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Eighteenth-Century Characters E. McGirr

Eighteenth-Century Characters von E. McGirr

Eighteenth-Century Characters E. McGirr

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Zusammenfassung

This book offers a brief introduction to the literature of the Eighteenth century, using character types as a starting point. It presents contextualized readings of stock characters, exploring how their roles change over the century. This fresh approach provides the background to understand the literature of the period and embark on further study

Eighteenth-Century Characters Zusammenfassung

Eighteenth-Century Characters: A Guide to the Literature of the Age E. McGirr

Eighteenth-Century Characters offers a concise introduction to the eighteenth century, using characters as its starting point. Elaine M. McGirr presents contextualized readings of stock characters from canonical and popular literature, such as:
- the rake and the fop
- the country gentleman
- the good woman
- the coquette and the prude
- the country maid and the town lady
- the Catholic, the Protestant and the British Other.

Each chapter explores how a character's significance and role changes over the century, illustrating and explaining radical shifts in taste, ideology and style. Also featuring illustrations, a Chronology and a helpful Bibliography and Further Reading section, this essential guide will provide students with the necessary background to understand the period's literature and to embark on further study.

Eighteenth-Century Characters Bewertungen

'The 'characters' assembled by Elaine McGirr are figures that anyone who studies the Eighteenth century is certain to encounter; the particular history out of which each arises and the multiple uses to which all are put in literary texts are among the necessary questions about them that everyone who reads this book will have the tools to tackle.' - Peter Merchant, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK 'A rich and gripping approach to Eighteenth-century literary history.' - Helen Thompson, Northwestern University, USA

Über E. McGirr

ELAINE M. McGIRR is Lecturer in English and Drama at Royal Holloway University of London, UK, teaching in both the Department of English and the Department of Drama and Theatre. She has previously taught in the English and History departments at Washington University in St. Louis, USA, and was a visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, in 2003-4.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations.- Chronology.- Introduction.- PART I: MEN: THE MAKINGS OF AN ENGLISHMAN.- The Rake.- The Fop.- The Country Gentleman.- The Cit.- PART II: WOMEN: 'MOST WOMEN HAVE NO CHARACTERS AT ALL'.- The Heroine; or Dwindle into a Wife.- The Coquette and the Prude.- The Country Maid and the Town Lady.- Learned Ladies and Female Wits.- PART III: OTHERS.- The Catholic Other: Monsieurs and Macaronis.- The Protestant Other: Low and High Dutch.- The British Other: The Scot.- Endnotes.- Primary Works Cited.- Bibliography and Further Reading.- Index.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR008752674
9781403985583
1403985588
Eighteenth-Century Characters: A Guide to the Literature of the Age E. McGirr
E. McGirr
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Macmillan Education UK
20070125
226
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