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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 | Edith Wharton | After an epigraph from Goethe
(in German) EW
begins with her earliest memory, which she identifies with the birth of identity and relates in the third person, of the little girl who eventually became me... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amy Levy | AL
acknowledged the influence on her poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, Goethe
, Heine
, Robert Browning
, Swinburne
(whose poem Félise she answered in Félise to Her Lover), and James Thomson
(the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Matilda Betham-Edwards | The poems are printed chronologically (by the author's desire rather than the editor's). MBE
's introduction says nothing about her subject's parentage or his life-history, but canvasses the issues involved in selecting from his poems... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Gertrude Stein | Critic Shirley Neuman
sees this opera as an important step towards the final version of Ida.GS
's Faustus (unlike Marlowe
's or Goethe
's) is tormented by the fact that he cannot go... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Maria Williams | This novel re-writes Rousseau
's Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloise in the sentimental style of Frances Sheridan
's Sidney Bidulph or Henry Mackenzie
's Julia de Roubigné. Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon. 33 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Robert Lee Wolff
argues that this is one of MEB
's very best Wilkie Collins
-style investigations. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 243 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | She designed it to combat the influence of romantic fiction, and to answer Germaine de Staël
's Delphine and Goethe
's Sorrows of Werther. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon. 318-19 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Maria Williams | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Set on the coast of Devon fifty years earlier, it traces the fates of two strong characters: Methodist preacher and shopkeeper Joshua Haggard and his daughter Naomi. In the opening scene, Joshua rescues Oswald Pentreath... |
Literary responses | Germaine de Staël | Goethe
was so impressed with this essay that he translated it into German. Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg. 47 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Literary responses | Helen Craik | Neilson
detected Werterism in HC
's poems: a tragic sentimentality and preference for suicidal and murderous subjects, which conformed to a current mode even if it was not in fact a direct response to Goethe
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Anna Mary Howitt | Rossetti deeply admired this picture, which was Pre-Raphaelite in technique, showing a woman in mourning pose in sunlight, and was inspired by Goethe
's Faust. Howitt's paintings generally focused on melancholy female subjects or... |
Occupation | Margaret Fuller | The Conversations were not without their critics, however. Maria Weston Chapman
, head of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
, criticised them for failing to address abolition explicitly. Chapman may have influenced the opinion which... |
Occupation | Thomas Carlyle | In 1814, TC
left the University of Edinburgh
and started teaching, taking up a position at Annan Academy
. He returned to Edinburgh in 1819 to pursue his literary aspirations. While there, he also worked... |
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