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Journal articles on the topic "Women authors, English – 18th century"
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Fordoński, Krzysztof. "English 18th-Century Women Poets and Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski: Adaptation, Paraphrase, Translation." Terminus 22, no. 4 (57) (2020): 315–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843844te.20.017.12537.
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The paper deals with six poems of three 18th-century English women poets—Lady Mary Chudleigh, Mary Masters, and Anne Steele “Theodosia”—inspired by the works of the greatest Polish Neo-Latin poet Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski. The aim of the study is to present the three authors, their biographies and literary oeuvres, and to attempt an analysis of the poems in question within this context. The biographies, social position—Chudleigh was the wife a baronet, the two others belonged to the middle class—and education of the three authoresses differ and yet they all shared the limitations resulting from the fact that they were women in 18th-century England, and were therefore denied access to academic education. The analysis of the texts and biographies has proven that it is highly improbable that either of the three women poets could translate the poems from Latin originals. All of their translations are based on earlier renditions; in the case of Chudleigh it is possible to identify the source text, that is the translation by John Norris. Inasmuch as it can be ascertained from the available biographical and critical sources and the results, the attitudes of the three poetesses towards their work varied. Only Masters acknowledged the source material in her publications. Although the current concepts of translation are different, her two poems: On a Fountain. Casimir, Lib. Epod. Ode 2 and Casimir, Lib. I. Ode 2—qualify as translations by the standards of her times. They are analysed here in detail. Neither Chudleigh nor Steele mentioned Sarbiewski in their publications. Their decision can be justified by the fact that their poems, even if clearly (though most likely indirectly) inspired by his lyrics, must be classified as free adaptations or even original poetry influenced by Sarbiewski or earlier translations and adaptations of his works.
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Fordoński, Krzysztof. "English 18th-Century Women Poets and Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski: Adaptation, Paraphrase, Translation." Terminus 22, no. 4 (57) (2020): 315–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843844te.20.017.12537.
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The paper deals with six poems of three 18th-century English women poets—Lady Mary Chudleigh, Mary Masters, and Anne Steele “Theodosia”—inspired by the works of the greatest Polish Neo-Latin poet Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski. The aim of the study is to present the three authors, their biographies and literary oeuvres, and to attempt an analysis of the poems in question within this context. The biographies, social position—Chudleigh was the wife a baronet, the two others belonged to the middle class—and education of the three authoresses differ and yet they all shared the limitations resulting from the fact that they were women in 18th-century England, and were therefore denied access to academic education. The analysis of the texts and biographies has proven that it is highly improbable that either of the three women poets could translate the poems from Latin originals. All of their translations are based on earlier renditions; in the case of Chudleigh it is possible to identify the source text, that is the translation by John Norris. Inasmuch as it can be ascertained from the available biographical and critical sources and the results, the attitudes of the three poetesses towards their work varied. Only Masters acknowledged the source material in her publications. Although the current concepts of translation are different, her two poems: On a Fountain. Casimir, Lib. Epod. Ode 2 and Casimir, Lib. I. Ode 2—qualify as translations by the standards of her times. They are analysed here in detail. Neither Chudleigh nor Steele mentioned Sarbiewski in their publications. Their decision can be justified by the fact that their poems, even if clearly (though most likely indirectly) inspired by his lyrics, must be classified as free adaptations or even original poetry influenced by Sarbiewski or earlier translations and adaptations of his works.
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Krelenko, Natalia S. "English enlighteners about the problems of the growth of crime during the period of commercialization of society." Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: History. International Relations 21, no. 2 (June 23, 2021): 277–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1819-4907-2021-21-2-277-279.
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The review is devoted to the analysis of the monograph, which examines the responses of English philosophers, writers, lawyers, and public figures to the spread of crime in the English society of the 18th century. The reviewer’s attention is focused on how the authors of the monograph characterized the change in the approaches of their contemporaries to solving this social problem for a century.
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Apryshchenko, Victor Yu, and Maksim A. Mukhin. "Features of the Scottish Governance System in the Second Half of the 18th Century." IZVESTIYA VUZOV SEVERO-KAVKAZSKII REGION SOCIAL SCIENCE, no. 1 (209) (March 30, 2021): 35–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.18522/2687-0770-2021-1-35-41.
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The article analyses the contents and the significance of the Scottish governance system in the second half of the 18th century. The authors point out that English political elite had little interest in governing Scotland and draw attention to the role of the Scottish lobby in the Scottish governance as a tool of interaction between the centre and the periphery. The text reveals how the Scottish lobby distributed various amenities via the patronage in order to achieve political stability, as shown with the elections to the House of Commons. The article also demonstrates the role of Scottish managers as the representatives of Scottish interests in London. The authors conclude that the Scottish political system was different from the English one and note that there were no acute political crises in the second half of the 18th century, which indicates that in the midst of a rapid modernisation the Scottish governance system proved to be successful.
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Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. "The ‘Glaring’ Place of Prepositions." Historiographia Linguistica 38, no. 3 (October 21, 2011): 255–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.38.3.01yan.
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Summary This paper offers new insights into the 18th-century normative tradition, with special reference to the stigmatisation of preposition stranding. It brings to light the role of Scottish codifiers in contrast to English codifiers: works written by Scots contain more critical comments on the use of end-placed prepositions both quantitatively (in terms of frequency) and qualitatively (more semantic nuances and more condemnatory epithets). The semantic analysis of the data rules out the hypothesis that Scottish authors might have been particularly sensible towards this construction because of its nature as ‘provincial English’ or as a ‘Scotticism’. Rather, the author suggests that it was the ‘New Rhetoric’ movement (1748–1793) in the context of the Scottish Enlightenment that played a vital role in its stigmatisation. The importance of rhetoric as a facet of 18th-century prescriptivism, complementary to grammar, is thus put under the spotlight.
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Tretyakova, Maria. "The phenomenon of “female erudition” in the works by German-language authors in the second half of the 18th century." Adam & Eve. Gender History Review, no. 29 (2021): 243–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.32608/2307-8383-2021-29-243-264.
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The article focuses on analysis of some German philosophers and publicists’ views on the phenomenon of female erudition in the second half of the 18th century. In the present article, genetic closeness of the mentioned authors’ ideas to educational program by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is stressed. The author makes attempts to put the phenomenon of female erudition in the wide context that included such issues as functioning of equal cross-gender communication in the frameworks of «mixed societies», crucial tends of female education development, key features of reading culture in the German-speaking space in the period under review, as well as enlightened discourse on the rights and duties of women in the second half of the 18th century.
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Пономарева, В. В., and В. В. Чугаев. "THEOLOGICAL THEORY IN ENGLISH POLITICAL AND LEGAL THOUGHT OF THE XVIII CENTURY." VESTNIK OF THE EAST SIBERIAN INSTITUTE OF THE MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, no. 1(100) (March 31, 2022): 47–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.55001/2312-3184.2022.52.32.004.
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Введение: статья посвящена исследованию содержания и места теологической теории в английской политико-правовой мысли XVIII века. Эволюция теологических воззрений на природу королевской власти в XVIII веке исследуется поэтапно в неразрывной взаимосвязи с закономерными изменениями в идеологическом климате английского общества.Материалы и методы: основу исследования составляют теоретические разработки английских авторов на природу королевской власти, а также художественно-поэтические произведения, изданные в рамках исследуемого периода. Методологической основой исследования послужил комплекс общенаучных (анализ, синтез, дедукция, индукция, системный, функциональный и др.) и частнонаучных (сравнительно-правовой, формально-юридический, аксиологический и др.) методов познания.Результаты исследования позволили сместить ракурс исследования политико-правовых учений XVIII века, являющихся своеобразной лакмусовой бумажкой изменений, происходящих в английском обществе в исследуемый период.Выводы и заключения: исследованные идеологические характеристики английского общества позволили по-новому представить содержание теологической теории, проявившей себя в обществе, эволюционно шагнувшем за пределы религиозного восприятия мира. Introduction: article is devoted to the study of the content and place of theological theory in the English political and legal thought of the 18th century. The evolution of theological views on the nature of royal power in the 18th century is studied in stages in an inextricable relationship with natural changes in the ideological climate of English society.Materials and methods: the study is based on theoretical developments by English authors on the nature of royalty, as well as works of art and poetry published during the period under study. The methodological basis of the study was a complex of general scientific (analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction, systemic, functional, etc.) and specific scientific (comparative legal, formal legal, axiological, etc.) methods of cognition.The result of the study allowed to shift the perspective of the study of political and legal doctrines of the 18th century, which are a kind of litmus test of the changes taking place in English society during the period under study.Findings and conclusions: the studied ideological characteristics of English society made it possible to present the content of the theological theory in a new way, which manifested itself in a society that has evolved beyond the limits of the religious perception of the world.
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Mitsyuk, Natalia A., and Anna V. Belova. "Midwifery as the first official profession of women in Russia, 18th to early 20th centuries." RUDN Journal of Russian History 20, no. 2 (December 15, 2021): 270–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2312-8674-2021-20-2-270-285.
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The authors study the institutionalization of midwife specialization among women in Russia in the period from the 18th through the early 20th centuries. The main sources are legislative acts, clerical documents, as well as reports on the activities of medical institutions and maternity departments. The authors use the approaches of gender history, and the concept of professionalization as developed by E. Freidson. Midwifery was the first area of womens work that was officially recognized by the state. There were three main stages on the way to professionalizing the midwifery profession among women. The first stage (covering the 18th century) is associated with attempts to study and systematize the activities of midwives. The practical experience of midwifes was actively sought by doctors whose theoretical knowledge was limited. The second stage of professionalization (corresponding to the first half of the 19th century) was associated with the normative regulation of midwife work and the formation of a professional hierarchy in midwifery. The third stage (comprising the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century) saw a restriction of the midwives spheres of activity, as well as the active inclusion of male doctors in practical obstetrics and their rise to a dominant position. With the development of obstetric specialization, operative obstetrics, and the opening of maternity wards, midwives were relegated to a subordinate position in relation to doctors. In contrast to the United States and Western European countries, Russia did not have professional associations of midwives. Intra-professional communication was weak, and there was no corporate solidarity. In Soviet medicine, finally, the midwives subordinate place in relation to doctors was only cemented.
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Tintemann, Ute. "The Traditions of Grammar Writing in Karl Philipp Moritz’s (1756–1793) Grammars of English (1784) and Italian (1791)." Historiographia Linguistica 42, no. 1 (May 26, 2015): 39–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.42.1.03tin.
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Summary Until the late 18th century, authors of vernacular grammars often adopted the categories of Latin grammar to describe these languages. However, by adapting the Latin system to English, German or Italian, grammarians could succeed only in part, because these languages work in different ways. In the present paper, the author discusses the solutions that Karl Philipp Moritz (1756–1793) proposes in his Englische and Italiänische Sprachlehre für die Deutschen, textbooks for German learners. The author analyses to what extent Moritz’s grammar descriptions were influenced by the Latin model as well as by the traditions of English and Italian grammar writing that he encountered in his sources. It will be demonstrated that he translated extensively from the works of other authors: For his English textbook (Moritz 1784), he mainly used James Greenwood’s (1683?–1737) The Royal English Grammar (1737), and for Italian (Moritz 1791), he profited especially from Benedetto Rogacci’s (1646–1719) Pratica, e compendiosa istruzione circa l’uso emendato, ed elegante della Lingua Italiana (1711).
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Dolgorukova, Natalia M., Kseniia V. Babenko, and Anna P. Gaydenko. "“A Strange Romance,” or Abelard and Héloïse in Russia of the 18th Century." Studia Litterarum 6, no. 2 (2021): 114–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/10.22455/2500-4247-2021-6-2-114-127.
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The article gives an analysis of the first Russian translation of Abelard and Héloïse’s letters (The Collection of Abelard and Héloïse’s Letters with the Life Description of These Miserable Lovers) made by A.I. Dmitriev in 1783 from Count Bussy-Raboutin’s French retelling. A comparative analysis of Dmitriev’s translation with the original text shows the conventional character of their connection. Following Bussy, Dmitriev not always sticks to the Latin original even in the main storylines. Even if he retains the canvas of the original medieval text, he supplements it with countless details: a portrait of a lover, a tear-drenched letter, mad passion. A similar transformation takes place with the Historia Calamitatum in the retelling made by Augustus von Kotzebue. In prefaces both authors designate their works as “female” reading. The interest in the story of two lovers is probably caused by the recent release of J.-J. Rousseau’s Julie, or the New Heloise. The choice of material, the nature of its adaptation, the appeal to women and the circumstances of the publication of Dmitriev’s translation and Kotzebue’s retelling demonstrate the commitment of these authors to sentimentalism, which explains their desire to cause tears in the eyes of their readers.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Women authors, English – 18th century"
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Garner-Mack, Naomi Jayne. "Eighteenth-century women writers and the tradition of epistolary complaint." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a4b7a20d-b36f-4657-929b-e5f375a49cd7.
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This thesis considers the presence of the epistolary tradition of female complaint in the writings of five late eighteenth-century women writers: Hester Thrale Piozzi, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Turner Smith, Mary Robinson, and Frances Burney D’Arblay. The epistolary female complaint tradition is premised on the suggestion that readers are permitted, through the literary endeavours of male authors/transcribers, a glimpse into the authentically felt woes of women; the writers in this study both question and exploit this expectation. Often viewed by critics like John Kerrigan as a tradition that stifled female creativity, epistolary female complaint proves, this thesis argues, a lively and enlivening tradition for women writers; it provided opportunities for literary experimentation and enabled them to turn their experiences into artistic form. Five themes central to the epistolary female complaint tradition are considered: betrayal, absence, suicide, falls, and authorship. Each chapter looks at one theme and one author specifically. Chapter 1 examines the narrative of betrayal Hester Thrale Piozzi established in her journals from 1764 to 1784. Chapter 2 turns to Mary Wollstonecraft and her accounts of absence in her private letters to Gilbert Imlay, and her epistolary travel account, A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796). Chapter 3 discusses Charlotte Turner Smith’s engagement with the theme of suicide in her Elegiac Sonnets (1784) and her epistolary novel, Desmond(1792). Chapter 4 considers the strategies employed in Mary Robinson’s autobiographical, poetic, and fictional writings, which work to move beyond the moral fall the tradition implied. Chapter 5 focuses on the recurrent theme of authorial debt in Frances Burney D’Arblay’s journals, plays, and fiction. I conclude by considering Jane Austen’s appropriation of the tradition in her final novel, Persuasion (1818), and her transformation of the tradition by providing a resolution to the cause of complaint.
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Collins, Margo. "Wayward Women, Virtuous Violence: Feminine Violence in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature by Women." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2474/.
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This dissertation examines the role of "acceptable" feminine violence in Restoration and eighteenth-century drama and fiction. Scenes such as Lady Davers's physical assault on Pamela in Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) have understandably troubled recent scholars of gender and literature. But critics, for the most part, have been more inclined to discuss women as victims of violence than as agents of violence. I argue that women in the Restoration and eighteenth century often used violence in order to maintain social boundaries, particularly sexual and economic ones, and that writers of the period drew upon this tradition of acceptable feminine violence in order to create the figure of the violent woman as a necessary agent of social control. One such figure is Violenta, the heroine of Delarivier Manley's novella The Wife's Resentment (1720), who murders and dismembers her bigamous husband. At her trial, Violenta is condemned to death "notwithstanding the Pity of the People" and "the Intercession of the Ladies," who believe that although the "unexampled Cruelty [Violenta] committed afterwards on the dead Body" was excessive, the murder itself is not inexcusable given her husband's bigamy. My research draws upon diverse archival materials, such as conduct manuals, criminal biographies, and legal records, in order to provide a contextual grounding for the interpretation of literary works by women. Moving between contemporary accounts of feminine violence and discussions of pertinent literary works by Eliza Haywood, Susanna Centlivre, Delarivier Manley, Aphra Behn, Mary Pix, and Jane Wiseman, the dissertation examines issues of interpersonal violence and communal violence committed by women.
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Herman, Ruth Annette. "The business of a woman : the political writings of Delarivier Manley (1667?-1724)." Thesis, [n.p.], 2000. http://library7.open.ac.uk/abstracts/page.php?thesisid=18.
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Volz, Jessica A. "Vision, fiction and depiction : the forms and functions of visuality in the novels of Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth and Fanny Burney." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4438.
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There are many factors that contributed to the proliferation of visual codes, metaphors and references to the gendered gaze in women's fiction of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. This thesis argues that the visual details in women's novels published between 1778 and 1815 are more significant than scholars have previously acknowledged. My analysis of the oeuvres of Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth and Fanny Burney shows that visuality — the nexus between the verbal and visual communication — provided them with a language within language capable of circumventing the cultural strictures on female expression in a way that allowed for concealed resistance. It conveyed the actual ways in which women ‘should' see and appear in a society in which the reputation was image-based. My analysis journeys through physiognomic, psychological, theatrical and codified forms of visuality to highlight the multiplicity of its functions. I engage with scholarly critiques drawn from literature, art, optics, psychology, philosophy and anthropology to assert visuality's multidisciplinary influences and diplomatic potential. I show that in fiction and in actuality, women had to negotiate four scopic forces that determined their ‘looks' and manners of looking: the impartial spectator, the male gaze, the public eye and the disenfranchised female gaze. In a society dominated by ‘frustrated utterance,' penetrating gazes and the perpetual threat of misinterpretation, women novelists used references to the visible and the invisible to comment on emotions, socio-economic conditions and patriarchal abuses. This thesis thus offers new insights into verbal economy by reassessing expression and perception from an unconventional point-of-view.
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Egan, Grace. "Corresponding forms : aspects of the eighteenth-century letter." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1b22283d-1b7b-46bc-8bbe-fdda16b20323.
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My thesis investigates the dialogic aspects and literary qualities ascribed to letters during the long eighteenth century. In part this involves documenting the correspondence between letters and other genres, such as the novel. Being in correspondence encouraged writers such as Burney and Johnson to express the relationship between sender and recipient in interesting ways. I posit that the letter offered a sophisticated means for writers, including those in Richardson's circle, to represent speech and thought, and mimic (with varying degrees of indirection), that of others. I consider the editorial habits and typographical conventions that governed letter-writing during the period, honing in on Richardson's contributions. I link his claim that letters were written 'to the Moment' with broader tropes of 'occasional' style, and show how this manifests in letters' intricate modulations of tense and person. Chapter 1 details the conventions that prevailed in letters of the period, and their interactions with irony and innovation. I compare convention in the epistolary novels of Smollett and Richardson, and look at closure in the Johnson-Thrale correspondence. Chapter 2 demonstrates that various methods of combining one's voice with others were utilized in letters (such as those of the Burney family), including some that took advantage of the epistolary form and its reputation as 'talking on paper'. Chapter 3 shows the role of mimesis in maintaining the dialogic structure of letters, and links it to contemporary theories of sympathy and sentiment. Chapters 4 and 5 apply the findings about epistolary tradition, polyphony and sentimentalism to the letters of Sterne and Burns. In them, there is a mixture of sentiment and irony, and of individual and 'correspondent' styles. The conclusion discusses the editing of letters, both in situ and in preparation for publication. The twin ideals of spontaneity and sincerity, I conclude, have influenced the way we choose to edit letters in scholarly publications.
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Swank, Andrea H. "Virtually corporal : the polite articulation of the female body in the 18th century novel /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9841339.
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Fronius, Helen. "The diligent dilettante : women writers in Germany, 1770-1820." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d95009fe-e8ea-4bcf-b520-29f2e9e849b5.
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The thesis sets out to explain the presence of women writers in the book market of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In order to do so, it examines the position of women writers in Germany - in the context both of their discursive and of their social reality. The thesis investigates the ideological and material background for women's writing, by exploring the areas of gender ideology, contemporary concepts of authorship, women's reading, and the literary market. The final chapter examines women's freedom of expression in different public circumstances. The thesis argues that women's position in the business of culture in general and literature in particular is not as unpromising as has often been claimed. By investigating less well-known texts on gender roles, such as eighteenth-century journal articles, it is possible to show that the rhetoric of prohibitions, for example regarding women's reading and writing, was by no means uniform, but fragmentary and frequently contradictory. Women's own responses to the conditions under which they were working are highlighted throughout the thesis, and examined on the basis of a range of texts, including unpublished correspondence. The examination of non-literary factors, such as the expansion of the literary market and the emergence of a newly diverse reading public, enables the identification of causes other than gender as determining women's position as writers during this period. In the course of this study, numerous neglected texts are considered, which broaden our understanding of this period of literature. The creative and successful use which women writers made of the opportunities they were afforded is emphasised throughout, thereby making an important contribution to the study of women writers.
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Joncus, Berta. "A star is born : Kitty Clive and female representation in eighteenth-century English musical theatre." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1e03037b-89a3-4b00-a5ae-81229ccdf5c7.
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Catherine ('Kitty') Clive (1711-1785) was the most famous singer-actress of mideighteenth century London, and one of the first women whom Drury Lane managers sought to popularize specifically as a singer. Drawing on theories of star construction in cinema, this thesis explores how the public persona of Mrs Clive 'composed' the music she sang. A key ingredient in star production is the wide-ranging dissemination of the star's image. The first chapter explains how the mid-eighteenth star was produced, outlining the period equivalents to what film scholars consider the sources of modern stardom: promotion, publicity, criticism and the work. This last means of star production is considered according to period traditions of comic writing, acting and spectatorship. These activities were part of the practice, begun in the Restoration, of creating a 'line' or metacharacter to fit the skills, reputation and unique acting mannerisms of principal players. The second chapter examines the vehicle of Mrs Clive's initial success, ballad opera. Ballad opera brought to the London stage the musical and discursive traditions of the street ballad singer, who typically communicated with audiences directly through indigenous, popular tunes. Direct address and native pedigree were to remain key elements in Mrs Clive's music, regardless of the genre she was singing. Chapters 3 to 5 trace three distinct phases in Mrs Clive's star production. Chapter 3 studies her promotion by Henry Carey, who taught her distinctive vocal techniques ('natural' singing; mimicry of opera singers) and supplied a sophisticated ballad-style repertory of which she was the chief exponent, 1728-32. Through Mrs Clive, Carey promoted his music and convictions - song in 'sublimated ballad style', the attractiveness of native traditions, female rights - and these became hallmarks of the Clive persona. Chapter 4 considers Henry Fielding's Clive publicity in his musical comedies and writings for her, 1732-6. Initially, he vivified the impudent nymph of her first 1729 mezzotint through stage characters, songs and epilogues. The criticism she drew for her refusal to join 1733-4 Drury Lane actors' rebellion forced him to re-invent Mrs Clive as a 'pious daughter'. In order to galvanize support for her, he broadened his publicity and made her an icon of conservative patriotic values and an enemy of Italian opera. Chapter 5 investigates Mrs Clive's management of her own image in her 1736 battle to retain the lead role in The Beggar's Opera. After her triumph, the duties of her new writer James Miller were simply to reflect audience perception of her. Chapters 6 and 7 analyse how the Clive persona, now rooted in public fantasy, shaped her two most important 'high style' musical roles, first in Thomas Arne's Comus, and then in Handel's Samson. Chapter 6 shows how the themes and musical procedures typical of the Clive persona were wedded to Milton's Comus, which then became the imaginative touchstone for a 'Comus' environment at the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. Chapter 7 examines her history as mediator of, and collaborator with, Handel, and shows how Handel's conceptualization of Dalilah in Samson mirrored that of Arne's Euphrosyne in Comus. Chapter 8 describes her ascendancy into 'polite society' through her friendship with Horace Walpole, and summarizes the means by which Mrs Clive's talents and audience perception of her shaped the works she performed.
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Chung, Wing-yu, and 鍾詠儒. "British women writers and the city in the early twentieth century." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B2702409X.
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Hamilton, William John. ""The irrevocable ties of love and law" : rhetorics of desire in Eliza Haywood's contributions to eighteenth-century satire /." view abstract or download file of text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3201680.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2005.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 173-182). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
Books on the topic "Women authors, English – 18th century"
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Lucy, Peltz, and National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain), eds. Brilliant women: 18th-century bluestockings. New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 2008.
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Brophy, Elizabeth Bergen. Women's lives and the 18th-century English novel. Tampa: University of South Florida Press, 1991.
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H, Lonsdale Roger, ed. Eighteenth century women poets: An Oxford anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
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Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later 18th Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
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M, Rogers Katharine, ed. The Meridian anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-century plays by women. New York: Meridian, 1994.
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Teaching British women playwrights of the Restoration and eighteenth century. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2010.
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1666-1720, Pix Mary, Andrea Bernadette Diane, Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, and Iter Inc, eds. English women staging Islam, 1696-1707. Toronto: ITER, 2012.
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R, Feldman Paula, ed. British women poets of the Romantic era: An anthology. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
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Women and enlightenment in eighteenth-century Britain. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Living by the pen: Women writers in the eighteenth century. London: Routledge, 1992.
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Reitemeier, Frauke. "Late 18th Century Women Translators as Actors in the Literary Field: Margarethe Forkel-Liebeskind and Therese Forster-Huber." In The Institution of English Literature, 127–46. Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14220/9783737006293.127.
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Duke-Evans, Jonathan. "The expanding circle." In An English Tradition?, 213–43. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192859990.003.0011.
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Abstract Only from the 18th century was the idea of fair play applied to the duties of decency which powerful people owed to others, an aspect of the humanitarian revolution, the revulsion against cruelty which became the guiding principle of the Enlightenment. Sociobiological theory helps explain how empathy can spread outwards from kin to all compatriots, and ultimately all humankind. From the later 18th century people recognised the need to show fair play to the poor, and in the 19th workers themselves began to demand it. The establishment of democracy and the secret ballot in the 19th and early 20th centuries were part of this process. Enlightenment reformers used the language of fair play from the late 18th century in calling for justice between the sexes; even before then, however, early feminists had appealed implicitly to the sense of fair play when detailing the injustices suffered by women. The campaigners who eventually achieved equal voting rights for women stood squarely in this tradition. From the 19th century, too, fair play was invoked by British writers on behalf of the Irish, European peoples struggling for self-determination, and the non-white peoples of the Empire. Britons were slow to realise the incompatibility of slavery with their cult of fair play, but voices from the Empire took up and applied the tradition to their own circumstances to devastating effect. The demand for fair play was an important element in the changes which took place in all these unequal relationships in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Dodds, Lara. "Women and Fiction." In The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700, 245–60. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198860631.013.12.
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Abstract Virginia Woolf’s thought experiment—or fiction—of Judith Shakespeare was part of a larger investigation of the problem of ‘women and fiction’. This chapter returns to this problem with an investigation of the different ways that early modern women were associated with fiction: as patrons, addressees, readers, writers, and theorists. This chapter provides an overview of women’s participation in fiction in the earlier part of the seventeenth century. The examples of Margaret Tyler and Mary Sidney Herbert demonstrate women’s influence on the development of early modern fiction as translators, editors, and co-authors. Further, the association of women and fiction in the period created ‘women and fiction’ as a complex of ideas that shaped women’s engagement with fiction as both readers and writers. This chapter analyses Mary Wroth and Margaret Cavendish’s fictional works, demonstrating how these writers developed theories about the power of fiction to reflect and shape the conditions of women’s lives.
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Kabell, Inge, and Hanne Lauridsen. "English-Danish/Danish-English Dictionaries in the Second Half of the 18th Century. A Discussion of the Authors, their Lives and their Production." In Symposium on Lexicography VI, edited by Karl Hyldgaard-Jensen. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783111592473-024.
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Percy, Carol. "British women’s roles in the standardization and study of English." In Women in the History of Linguistics, 279–304. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198754954.003.0011.
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This chapter traces key developments in the history and historiography of English, identifying women’s most-representative opportunities to engage with the linguistics of English and describing works that have earned their authors attention in modern scholarship. Women have shaped and studied the English language since speakers of a West Germanic language invaded Britain in the fifth century CE. Yet, given the subordinate status of women’s intellectual activities, their work was often oral, unacknowledged, or published pseudonymously or under a male’s name. While identifying individual women’s contributions to the standardization and study of English, I consider women’s educational opportunities and their stereotypical social roles. Their family’s status and (typically) male relatives’ support gave some women unusual advantages. Women’s stereotypical associations with domestic conversation and elementary pedagogy gave later women space to work and write on the vernacular, though persistently in ways that were low-prestige.
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Duke-Evans, Jonathan. "Fair play—the history of a phrase." In An English Tradition?, 22—C3.F1. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192859990.003.0003.
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Abstract The term “fair play” emerges in the late 14th century, and already has its modern meaning in the Scottish poet Robert Henryson a century later. By the 1590s “fair play” was well established in the language, with Shakespeare himself a prominent early adopter. For the next couple of centuries “fair play” had a secondary meaning of “free action”, and in some contexts it is not easy to say which was the primary meaning intended. We first find the idea that “fair play” is a particularly English, or British, trait in Daniel Defoe’s writings. This association with being British often goes hand in hand with the idea that the common people in particular live by a code of fair play (in which enjoyment of the spectacle of others fighting was usually an important component). We also first find in the early 18th century the association between fair play and schoolboy culture. After 1800 the analysis is based on the occurrence of “fair play” in periodical literature. The idea that fair play is an English or British trait rose sharply in the second half of the 19th century, but we also find the idea used in new ways: for example, that it requires justice in the way society treats women, the poor, or ethnic minorities. The note of scepticism or even ridicule also becomes more insistent: many writers asserted that a particular situation belied the English or British reputation for fair play, but an increasing number questioned whether that reputation had ever been justified.
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Stegner, Paul D. "Complaint." In The Oxford History of Poetry in English, 334–50. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198830696.003.0019.
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This chapter examines the development of complaint poetry in sixteenth-century England. Grouping complaint poetry according to subject matter, it first analyses complaints directed towards social, political, and religious conditions and then treats complaints that involve love and spirituality. It focuses on the incorporation and adaptation of conventional poetic forms, such as the sonnet and verse epistle, as well as rhyme schemes, especially rhyme royal, in early modern complaint. This chapter attends to how early modern authors use complaint and personae, particularly the voice of female complainants, as a means for authorial self-promotion. At the same time, it also considers how women writers deploy complaint to authorise their own literary voices and to express their discontent regarding social abuses.
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Obladen, Michael. "Birthmark and blemish." In Oxford Textbook of the Newborn, edited by Michael Obladen, 183–90. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198854807.003.0026.
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The assumption that conceiving or pregnant women may harm their fetus by uncontrolled imagination originated in many cultures. Antique authors assumed visual impressions and fantasies of both parents at the time of conception or during coitus. In the late Middle Ages, only maternal, no longer paternal imagination was believed to harm the fetus, whose alleged vulnerability extended over the entire gestation. Whereas malformations were previously believed to result from untimely, adulterous, satanic, or bestial intercourse, the imagination doctrine now rendered the birth a misfortune rather than a crime, sparing maternal life and honour. In the 17th century, Fienus, Descartes, Helmont, and others developed sophisticated theories on its alleged mechanism. Systemic skin disease was related to visual impressions, local birthmarks to desires and touching her own body, and malformations were believed to result from terror with no role for the maternal hand. The imagination doctrine was discredited by the advent of teratology in the 18th century. However, it survived among the public and contributed to prejudging females as inferior, and to feelings of guilt and self-blame in mothers who gave birth to a malformed infant.
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Murmu, Maroona. "Introduction." In Words of Her Own, 1–24. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199498000.003.0001.
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The ‘Introduction’ helps the readers situate Hindu and Brahmo women’s literary outpourings within the wider sociopolitical context of nineteenth-century Bengal. It locates the eager penmanship of Bengali women within the larger and growing milieu of print literature; the tension between formal and informal forms of Bengali language; and the statistical analysis of ‘books in print’. The startling fact of the price of woman-authored books being on par with male-authored ones is a revelation about the market for women-authored texts. Extant literature on women authors in the nineteenth century considers the major scholarly epitomes that have appeared in the last 50 years in Bangla and English on women’s writings in Bengal. The ‘Chapters’ Overview’ deals with autobiographies, diaries, didactic tracts, novels, and travelogues written by women writers to examine how their literary production varied in style, content, and language form within and across genres. It demonstates both divergences and convergences in literary creations amongst male and female writers.
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Crawford, Robert. "Rabelais, Cervantes, and Libraries in Fiction." In Libraries in Literature, 17–37. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855732.003.0002.
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Abstract The most influential depictions of libraries in fiction are those of Rabelais in Gargantua and Pantagruel and of Cervantes in Don Quixote. These works and their reception in English-language literature are discussed. Stretching from the Middle Ages to the present, this chapter ranges across English and some American literature. Particular attention is paid to the notion of the library as a site of tension between order and subversive disorder, and to the library as a place associated with madness, especially the madness of scholars. Among the authors discussed are John Donne, Sir Thomas Browne, writers about women and eighteenth-century circulating libraries, Gothic novelists, and James Joyce. Though many novels are considered, more detailed consideration is given to Walter Scott’s Waverley, George Eliot’s Middlemarch, and G. K. Chesterton’s The Return of Don Quixote.
Conference papers on the topic "Women authors, English – 18th century"
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MaZixin, Cindy. "Analysis on Women Education in the 18th and 19th Century Based on Jane Eyre and Other Famous English Literature Written by Women Authors." In 2020 4th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2020). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200826.114.
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