The Performance Of Authorship In Eighteenth Century English Periodicals
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The Performance Of Authorship In Eighteenth Century English Periodicals
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Author : Manushag Navart Powell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Performance Of Authorship In Eighteenth Century English Periodicals written by Manushag Navart Powell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with English periodicals categories.
The eighteenth-century essay periodical is a remarkably self-reflexive genre. These texts helped define English middle-class politics, manners, marriage, fashion, and popular culture, but they are also deeply, loudly interested in what it means to be an English author. Through the device of the eidolon---that is, the fictitious but often well-developed author-editor personality that organizes the works---periodical authors are able to meditate more openly and often than poets or novelists on the intercourse between professional authors and their audiences. This study's introduction considers the fascinating and often painful manipulations undertaken by periodicals as they attempt to marry the pleasure of reading to the desire of the literary marketplace to observe the author. Much of the essay periodical's appeal hinges on a rhetorical version of dramatic flair, to which the performative categories of gender and class are key. What gradually becomes clear is that while eidolons as a group comprise a recognizable class of fictional character, individually they tend toward the cross-dressed, colorful, and contradictory. Chapter 2 explores the many trials and tribulations undertaken by the bellicose first author of the Female Tatler in her two nearly simultaneous paper wars, wherein the disputed quality of authorial gentility becomes more important even than gender. Chapter 3 re-examines the 1752 Fielding-Hill paper war as a complicated series of masculine posturings among the many authors it involved. Each author must carefully weigh his public need to perform masculinity against his moral responsibilities. Chapter 4 poses the question of sex and authorship from a different angle, and reads several important female-authored periodicals in an attempt to discover why it is that despite the importance of the bourgeois family unit to periodicals, eidolons almost never marry. Chapter 5 ponders the vexed attempts of periodicals to find a respectable space for feminine voices in print culture, and suggests that despite the clear value periodicals place upon masculinity in matters of authorship, the genre was thoroughly dependant upon the attractions of feminine discourse. The epilogue considers the (debatable) "death" of the genre by underscoring the importance of a rhetoric of violence and morbidity throughout its history.
Performing Authorship In Eighteenth Century English Periodicals
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Author : Manushag N. Powell
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2012-06-29
Performing Authorship In Eighteenth Century English Periodicals written by Manushag N. Powell and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals discusses the English periodical and how it shapes and expresses early conceptions of authorship in the eighteenth century. Unique to the British eighteenth century, the periodical is of great value to scholars of English cultural studies because it offers a venue where authors hash out, often in extremely dramatic terms, what they think it should take to be a writer, what their relationship with their new mass-media audience ought to be, and what qualifications should act as gatekeepers to the profession. Exploring these questions in The Female Spectator, The Drury-Lane Journal,The Midwife, The World, The Covent-Garden Journal, and other periodicals of the early and mid-eighteenth century, Manushag Powell examines several “paper wars” waged between authors. At the height of their popularity, essay periodicals allowed professional writers to fashion and make saleable a new kind of narrative and performative literary personality, the eidolon, and arguably birthed a new cult of authorial personality. In Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals, Powell argues that the coupling of persona and genre imposes a lifespan on the periodical text; the periodicals don’t only rise and fall, but are born, and in good time, they die.
Performing Authorship In Eighteenth Century English Periodicals
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Author : Manushag N. Powell
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2012
Performing Authorship In Eighteenth Century English Periodicals written by Manushag N. Powell and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
This book discusses the English periodical and how it shapes and expresses early conceptions of authorship in the eighteenth century.
Eighteenth Century Authorship And The Play Of Fiction
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Author : Emily Hodgson Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-05-15
Eighteenth Century Authorship And The Play Of Fiction written by Emily Hodgson Anderson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study looks at developments in eighteenth-century drama that influenced the rise of the novel; it begins by asking why women writers of this period experimented so frequently with both novels and plays. Here, Eliza Haywood, Frances Burney, Elizabeth Inchbald, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen explore theatrical frames--from the playhouse, to the social conventions of masquerade, to the fictional frame of the novel itself—that encourage audiences to dismiss what they contain as feigned. Yet such frames also, as a result, create a safe space for self-expression. These authors explore such payoffs both within their work—through descriptions of heroines who disguise themselves to express themselves—and through it. Reading the act of authorship as itself a form of performance, Anderson contextualizes the convention of fictionality that accompanied the development of the novel; she notes that as the novel, like the theater of the earlier eighteenth century, came to highlight its fabricated nature, authors could use it as a covert yet cathartic space. Fiction for these authors, like theatrical performance for the actor, thus functions as an act of both disclosure and disguise—or finally presents self-expression as the ability to oscillate between the two, in "the play of fiction."
The Manufacturers Of Literature
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Author : George Justice
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 2002
The Manufacturers Of Literature written by George Justice and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
"The book combines an examination of the network of material conditions of authorship and publishing during the century with literary readings in order to explore the mutually constitutive nature of literature, the material forces that influence its production, and the social world of readers."--BOOK JACKET.
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia Of Eighteenth Century Writers And Writing 1660 1789
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Author : Paul Baines
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2010-12-28
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia Of Eighteenth Century Writers And Writing 1660 1789 written by Paul Baines and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing1660-1789 features coverage of the lives and works of almost 500 notable writers based in the British Isles from the return of the British monarchy in 1660 until the French Revolution of 1789. Broad coverage of writers and texts presents a new picture of 18th-century British authorship Takes advantage of newly expanded eighteenth-century canon to include significantly more women writers and labouring-class writers than have traditionally been studied Draws on the latest scholarship to more accurately reflect the literary achievements of the long eighteenth century
The History Of British Women S Writing 1690 1750
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Author : R. Ballaster
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-09-10
The History Of British Women S Writing 1690 1750 written by R. Ballaster and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-10 with Social Science categories.
This volume charts the most significant changes for a literary history of women in a period that saw the beginnings of a discourse of 'enlightened feminism'. It reveals that women engaged in forms old and new, seeking to shape and transform the culture of letters rather than simply reflect or respond to the work of their male contemporaries.
A Companion To British Literature Volume 3
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Author : Robert DeMaria, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-12-13
A Companion To British Literature Volume 3 written by Robert DeMaria, Jr. and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Companion to British Literature, The Long Eighteenth Century, 1660 - 1830
Charles Macklin And The Theatres Of London
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Author : Ian Newman
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-15
Charles Macklin And The Theatres Of London written by Ian Newman and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-15 with Performing Arts categories.
Charles Macklin (1699?–1797) was one of the most important figures in the eighteenth-century theatre. Born in Ireland, he began acting in London in around 1725 and gave his final performance in 1789 – no other actor can claim to have acted across seven decades of the century, from the reign of George I to the Regency Crisis of 1788. He is credited alongside Garrick with the development of the natural school of acting and gave a famous performance of Shylock that gave George II nightmares. As a dramatist, he wrote one of the great comic pieces of the mid-century (Love à la Mode, 1759), as well as the only play of the century to be twice refused a performance licence (The Man of the World, 1781). He opened an experimental coffeehouse in Covent Garden, he advocated energetically for actors’ rights and copyright reform for dramatists, and he successfully sued theatre rioters. In short, he had an astonishingly varied career. With essays by leading experts on eighteenth-century culture, this volume provides a sustained critical examination of his career, illuminating many aspects of eighteenth-century theatrical culture and of the European Enlightenment, and explores the scholarly benefit – and thrill – of restaging Macklin’s work in the twenty-first century.
A Cultural History Of Hair In The Age Of Enlightenment
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Author : Margaret K. Powell
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-12-10
A Cultural History Of Hair In The Age Of Enlightenment written by Margaret K. Powell and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-10 with History categories.
Hair, or lack of it, is one the most significant identifiers of individuals in any society. In Antiquity, the power of hair to send a series of social messages was no different. This volume covers nearly a thousand years of history, from Archaic Greece to the end of the Roman Empire, concentrating on what is now Europe, North Africa, and the Near East. Among the key issues identified by its authors is the recognition that in any given society male and female hair tend to be opposites (when male hair is generally short, women's is long); that hair is a marker of age and stage of life (children and young people have longer, less confined hairstyles; adult hair is far more controlled); hair can be used to identify the 'other' in terms of race and ethnicity but also those who stand outside social norms such as witches and mad women. The chapters in A Cultural History of Hair in Antiquity cover the following topics: religion and ritualized belief, self and society, fashion and adornment, production and practice, health and hygiene, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, class and social status, and cultural representations.