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Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | The title-page quotation from Paradise Lost features the archangel Raphael's pronouncement that it is better for human beings to know That which before us lies in daily life than things remote. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume provides lavish notes to explain its sometimes quite obscure historical figures and settings, and cites a wide range of authors including Plutarch
, Shakespeare
, Milton
, and Germaine de Staël
. FH |
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 | 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 | Mrs E. M. Foster | As an epistolary novel, Concealment lacks the characteristic metanarrative of other MEMF
novels, though an interesting prologue addressed to the reader from the Authoress cautions against the practice of concealment. Foster also identifies herself, in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Medora Gordon Byron | The title-page quotes Milton
's Paradise Lost (There wanted yet the master-work); the preface quotes Samuel Johnson
saying that the novelist needs to have first-hand experience of the living world, but that... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary More | MM
believes that she is saying something new and not commonly known when she argues that male power over women has grown gradually by unjust laws. She sets out by quoting from and commenting on... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | |
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 | Catherine Hubback | CH
heads her volumes and chapters with quotations. Wordsworth
is the most-used here; among other lines, he is cited for A little onward lend thy guiding hand / To these dark steps, a little farther... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Griffith | He describes her with a line from Donne
's Second Anniversary. EG
's range of reference here includes Rousseau
, Milton
, Frances Greville
, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
. Characters discuss and... |
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 | Mary Catherine Hume | The starting-point for the poem is the tradition (subtly questioned) of Sappho's suicide as an abandoned woman; this fact links the text to other responses to the topic by other women poets including Felicia Hemans |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Freke | Most striking of all is A Diologue between the Serpentt and Eve, which may have been written on the model of the speeches in Milton
's Paradise Lost, but does not refer to... |
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