An Historical Compendium of the Mutability of Fortune and Honour, Etc
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Page : 62 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 1600
Category : Honor
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Page : 62 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 1600
Category : Honor
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Author : Folger Shakespeare Library
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Page : 770 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
Release : 1971
Category : England
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Author : John Wight Duff
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Page : 734 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Latin literature
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Author : Devoney Looser
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801887054
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
Author : Christine (de Pisan)
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 2017-03
Category : Education
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Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364–ca. 1431) has long been recognized as France’s first professional woman of letters, and interest in her voluminous and wide-ranging corpus has been steadily rising for decades. During the tumultuous later years of the Hundred Years’ War, Christine’s lone but strong feminine voice could be heard defending women, expounding the highest ideals for good governance, and lamenting France’s troubled times alongside her own personal trials. In The Mutability of Fortune, Christine fuses world history with autobiography to demonstrate mankind’s subjugation to the ceaselessly changing, and often cruel, whims of Fortune. Now, for the first time, this poem is accessible to an English-speaking audience, further expanding our appreciation of this ground-breaking woman author and her extraordinary body of work.
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Page : 740 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 1862
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Author : Famianus STRADA
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Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,83 MB
Release : 1667
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Author : William Jerdan
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Page : 878 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 1830
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Page : 858 pages
File Size : 38,33 MB
Release : 1830
Category : Great Britain
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Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 1891
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