Reynolds, Frances. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Maria Williams | She used her opening sentence to link this book with its predecessor. Again she addressed herself to answering Burke
(implicitly referencing him in denying that the age of chivalry is dead), by means of arguing... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Reynolds | With some apology, FR
uses a visual aid, a diagram, to show the relation between Nature, Beauty, Truth, Sublimity, and so on. Reynolds, Frances. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste. v |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Wollstonecraft | MW
was replying to a number of authoritative male texts about the nature of women: by Burke
(who in Reflections on the Revolution in France had glorified Marie-Antoinette
and dismissed non-queenly femininity as animal), Rousseau |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah Brand | This heroic tragedy (full title Huniades; or, The Siege of Belgrade) is given with passages restored that were omitted in performance. It is set in 1456 (three years after Constantinople, capital of the Christian... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | MAS
adds a new aesthetic category, the contemplative sublime, alongside the Burke
an or terrible sublime and other categories related to the Burkean beautiful. She derives her thinking from women as well as men. In... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Wollstonecraft | They included The first book of a series of lessons for children (written for MW
's elder daughter, Fanny Imlay
); a series of personal letters addressed to Imlay
(passionately expressive, ruggedly self-analytical), and to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | The pamphlet takes the form of a letter to an unnamed man. Along with the particular example of her husband, it attacks the government of England: but how could this country be anything but the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | Notable features of the book are the friendship between the heroine, Celestina, and a servant, Jessy (whose life-story is one of oppression and deprivation), and the handling of a prostitute (seduced at the age of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | This epistolary novel is highly political; its preface asserts a woman's right to interest in politics. The letters in it span the period from June 1790 to February 1792, tracking the events of the French... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Thomas | The quotations that head her chapters range through more than a dozen well-known male names from Shakespeare
through Racine
in French, Prior
and Pope
to Sterne
and Burke
, plus a couple of unidentified women.... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | These essays are not closely related to the aesthetic text by Edmund Burke
(published in April 1757) to which their title makes allusion. They contribute to the contemporary debate on the respective value of fiction... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | CGOB
quotes Henry Grattan
on her title-page, Edmund Burke
at the head of the first chapter in volume two, and, to head the opening chapter of volume one, words from the Fenian Captain MacKay... |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Johnson | Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period... |
Friends, Associates | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Other Streatham habitueés were Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Arthur Murphy
, Edmund Burke
, Oliver Goldsmith
, Charles Burney
, and David Garrick
. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press. 157 |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | During her childhood, ECK
associated with a variety of celebrated people through her family connections. Her mother was a close friend of painter and writer Frances Reynolds
(sister to the more famous painter Sir Joshua Reynolds |
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