Out of What Began


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The first book of its kind, Out of What Began traces the development of a distinctive tradition of Irish poetry over the course of three centuries. Beginning with Jonathan Swift in the early eighteenth century and concluding with such contemporary poets as Seamus Heaney and Eavan Boland, Gregory A. Schirmer looks at the work of nearly a hundred poets. Considering the evolving political and social environments in which they lived and wrote, Schirmer shows how Irish poetry and culture have come to be shaped by the struggle to define Irish identity. Schirmer includes a large number of accomplished poets who have been unjustly neglected in standard accounts of Irish literature; many of these writers are women, whose work has been kept in the shadows cast by that of well-known male poets. He also emphasizes the importance of political poetry in a country that continues to be torn by sectarian violence. With its rich selection of poetic voices, Out of What Began reveals the political, social, and religious diversity of Irish culture.




The Making of the Sympathetic Imagination


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How is it that we feel with fictional characters and so approve or disapprove of their actions? For many British Enlightenment thinkers writing at a time when sympathy was the pivot of ethics as well as poetics, this question was crucial. Asserting that the notion of the sympathetic imagination prominent in Romantic criticism and poetry originates in Moral Sentimentalism, this study traces the emergence of what became a key concept of intersubjectivity. It shows how, contrary to earlier traditions, Francis Hutcheson and his disciples successively established the imagination rather than reason as the pivotal faculty through which sympathy is rendered morally effective. Writing at the interface of ethics and poetics, Adam Smith, Lord Kames and others explored the sympathetic imagination as a means of both explaining emotional reader response and discovering moral distinctions. As a result, the sentimental novel became the sight of ethical controversy. Arguing against the dominant view of research which claims that the novel of sensibility is mostly uncritically sentimental, the book demonstrates that it is precisely in this genre that the sympathetic imagination is sceptically assessed in terms of its literary and moral potential.




Women's Travel Writings in Italy, Part I Vol 4


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Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings are multi-volume editions with full texts reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly apparatus. The texts have been carefully selected to illustrate various themes in women's history.




Catalogue of Printed Books


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Delphi Complete Works of Oliver Goldsmith (Illustrated)


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The eighteenth century author Oliver Goldsmith produced a diverse body of works, featuring a famous novel, plays, poetry, essays, histories and many other non-fiction works. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete fictional works of Oliver Goldsmith, with almost the complete non-fiction, as well as numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Goldsmith’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novel, plays and other texts * ALL the plays, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Goldsmith’s rare children’s tale THE HISTORY OF LITTLE GOODY TWO-SHOES * Includes Goldsmith’s essays * Many rare non-fiction works appearing in digital print for the first time * Features four biographies - discover Goldsmith’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novel THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD The Plays THE GOOD-NATUR’D MAN SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER The Children’s Tale THE HISTORY OF LITTLE GOODY TWO-SHOES The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Non-Fiction AN ENQUIRY INTO THE PRESENT STATE OF POLITE LEARNING IN EUROPE THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD THE LIFE OF RICHARD NASH OF BATH THE MYSTERY REVEALED THE MARTIAL REVIEW AN HISTORY OF ENGLAND, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS FROM A NOBLEMAN TO HIS SON THE HISTORY OF ROME THE LIFE OF HENRY LORD VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE THE LIFE OF THOMAS PARNELL, D.D. ARCHDEACON OF CLOGHER THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND: FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DEATH OF GEORGE II DR. GOLDSMITH’S ROMAN HISTORY ABRIDGED BY HIMSELF FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AN HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE THE GRECIAN HISTORY AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND DR. GOLDSMITH’S HISTORY OF GREECE, ABRIDGED, FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS A SURVEY OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY The Essays THE BEE: BEING ESSAYS ON THE MOST INTERESTING SUBJECTS MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS ESSAYS BY MR. GOLDSMITH: COLLECTA REVIRESCUNT The Biographies OLIVER GOLDSMITH: A BIOGRAPHY by Washington Irving OLIVER GOLDSMITH by Henry Francis Cary OLIVER GOLDSMITH by E. S. LANG Buckland INTRODUCTION TO OLIVER GOLDSMITH by Austin Dobson Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles




The Life Of George Washington, Vol. 4


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"The Life Of George Washington" is a monumental work on the life of one of the most famous American presidents. Originally published in five volumes between 1853 and 1859, it is a treasure chest of information on Washington and the Civil War. This work is presumeably the most intimate and fascinating biography of a man who worked his way from an Army commander to the first President of the United States. This is volume four out of five.




The World of William and Mary


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This volume contributes to the current reassessment of the "Glorious Revolution" by bringing together the work of leading American, British, and Dutch scholars who present a series of interpretive case studies on a wide variety of political, economic, religious, and cultural issues. What emerges from these fifteen essays is the conviction that in spite of differing angles of approach, the process of reinterpreting the Revolution requires a combined study of English and Dutch history within the context of European history. The long tradition of viewing the events of 1688-89 as a uniquely British affair, which gave birth to liberal England with its contingent political and religious liberties, is finally put to rest.







Sympathy in Transformation


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There is little doubt that sympathy plays a pivotal role in aesthetic as well as moral experience, yet also little agreement on how to describe this connection and its long history. This volume investigates the changes in the concept of sympathy as well as its rhetorical, poetical and ethical functions from antiquity to the threshold of Romanticism. The focus is on sympathy's development from a cosmological principle expressing the coherence, correspondence, and unity of all things into a theoretical key concept of intersubjectivity informing moral philosophy, criticism and literature. Thus, Sympathy in Transformation offers important insights into the many ways in which, when sympathy migrates into diverse discourses in Early Modernity, its ancient origins dwindle out of sight, while some of its central elements re-emerge in a surprising manner.




The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 4, The Eighteenth Century


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This is a comprehensive 1997 account of the history of literary criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800. Unlike previous histories, it is not just a chronological survey of critical writing, but a multidisciplinary investigation of how the understanding of literature and its various genres was transformed, at the start of the modern era, by developments in philosophy, psychology, the natural sciences, linguistics, and other disciplines, as well as in society at large. In the process, modern literary theory - at first often implicit in literary texts themselves - emancipated itself from classical poetics and rhetoric, and literary criticism emerged as a full-time professional activity catering for an expanding literate public. The volume is international both in coverage and in authorship. Extensive bibliographies provide guidance for further specialised study.