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The History of Charoba, Queen of Egypt

Author : Robert L. Mack

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 366 pages

File Size : 23,24 MB

Release : 1992

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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The oriental tale, set in moonlit seraglios and peopled by mysterious veiled women, powerful sultans, and threatening genii, was a colorfully diverse and highly influential form of writing in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England. These four entertaining and unusual stories, out of print for years, add to the English literary tradition one of the most versatile forms of prose fiction. The selection includes Almoran and Hamet, a fable of political power; The History of Nourjahad, a sensuous love story of mythic resonance; The History of Charoba, a version of an original Arabic tale; and Murad the Unlucky, a corrective story warning the reader against the temptation to romanticize the Orient.



The Progress of Romance

Author : Clara Reeve

Publisher :

Page : 302 pages

File Size : 37,28 MB

Release : 2013-10

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ISBN : 9781258950026

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This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.



The history of the English novel

Author : Ernest A. Baker

Publisher : SEVERUS Verlag

Page : 301 pages

File Size : 29,61 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3863471261

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Conceding that the latter half of the 18th century holds little of true literary value besides the works of Fanny Burney, Ernest Baker nevertheless finds that the period "teems with interest" the public's demand for fiction and the rapidly increasing production of novels reshaped the book market, and "writers who were poor novelists but persons of strong views or feelings" spawned various subgenres worthy of exploration.



The History of the English Novel

Author : Ernest Albert Baker

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 310 pages

File Size : 23,55 MB

Release : 1934

Category : English fiction

ISBN :

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The School for Widows

Author : Clara Reeve

Publisher : University of Delaware Press

Page : 390 pages

File Size : 31,36 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780874138047

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Frances, Rachel, and Isabella not only survive their trials, but eventually become productive and beneficial members of society, thus serving as positive examples of the potential opportunity for widows in eighteenth-century England."--BOOK JACKET.



Novel Cleopatras

Author : Nicole Horejsi

Publisher : University of Toronto Press

Page : 291 pages

File Size : 26,45 MB

Release : 2019-04-08

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1442667400

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Advocating a revised history of the eighteenth-century novel, Novel Cleopatras showcases the novel’s origins in ancient mythology, its relation to epic narrative, and its connection to neoclassical print culture. Novel Cleopatras also rewrites the essential role of women writers in history who were typically underestimated as active participants of neoclassical culture, often excluded from the same schools that taught their brothers Greek and Latin. However, as author Nicole Horejsi reveals, a number of exceptional middle-class women were actually serious students of the classics. In order to dismiss the idea that women were completely marginalized as neoclassical writers, Horejsi takes up the character of Dido from ancient Greek mythology and her real-life counterpart Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt. Together, the legendary Dido and historical Cleopatra serve as figures for the conflation of myth and history. Horejsi contends that turning to the doomed queens who haunted the Roman imagination enabled eighteenth-century novelists to seize the productive overlap among the categories of history, romance, the novel, and even the epic.



The Arabian Nights in Historical Context

Author : Saree Makdisi

Publisher : OUP Oxford

Page : 353 pages

File Size : 43,18 MB

Release : 2008-11-13

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0191564966

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Alf layla wa layla (known in English as A Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights) changed the world on a scale unrivalled by any other literary text. Inspired by a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript, the appearance of Antoine Galland's twelve-volume Mille et Une Nuits in English translation (1704-1717), closely followed by the Grub Street English edition, drew the text into European circulation. Over the following three hundred years, a widely heterogeneous series of editions, compilations, translations, and variations circled the globe to reveal the absorption of The Arabian Nights into English, Continental, and global literatures, and its transformative return to modern Arabic literature, where it now enjoys a degree of prominence that it had never attained during the classical period. Beginning with a thorough introduction situating The Arabian Nights in its historical and cultural contexts-and offering a fresh examination of the text's multiple locations in the long history of modern Orientalism—this collection of essays by noted scholars from 'East', 'West', and in-between reassesses the influence of the Nights in Enlightenment and Romantic literature, as well as the text's vigorous after-life in the contemporary Arabic novel.



British Women Writers, 1700-1850

Author : Barbara Joan Horwitz

Publisher : Scarecrow Press

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 34,14 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780810833159

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A guide to British women authors, their works, and the writing about them.



Walter Savage Landor

Author : John Forster

Publisher : Ardent Media

Page : 180 pages

File Size : 19,77 MB

Release : 1869

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The Legend of Guy of Warwick

Author : Velma Bourgeois Richmond

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 397 pages

File Size : 12,87 MB

Release : 2021-11-18

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1000525570

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First published in 1996. This lavishly illustrated study is a comprehensive literary and social history which offers a record of changing genres, manuscript/book production, and cultural, political, and religious emphases by examining one of the most long lived popular legends in England. Guy of Warwick became part of history when he was named in chronicles and heraldic rolls. The power of the Earls of Warwick, especially Richard de Beauchamp, inspired the spread of the legend, but Guy's highest fame came in the Renaissance as one of the Nine Worthies. Widely praised in texts and allusions, Guy's feats were sung in ballads and celebrated on the stage in England and France. The first Anglo-Norman romance of Gui de Warewic, a Saxon hero of the tenth century was written in the early 13th century; the latest retellings of the legend are contemporary. Examples of Guy's legend can be found in two English translations that survived the Middle Ages, a new French prose romance, a didactic tale in the Gesta Romanorum, and late medieval versions in Celtic, German, and Catalan, as well as English. Guy remained a favorite Edwardian children's story and was featured in the Warwick Pageant, an historical extravaganza of 1906. The patriotism of World War II sparked a resurgence of interest that produced several new versions, mostly folkloric.