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Imagining selves : essays in honor of Patricia Meyer Spacks / edited by Rivka Swenson and Elise Lauterbach.
Van Pelt Library PR448.S35 I63 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self in literature.
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--History and criticism.
- Spacks, Patricia Meyer.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Genre and Image
- "Chasms in the Story": Sophia Lee's The Recess and David Hume's History of England / Cynthia Wall 21
- Everlasting Whipcords and Homing Pigeons: Formal Realism in Edgeworth's Children's Tales / Jill Campbell 41
- Very Private Matters: Imagining the Erotic in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Poetry / David T. Gies 70
- Angelic Ministers, Mortal Coils: Hamlet to The Vicar of Wakefield / Aubrey L. Williams 93
- Part 2 Reputation and Reception
- The Afterlife of the Imagination: Posthumous Adventures of Pope's Essay on Man / David Vander Meulen 113
- "Adieu Buttock": Censoring Restoration Comedies for the Early Eighteenth-Century Stage / Deborah Kaplan 132
- Never Boring, or Imagine My Surprise: Interregnum Women and the Culture of Reading / Margaret J. M. Ezell 155
- Manliness and Poetry, and Pope: Gender, Language, Nation / J. Paul Hunter 170
- Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763, and Frances Sheridan's The Discovery: Imagining the Maternal / Gordon Turnbull 191
- Part 3 Rereading and Retelling
- Unfolding Characters: Attention and Autobiography in Pride and Prejudice / David Marshall 209
- Austen Extended/Austen for Everyday Use / Deidre Lynch 235
- Laura Riding Jackson and Unabashed Storifying; or, The Story of "Queen Story" / Jerome McGann 266
- Modern Variations on the Theme of Privacy: Language and the Private Self / Margery Sabin 287
- Patricia Meyer Spacks: A Working Bibliography and Discography 305.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references, discography (pages 305-310) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780874130126
- 0874130123
- OCLC:
- 226911779
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