself by writing and running a coffeehouse. Her writing sparkles, especially in its witty dialogue. Although these three short epistolary novels are framed in a clear moral universe in which virtue is rewarded and transgressions is punished, her works are not overtly religious and punishment is as likely to come from society as from providence.

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Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Author : Mary Davys
Publisher : Dissertations-G
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reform'd Coquet and Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady written by Mary Davys and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1973 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Davys
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS.
Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781379984344
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady written by MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS. and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T117086 Title from half-title. First leaf signed S4. Vol.2, pp.265-308 of an unknown work. Contains letters between Berina and Artander. [London?, 1720?]. Pp.[2],265-308; 8°

Author : Susan Glover
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838756041
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engendering Legitimacy written by Susan Glover and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engendering Legitimacy: Law, Property, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction is a study of the intersecting of law, land, property, and gender in the prose fiction of Mary Davys, Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, and Jonathan Swift. The law of property in early modern England established relations for men and women that artificially constructed, altered, and ended their connections with the material world, and the land they lived upon. The cultural role of land and law in a changing economy embracing new forms of property became a founding preoccupation around which grew the imaginative prose fiction that would develop into the English novel. Glover contends that questions of political and legal legitimacy raised by England's Revolution of 1688-89 were transposed to the domestic and literary spheres of the early 1700s.

Author : David Womersley
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874138962
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Cultures of Whiggism" written by David Womersley and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the preface to his edition of Shakespeare, Alexander Pope noted that his age was one of Parties, both in Wit and State. Much scholarship has been devoted to the complexities of the political parties of the eighteenth century, but there has been a surprising reluctance to explore what Pope implied were the corollaries of those parties, namely, parties in literature. The essays collected here explore the literary culture that arose from and supported what Pitt the Elder referred to as the great spirit of Whiggism that animated English politics during the eighteenth century. From the prehistory of Whiggism in the court of Charles II to the fractures opened up within it by the French Revolution in the 1790s, the interactions between Whiggish politics and literature are sampled and described in groundbreaking essays that range widely across the fields of eighteenth-century political prose, poetry, and the novel.

Author : Mary Davys
Publisher : Dissertations-G
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reform'd Coquet and Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady written by Mary Davys and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1973 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bridget G. MacCarthy
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814755194
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Female Pen written by Bridget G. MacCarthy and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Had B.G. MacCarthy's criticism been available, Showalter's A Literature of Their Own would have been a very different kind of book...In some ways, contemporary could be ten years ahead if we had started the climb from MacCarthy's groundwork." —Maggie Humm, University of East London Back in print for the first time since the 1940's, this classic work of pre-feminist literary criticism is a challenging and authoritative assessment of women's contributions to English literature. B. G. MacCarthy, widely praised for the originality of her scholarship, challenges the dominant picture of mascaline literary history created by T. S. Eliot and F. R. Leavis. Written with crisp humor and irony, her exploration of women's writing. Focusing on a wide range of authors including Lady Mary Wroath, Eliza Hayward, Aphra Behn, Maria Edgeworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Inchbald, Margaret Cavendish and Jane Austen- illustrates that these women attempted almost every genre of fiction, enriched many, and initiated some of the most important. Often savagely witty, The Female Pen discusses a vast array of fictional forms, including picturesque, moralistic, oriental, domestic, and gothic novels.

Author : Alison Adburgham
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571295258
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Print written by Alison Adburgham and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book should be regarded as rescue work. It salvages from pre-Victorian periodicals from the limbo of forgotten publications, and exhumes from long undisturbed sources a curious collection of women who, at a time when it was considered humiliating for a gentlewoman to earn money, contrived to support themselves by writing, editing, or publishing... sometimes even supporting husbands and children as well... The women who emerge make a motley gallery; but over the years that I have been getting to know them, they have won my respectful affection. More, indeed. To me they are all heroines...' Alison Adburgham, from her Foreword Magazines addressed to women have a long history in English, and have been subject to condescension for just as long. Alison Adburgham's groundbreaking volume, first published in 1972, rescues the so-called 'scribbling female' from such scorn, not least by documenting just how hard was the struggle for women writers to live by the pen.