The Reformd Coquet Familiar Letters Betwixt A Gentleman And A Lady And The Accomplishd Rake

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.

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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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195169212
Total Pages : 2648 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature written by David Scott Kastan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 2648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reference presents over five hundred full essays on authors and a variety of topics, including censorship, genre, patronage, and dictionaries.

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Total Pages : 46 pages
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Download or read book Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady written by and published by . This book was released on 1720 with total page 46 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 : R. Ballaster
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230298354
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of British Women's Writing, 1690 - 1750 written by R. Ballaster and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume charts the most significant changes for a literary history of women in a period that saw the beginnings of a discourse of 'enlightened feminism'. It reveals that women engaged in forms old and new, seeking to shape and transform the culture of letters rather than simply reflect or respond to the work of their male contemporaries.

Author : Karen Bloom Gevirtz
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874139235
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life After Death written by Karen Bloom Gevirtz and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life After Death shows how representations of the widow in theeighteenth-century novel express attitudes toward emerging capitalismand women's participation in it. Authors responded to the century'sinstability by using widows, who had the right to act economically andself-interestedly, to teach women that virtue meant foregoing theopportunities that the changing economy offered. Novelists thus helpedto create expectations for women that linger today, and established thenovel as a cultural arbiter. The first study of widows in the developingnovel, Life After Death also takes the next step in merging genre, gender, and economic criticism

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438114931
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eighteenth Century English Novel written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early novelists such as Samuel Richardson, Daniel Defoe, and Laurence Sterne helped create the formula for the modern novel.

Author : Paula R. Backscheider
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408422
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel written by Paula R. Backscheider and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Singer Rowe played a pivotal role in the development of the novel during the eighteenth century. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel is the first in-depth study of Rowe’s prose fiction. A four-volume collection of her work was a bestseller for a hundred years after its publication, but today Rowe is a largely unrecognized figure in the history of the novel. Although her poetry was appreciated by poets such as Alexander Pope for its metrical craftsmanship, beauty, and imagery, by the time of her death in 1737 she was better known for her fiction. According to Paula R. Backscheider, Rowe's major focus in her novels was on creating characters who were seeking a harmonious, contented life, often in the face of considerable social pressure. This quest would become the plotline in a large number of works in the second half of the eighteenth century, and it continues to be a major theme today in novels by women. Backscheider relates Rowe’s work to popular fiction written by earlier writers as well as by her contemporaries. Rowe had a lasting influence on major movements, including the politeness (or gentility) movement, the reading revolution, and the Bluestocking society. The author reveals new information about each of these movements, and Elizabeth Singer Rowe emerges as an important innovator. Her influence resulted in new types of novel writing, philosophies, and lifestyles for women. Backscheider looks to archival materials, literary analysis, biographical evidence, and a configuration of cultural and feminist theories to prove her groundbreaking argument.