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This study examines concepts of morality and structures of domestic relationships in Samuel Richardson’s novels, situating them in the context of eighteenth-century moral writings and reader reactions. Based on a detailed analysis of Richardson’s work, this book maintains that he sought both to uphold hierarchical concepts of individual duty, and to warn of the consequences if such hierarchies were abused. In his final novel, Richardson aimed at a synthesis between social hierarchy and individual liberty, patriarchy and female self-fulfilment. His work, albeit rooted in patriarchal values, paved the way for proto-feminist conceptions of female character.

English literature --- Eighteenth-century novel --- Samuel Richardson --- ethics --- gender

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This study examines concepts of morality and structures of domestic relationships in Samuel Richardson’s novels, situating them in the context of eighteenth-century moral writings and reader reactions. Based on a detailed analysis of Richardson’s work, this book maintains that he sought both to uphold hierarchical concepts of individual duty, and to warn of the consequences if such hierarchies were abused. In his final novel, Richardson aimed at a synthesis between social hierarchy and individual liberty, patriarchy and female self-fulfilment. His work, albeit rooted in patriarchal values, paved the way for proto-feminist conceptions of female character.

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 --- English literature --- Eighteenth-century novel --- Samuel Richardson --- ethics --- gender

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This lively collection of essays by a team of international scholars brings back to view the larger constellation of writers eclipsed by our modern obsession with a handful of canonical poets. The “lost Romantics” include authors who were once famous and are now forgotten, neglected authors who are attracting new critical attention, and the utterly obscure, the truly lost. Readers will discover a richer, stranger Romanticism than the one they thought they knew. -Ian Duncan, Professor, Florence Green Bixby Chair in English Berkeley, author of Scott's Shadow and The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (Princeton, 2007) and Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution (Princeton, 2019) This book features a collection of essays, shedding subversively new light on Romanticism and its canon of big-six, white, male Romantics by focusing on marginalised, forgotten and lost writers and their long-neglected works. Probing the realms of literary and cultural lostness, this book identifies different strata of oblivion and shows how densely the net of contacts and rivalries was woven around the ostensibly monolithic stars of the Romantic age. It reveals how the lost poets inspired the production of anthologised poetry, that they served as indispensable muses, sidekicks and interlocutors of the big six and that their relevance for the literary scene has been continuously underrated. This is also surprisingly true for some creators of famous one-hit wonders (Frankenstein, The Vampyre) who were suddenly rocketed to fame or notoriety, but could not help seeing their other works of fiction turning into abortive flops. Norbert Lennartz is Professor of English Literature at the University of Vechta (Germany). He has published widely on Romanticism, in particular on Byron, and on the paragons of the Victorian Age (Dickens Hardy, Wilde). He has just completed a full-length study on literary representations of tears, bodily fluids and porous bodies.

Romanticism --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature, Modern—18th century. --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Eighteenth-Century Literature. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature.

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Long description: Niemand könnte sich dazu bekennen, zur Unmündigkeit zu erziehen. Dass man nicht so recht etwas gegen Mündigkeit haben kann, ist ein erster Schritt, diese Errungenschaft der Aufklärung preiszugeben. Mündigkeit wird in Präambeln von Lehrplänen und in Sonntagsreden beschworen. Aber warum sollte sie den Erziehungsalltag von Schule oder sportlichem Training prägen? Was macht den Geist der Aufklärung aus, dem wir uns da verpflichtet haben? Der Sport und die Sportwissenschaften tun sich notorisch schwer mit mündigen Athletinnen. Klar ist, dass es einen Unterschied zwischen disziplinierten Körpern und mündigen Leibern gibt. Dieser Unterschied steht und fällt mit der Bildung von Personen, die nicht fabrizierbar ist. Das wiederum verlangt ein antirationalistisches Konzept einer leidenschaftlichen Vernunft. Mündige Leiber sourcen ihren physischen Anteil nicht aus, um ihn unter eine kontrollierende Macht zu stellen. Moderner Olympismus wäre, beim Wort genommen, die kantige Bildung von Eigensinn. Long description: Der Sport tut sich notorisch schwer mit mündigen Athletinnen. Klar ist, dass es einen Unterschied zwischen disziplinierten Körpern und mündigen Leibern gibt. Mündige Leiber sourcen ihren physischen Anteil nicht aus, um ihn unter eine kontrollierende Macht zu stellen. Moderner Olympismus wäre, beim Wort genommen, die kantige Bildung von Eigensinn. Biographical note: Volker Schürmann, geb. 1960 im Ruhrgebiet, hat eine Professur für Philosophie, insbesondere Sportphilosophie an der Sporthochschule Köln. Einer seiner Schwerpunkte ist Gesellschaftstheorie.

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“Metabiography is an intelligent, carefully argued, and substantial contribution to biographical criticism and theory. The comparative range, the easy yet thorough familiarity with existing scholarship, and the remarkable degree to which Caitríona Ní Dhúill anticipates and answers objections or responses to her argument, combine to produce an exciting, thoughtful, suggestive, and valuable intervention into the production and study of biography. The best book about biography I have read in many years.” - Craig Howes, Director, Center for Biographical Research, Univerity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA This book explores the contradictions of biography. It charts shifting approaches to the writing and reading of biographies, from post-hagiographical attitudes of the Enlightenment, heroic biographies of Romanticism and irreverent modernist portraits through to contemporary experiments in politically committed and hybrid forms of life writing. The book shows how biographical texts in fact destabilise the models of historical visibility, cultural prominence and narrative coherence that the genre itself seems to uphold. Addressing the fraught relationships between genre and gender, private and public, image and text, life and narrative that play out in the modern biographical tradition, Metabiography suggests new possibilities for reading, writing and thinking about this enduringly popular genre. .

Biography as a literary form. --- Biography --- Authorship --- Prose literature --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Literature, Modern—18th century. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Eighteenth-Century Literature.