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Intertextuality and Influence | Georgiana Chatterton | She headed her chapters with quotations which draw on European as well as English literature: Petrarch
, Byron
, Germaine de Staël
. In its early stages the book may read like a courtship novel... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Selina Davenport | It opens with England, with all thy faults I love thee still!—a quotation not from Byron
's Beppo, which lay still two years in the future, but from Cowper
's The Task (whence... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Beeton | Notwithstanding the putative focus on management, the bulk of the 44-chapter book is taken up with discussion of food, from the chapters on Arrangement and Economy of the Kitchen and Introduction to Cookery to the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Desai | Influenced by Eliot
's Four Quartets, Clear Light of Day deals with time as destroyer and preserver, and with what the bondage of time does to people. Gopal, N. Raj. A Critical Study of the Novels of Anita Desai. Atlantic Publishers and Distributors. 90 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume cost nine shillings and sixpence, and when the edition of 1,000 sold out, FH
's share of the profits split with John Murray
was £66. According to recent editors of the text, the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Theodora Benson | While the title alludes to Lewis Carroll
, the chapters are headed with quotations which begin with Shakespeare
and Verlaine
, move through such less usual sources as Punch and Rupert Brooke
, and conclude... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ellen Johnston | In contrast to the life-writings of her working-class contemporary Hannah Cullwick
, EJ
's autobiography is remarkably self-reflexive and literary. She says that an account of her life in Dundee alone, her trials, disappointments, joys... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mathilde Blind | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth
, Byron
, Coleridge
, Goethe
, Schiller
—and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Paston | Though this novel shares some terrain with Gissing
's New Grub Street, critic Margaret Stetz
finds that the two have little in common, since they take aim at very different aspects of the contemporary... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Sewell | MS
wrote mainly in verse for a working-class audience with the intent of instilling moral virtues in her readers. She believed that children memorize poetry easily, and that their imaginations are cultivated and their intellects... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Blamire | Scholars have debated whether The Nun's Return to the World may have been seen by Byron
, and have influenced his poem The Prisoner of Chillon, published in June 1816. Since the eldest child... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen
, though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau
on the topic of the sensitive... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Wentworth Morton | The title-page quotes romantic, melancholy lines from Byron
's Childe Harold. Bottorff, William K., and Sarah Wentworth Morton. “Introduction”. My Mind and its Thoughts, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, pp. 5-16. 12 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
was encouraged to write from an early age, particularly by her mother. She would later recall how when she was eight and had just learned to write, her godfather bought her a beautiful brand... |
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