Anna Letitia Barbauld

New Perspectives
Herausgeber: Mccarthy, William; Murphy, Olivia

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Produktbeschreibung

Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives, the first collection of essays on the work of this major British writer, is the indispensable volume for everyone who wants an introduction to Barbauld and to the most current thinking about her. The book will be essential reading for academic students of English literature, 1740 to 1840, and will also attract non-specialists who care about the history of writing by women.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781611487121
• ISBN-10: 1611487129
• Artikelnr.: 43021112

Autorenporträt

William McCarthy is professor of English emeritus at Iowa State University. Olivia Murphy is lecturer in English at Murdoch University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Gillian Dow and
Felicity James Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Anna Letitia
Barbauld Today William McCarthy 1"Slip-shod Measure" and "Language of
Gods": Barbauld's Stylistic Range Isobel Grundy 2 Barbauld's Poetic Career
in Script and Print Michelle Levy 3 Anna Letitia Barbauld: A Unitarian
Poetics? Isobel Armstrong 4 Materiality, Affect, Event: Barbauld's Poetics
of the Everyday Sonia Hofkosh 5 "The Things Themselves": Sensory Images in
Lessons for Children and Hymns in Prose Joanna Wharton 6 "Hallowed by the
Occasion of the Meeting": Priestley, Meetings, Utility and Address in
Barbauld's Work of the 1790s Stephen Bygrave 7 Lady Defender of the
Revolution: Anna Letitia Barbauld among the British Radicals ... Rachel
Trethewey 8 Stoic Patriotism in Barbauld's Political Poems E. J. Clery
9 From Beauties to Selections: Barbauld's Design for The Spectator Scott
Krawczyk 10 Assuming Authority: Barbauld as Critic Sabine Volk-Birke 11
Anna Letitia Barbauld, Jane Austen's Unseen Interlocutor Jocelyn Harris 12
"No Man Could Owe More": John Ruskin's Debt to Anna Barbauld's Books for
Children Naomi Lightman 13 Riddling Sibyl, Uncanny Cassandra: the Recent
Critical Reception of Anna Letitia Barbauld Olivia Murphy Bibliography
Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld Secondary Works About the Contributors Index