Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century Claudia Thomas Kairoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kairoff, Claudia Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seward, Anna, 1742-1809--Criticism and interpretation.

England--Intellectual life--18th century.

England.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After nearly two hundred years of critical neglect, Seward is attracting renewed attention, and with this book Kairoff makes a strong and convincing case for including Anna Seward's remarkable literary achievements among the most important of the late eighteenth century.

Contents:

Under suspicious circumstances : the (critical) disappearance of Anna Seward

"Fancy's shrine" : Anna Seward and Lady Miller's Batheaston poetical assemblies

Anna Seward and the profession of poetry

Anna Seward, British patriot

Wartime correspondent : Seward, the French wars, and late-century patriotism

Seward and sensibility : Louisa, a poetical novel, in four epistles

Louisa and the late eighteenth-century family romance

Seward and the sonnet I : Milton's champion

Seward and the sonnet II : corresponding poems

Seward and the sonnet III : the "lost" Honora

Seward's memoirs of

Dr. Darwin : digging in the botanical garden

Anna Seward, Samuel Johnson, and the end of the eighteenth century.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4214-0663-2

OCLC:

810039529

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access