Price, Leah. The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel. Cambridge University Press.
119-23
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Sarah Austin | Leading intellectuals and artists who visited SA
's salon included historian Auguste Mignet
, philosopher and politician Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire
, political writer Alexis de Tocqueville
, historian Augustin Thierry
, economists Léon Faucher
, Frédéric Bastiat |
Publishing | Annie Besant | AB
published anonymously in 1875, with Thomas Scott
, her first pamphlet on the topic of atheism. On the Nature and Existence of God owed much to the influence of her new friend Charles Bradlaugh |
Textual Features | Mathilde Blind | The opening narrative poem, which draws inspiration from her visit to Scotland in 1873, is 65 pages long. In legend St Oran was an associate of St Columba, one of the group of monks who... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh engages with a wide range of contemporary debates and social issues, paramount among them the roles of women and the role of the poet in contemporary society. It challenges, for instance, long before... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Power Cobbe | This is a social progressivist argument, trading in chauvinistic notions of British cultural and racial superiority, and strongly dependent on the notion of inherited proclivities as well as faith in social systems as shapers of... |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | While they were in Paris their visitors included philosopher and politician Victor Cousin
, writers Alfred de Vigny
, Jules Barthélemy Saint Hilaire
, and Léon de Wailly
, Positivist philosopher Auguste Comte
, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Eliot | As she moved on intellectually from her religious youth, she became steeped in the Higher Criticism of the Bible, and increasingly interested in alternative explanatory systems, particularly those of social science—including Herbert Spencer
... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | This was followed by Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot, 1873, and The George Eliot Birthday Book, 1878. Price, Leah. The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel. Cambridge University Press. 119-23 |
Publishing | George Henry Lewes | GHL
serially published Comte
's Philosophy of the Sciences in The Leader. Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press. 46 |
Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | HM
published The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte
, Freely Translated and Condensed; it appeared in two volumes from John Chapman
. Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press. 217 Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 2: 385 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Harriet Martineau | When Edward Lombe
, a wealthy follower of Comte, learned of the project, he sent HM
£500. From this she paid for the printing expenses and took £200 for her own payment. She also arranged... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Martineau | HM
credits Comte
in her preface with an immense influence on recent intellectual developments: his ideas, she writes, are tacitly recognised as the foundation of all that is systematic in our knowledge. Comte, Auguste. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte. Translator Martineau, Harriet, Peter Eckler. 3 |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Comte
himself was so impressed by her work that he had it translated into French and substituted for his own original in the Positivist Library, his personal selection of the 270 great books worthy... |
Textual Features | Harriet Martineau | Critic Linda H. Peterson
places the Autobiography as a response to the domestic memoir generally and to the domestication of the religious and intellectual in the memoirs of various women including Charlotte Tonna
. Instead... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Stuart Mill | In part, the book focuses on the philosophy of Auguste Comte
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |