The Grammar of Empire, the Figure of the Nation
Title | The Grammar of Empire, the Figure of the Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Linda Sorensen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing
Title | The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Sorensen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2000-10-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521653275 |
This study, first published in 2000, examines the role of language as an instrument of empire in eighteenth-century British literature.
The English Novel, 1700-1740
Title | The English Novel, 1700-1740 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Letellier |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 654 |
Release | 2003-02-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0313016909 |
The English novel written between 1700 and 1740 remains a comparatively neglected area. In addition to Daniel Defoe, whose Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders are landmarks in the history of English fiction, many other authors were at work. These included such women as Penelope Aubin, Jane Barker, Mary Davys, and Eliza Haywood, who made a considerable contribution to widening the range of emotional responses in fiction. These authors, and many others, continued writing in the genres inherited from the previous century, such as criminal biographies, the Utopian novel, the science fictional voyage, and the epistolary novel. This annotated bibliography includes entries for these works and for critical materials pertinent to them. The volume first seeks to establish the existing studies of the era, along with anthologies. It then provides entries for a wide-ranging selection of works which cover fictional, theoretical, historical, political, and cultural topics, to provide a comprehensive background to the unfolding and understanding of prose fiction in the early 18th century. This is followed by an alphabetical listing of novels, their editions, and any critical material available on each. The next section provides a chronological record of significant and enduring works of fiction composed or translated in this period. The volume concludes with extensive indexes.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Title | Dissertation Abstracts International PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 492 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Dissertations, Academic |
ISBN |
Topographies of Fascism
Title | Topographies of Fascism PDF eBook |
Author | Nil Santiáñez-Tió |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1442645792 |
Topographies of Fascism offers the first comprehensive exploration of how Spanish fascist writing essays, speeches, articles, propaganda materials, poems, novels, and memoirs represented and created space from the early 1920s until the late 1950s. Nil Santiáñez contends that fascism expressed its views on the state, the nation, and the society in spatial terms (for example, the state as a building, the nation as an organic unity, and society as the people's community), just as its adherents celebrated fascism in its architecture, public spectacles, and military rituals. While Topographies of Fascism centres on Spain, a nation that produced a large number of fascist texts focused on space, it also draws on works written by key German, Italian, and French fascist politicians and intellectuals. Ultimately, it provides an innovative model for analyzing the comparable yet often overlooked strategies of symbolic representation and production of space in fascist political and cultural discourse.
Figures of Speech
Title | Figures of Speech PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Cassedy |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2019-01-03 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1609386124 |
Tim Cassedy’s fascinating study examines the role that language played at the turn of the nineteenth century as a marker of one’s identity. During this time of revolution (U.S., French, and Haitian) and globalization, language served as a way to categorize people within a world that appeared more diverse than ever. Linguistic differences, especially among English-speakers, seemed to validate the emerging national, racial, local, and regional identity categories that took shape in this new world order. Focusing on six eccentric characters of the time—from the woman known as “Princess Caraboo” to wordsmith Noah Webster—Cassedy shows how each put language at the center of their identities and lived out the possibilities of their era’s linguistic ideas. The result is a highly entertaining and equally informative look at how perceptions about who spoke what language—and how they spoke it—determined the shape of communities in the British American colonies and beyond. This engagingly written story is sure to appeal to historians of literature, culture, and communication; to linguists and book historians; and to general readers interested in how ideas about English developed in the early United States and throughout the English-speaking world.
Race, nation and empire
Title | Race, nation and empire PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Hall |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2024-06-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1526183862 |
The essays in this collection show how histories written in the past, in different political times, dealt with, considered, or avoided and disavowed Britain’s imperial role and issues of difference. Ranging from enlightenment historians to the present, these essays consider both individual historians, including such key figures as E. A. Freeman, G. M. Trevelyan and Keith Hancock, and also broader themes such as the relationship between liberalism, race and historiography and how we might re-think British history in the light of trans-national, trans-imperial and cross-cultural analysis. ‘Britishness’ and what ‘British’ history is have become major cultural and political issues in our time. But as these essays demonstrate, there is no single national story: race, empire and difference have pulsed through the writing of British history. The contributors include some of the most distinguished historians writing today: C. A. Bayly, Antoinette Burton, Saul Dubow, Geoff Eley, Theodore Koditschek, Marilyn Lake, John M. MacKenzie, Karen O’Brien, Sonya O. Rose, Bill Schwarz, Kathleen Wilson.