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Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | DPC
was one of those claiming serious status for the novel by literary allusion. She uses Horace
on her title-page, Pope
to head the whole novel, and for chapter-headings Chaucer
, Shakespeare
, Goldsmith
... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susannah Gunning | Delves tells his own story as a boy and youth from the age of thirteen to twenty-two. He is brought up by Owen, the barber-scribe for the illiterate village (whom he supposes to be his... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Meeke | Jane, a widow whose only child is dead, decides to marry again, and picks the young Marquess of Montrath, heir to an earldom, whom she has first seen as a fellow visitor to the spunging-house... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Brooke | This novel is best known for its picture of settler or habitant life in Lower Canada, which FB
drew from her own years there. From a tourist point of view Lower Canada is idyllic... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Meeke | The story follows its hero's unsurprising metamorphosis: he begins as the socially negligible James Treton, an orphan, assistant in an accoucheurs' and surgeon-apothecaries' practice, and ends as Arthur, Duke of Avon. It opens with nicely... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Strutt | The title-page quotes Shakespeare
: later on Pope
, Thomson
, Thomas Tickell
, Charles Cotton
, and others are quoted too. Characters include a seducer and promiser-breaker who dies in a duel. The central... |
Intertextuality and Influence | B. M. Croker | The first chapter is has an epigraph from Pope
(A youth of frolic, an old age of cards) and Croker goes on to head her chapters with great literary names like Milton
and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | Some of her contributions are related (sometimes ironically or satirically related) to women's issues and the New Woman: Great Marriage Insurance Scheme, How Women Can Easily Make Provision for their Old Age... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sappho | Sappho
has inspired many original English poems, including John Lyly
's Sapho and Phao [sic], 1584; Alexander Pope
's Sapho to Phaon, 1712, and Eloisa to Abelard, 1717; and Mary Robinson
's... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Hall | These stories tend to stress the importance of strong moral instruction and guidance for children. Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe. 23 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Croker | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Fanshawe | One of the poems, a delightful Ode which imitates or parodies several well-known passages in various works by Gray
, was written not by CF
but by her friend Mary Berry
, some time before... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jolley | One of the essays in this book is devoted to the topic of the author's mother's lover. She titled it What Sins to Me Unknown Dipped Me in Ink?—a question asked by Alexander Pope |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phebe Gibbes | The title of this work quotes Pope
's phrase about woman as God's last, best gift to Adam after his creation. |
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