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Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes Francis Bacon
and Joseph Addison
. Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press. 68 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Murray | This volume opens with The Plan of a School, and then, continuing a story-line from volume one, with Mrs Wheatley's demanding of Miss Le Maine how she can use rouge and plume herself on... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Johnson | The poem is headed with a quotation from Psalm 19: The Heavens declare the Glory of God, & the Firmament showeth his handy work—the same psalm which Addison
had famously rendered as The spacious... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Pearson | An introductory address To the Reviewers urges them (with the trembling deemed appropriate for a woman writer) not to read the book in the morning but in the period of good humour after dinner. Pearson, Susanna. The Medallion. G. G. and J. Robinson. 1: 7-8 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Savage | The opening poem, Nothing New, situates the anxieties of authors in regard to critics in the tradition of anxieties of lovers: both are right to be anxious. The contents include an English translation of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Smedley | By now Samuel is changing. He likens Johanna to Blake
, whom she has quoted, though he has hitherto admired the balance and rationality of Addison
. Smedley, Constance. Justice Walk. G. Allen and Unwin. 136, 249 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah, Lady Cowper | The diary's first volume opens with a preface which expresses conventional modesty bluntly, without the customary effort at elegance or grace: Books generally begin with a Preface which draws in the Reader to go on... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Smythies | The novel offers in passing an amusing catalogue of an old-fashioned library, whose first items are heroic romances like Ibraham; Cassandra; Cleopatra [by Madeleine de Scudéry
and Gauthier de La Calprenède
]. Several... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mercy Otis Warren | Though the play is set in Servia (a place chosen not for its history or geography but its sound), the names are Roman, matching the title-page quotation from Addison
's Cato. All the characters... |
Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | |
Occupation | John Milton | As to poetry, Paradise Lost was quickly recognised as a classic. In 1674, while it was still a very recent text, Dryden
praised it as undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime... |
Reception | Eliza Haywood | In 1795, by which time the novel was generally disapproved as coarse and sexually explicit, a correspondent of the Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
defended it in terms which acknowledged its indelicate language and its... |
Reception | Elizabeth Helme | The Critical reviewed this novel two months after publication. It goes unmentioned by Virgil B. Heltzel
in Fair Rosamond. A Study of the Development of a Literary Theme, 1947. Those preceding Helme in treating... |
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