Writings on Authorship by American Women of the Nineteenth Century
Wielding the Pen presents a wide spectrum of nineteenth century American women's writings on the themes of authorship and creativity. These works reflect the fears, desires, and motivations of female authors, as well as the opportunities and obstacles they encountered as professional writers.Anne E. Boyd includes representative samples from a ......
If readers of the twentieth century feel overwhelmed by the proliferation of writing and information, they can find in Samuel Johnson a sympathetic companion. Johnson's career coincided with the rapid expansion of publishing in Englandnot only in English, but in Latin and Greek; not only in books, but in reviews, journals, broadsides, pamphlets, ......
Theodore Dreiser led a long and controversial life, almost always pursuing some serious question, and not rarely pursuing women. This collection, the second volume of Dreiser correspondence to be published by the University of Illinois Press, gathers previously unpublished letters Dreiser wrote to women between 1893 and 1945, many of them showing ......
The interdisciplinary essays in this volume represent innovative scholarship on the Enlightenment in Britain, Europe, and North America. Contributors and contents: Dennis Moore, Colloquy with the Author: Vincent Carretta and Equiano, the African Toni Bowers, Behn's Monmouth: Sedition, Seduction, and Tory Ideology in the 1680s Tita Chico, Details ......
The Making of the Modern Gentleman in the Eighteenth Century
Erin Mackie explores the shared histories of the modern polite English gentleman and other less respectable but no less celebrated eighteenth-century masculine types: the rake, the highwayman, and the pirate.Mackie traces the emergence of these character types to the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when traditional aristocratic ......
Myths of Origins in the History of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Conflict
The Eve of Spain demonstrates how the telling and retelling of Spain's founding myth played a central role in the formation of that country's national identity. King Roderick, the last Visigoth king of Spain, rapes (or seduces) La Cava, the daughter of his friend and counselor, Count Julian. The count returns to Africa, gathers an army of Moors, ......
This fascinating compendium explains the most unusual, obscure, and curious words and expressions from vintage blues music. Utilizing both documentary evidence and invaluable interviews with a number of now-deceased musicians from the 1920s and '30s, blues scholar Stephen Calt unravels the nuances of more than twelve hundred idioms and proper or ......
Richard C. Sha's revealing study considers how science shaped notions of sexuality, reproduction, and gender in the Romantic period. Through careful and imaginative readings of various scientific texts, the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Longinus, and the works of such writers as William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Lord ......
In Romantic Complexity, Jack Stillinger examines three of the most admired poets of English Romanticism--Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth--with a focus on the complexity that results from the multiple authorship, the multiple textual representation, and the multiple reading and interpretation of their best works. Specific topics include the joint ......
