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Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. The essays revolve around recognized male and female figures—returning to the Boswell and Burney circle—but present arguments that dismantle traditional privileging of biographical modes. The contributors reconsider the processes of hero making in the beginning phases of a culture of celebrity. Employing the methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking material “from all sources, experience, report, and the records of human affairs,” each contributor examines within the contexts of their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy. New work on Frances Burney D’Arblay’s son, Alexander, as revealed through letters; on Isabelle de Charriere; on Hester Thrale Piozzi; and on Alicia LeFanu and Frances Burney’s realignment of family biography extend current conversations about eighteenth century biography and autobiography. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Biography as a literary form --- Autobiography --- Autobiography in literature. --- Biography in literature. --- History --- Europe --- History and criticism. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography --- Authorship --- Prose literature --- History and criticism --- Technique --- memoir, autobiography, Burney, Boswell, life writing, James Boswell, Frances Burney, Hester Lynn Piozzi, Alexander d'Arblay, Alicia LeFanu, Charles Burney, Isabelle d'Charriere, William Godwin, family, 18th century, Samuel Johnson, biography, Tanya Caldwell, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, Male Figures, Females Figures, Culture.
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Jon Mee explores the popular democratic movement that emerged in the London of the 1790s in response to the French Revolution. Central to the movement's achievement was the creation of an idea of 'the people' brought into being through print and publicity. Radical clubs rose and fell in the face of the hostile attentions of government. They were sustained by a faith in the press as a form of 'print magic,' but confidence in the liberating potential of the printing press was interwoven with hard-headed deliberations over how best to animate and represent the people. Ideas of disinterested rational debate were thrown into the mix with coruscating satire, rousing songs, and republican toasts. Print personality became a vital interface between readers and print exploited by the cast of radicals returned to history in vivid detail by Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism. This title will also be available as Open Access.
Mass media and public opinion --- Mass media and publicity --- Radicalism --- Politics and literature --- Popular culture --- History --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Extremism, Political --- Ideological extremism --- Political extremism --- Political science --- Publicity and mass media --- Publicity --- Public opinion and mass media --- Public opinion --- Political aspects --- London --- Radicalism (historical) --- Thelwall --- Thomas Hardy --- Thomas Paine --- William Godwin
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"A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality informed by the philosophy of his close friend William Godwin. Arrested for treason in 1794 and released without trial, Holcroft was notorious in his own time, but today appears mainly as a supporting character in studies of 1790s literary activism. Thomas Holcroft's Revolutionary Drama authoritatively reintroduces and reestablishes this central figure of the revolutionary decade by examining his life, plays, memoirs, and personal correspondence. In engaging with theatrical censorship, apostacy, and the response of audiences and critics to radical drama, this thoughtful study also demonstrates how theater functions in times of political repression. Despite his struggles, Holcroft also had major successes: this book examines his surprisingly robust afterlife, as his plays, especially The Road to Ruin, were repeatedly revived worldwide in the nineteenth century"--
English drama --- History and criticism. --- Holcroft, Thomas, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence. --- Thomas Holcroft, Treason Trials, melodrama, theater censorship, working-class life writing, William Godwin, Sir Thomas Lawrence, James Gillray, Robert Dighton, Richard Newton, Samuel de Wilde, William Mulready, radicalism, authorship, life writing, afterlives, The Road to Ruin, eighteenth-century theater, nineteenth-century theater, theater and performance, literary activism, 1790s, radical drama, eighteenth-century political activism.
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This new critical edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was developed by leading scholars for aspiring scientists, engineers, and medical professionals. This unique framing will make this a core text in promoting and enhancing interdisciplinary dialogue on the nature, roles, and responsibilities of scientists and engineers in society. To be published in time for the 2018 bicentennial of its original publication, this edition will be produced in print and as an enhanced e-book. The e-book will contain the full text of the novel (in the public domain) plus all of the substantial scholarly material that was commissioned and developed for this new edition, including essays by leading scholars, and will be most valuable to students and teachers of ethics. Digital features will include include reader annotation, bookmarking, and multimedia content.
Scientists --- Monsters --- Science in literature. --- Frankenstein, Victor --- Frankenstein's Monster --- Frankenstein --- Dr. Frankenstein --- Frankenstein, --- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, --- science fiction --- gothic --- horror --- European --- British --- literature --- fiction --- cautionary tale --- STEM --- science --- bioethics --- classic --- bicentennial --- Josephine Johnston --- Cory Doctorow --- Jane Maienschein --- Kate MacCord --- Alfred Nordmann --- Elizabeth Bear --- Anne K. Mellor --- Heather E. Douglas --- Creature --- Monster --- Mary Shelley --- Makers --- women in science --- science and anti-science --- values in science --- responsible innovation --- Industrial Revolution --- Mary Wollstonecraft --- William Godwin --- Percy Bysshe Shelley --- Galvanism --- Mount Tambora --- Myths --- Two Cultures --- epistolary novel --- Victor Frankenstein --- Geneva --- Prometheus --- Arctic --- Lord Byron --- John Polidori --- ghost stories --- Revisions --- Electricity --- Lightning --- Vitalism --- Chemistry --- Extinction --- Magnetism --- Moral responsibility --- Legal responsibility --- Social responsibility --- Consequences --- Obligations --- Ethics --- Maker Culture --- DIY --- Technology Adjacent Possible --- Facebook --- Surveillance --- Aristotle --- Fetal development --- Epigenesis --- Embryo --- Person --- Technoscience --- Alchemy --- uncanny valley --- animation --- complexity --- Morality --- Monstrosity --- Christianity --- Otherness --- Gender --- Nature --- Domestic Affections --- Women --- Sexuality --- Technical Sweetness --- Los Alamos --- Trinity Test --- Scientific Responsibility --- Nuclear Weapons --- adjacent possible --- synthetic biology --- robotics
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