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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524870203321

Autore

Kairoff Claudia Thomas

Titolo

Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century / Claudia Thomas Kairoff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-4214-0663-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Disciplina

821/.6

Soggetti

Electronic books.

England Intellectual life 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Under suspicious circumstances : the (critical) disappearance of Anna Seward -- "Fancy's shrine" : Anna Seward and Lady Miller's Batheaston poetical assemblies -- Anna Seward and the profession of poetry -- Anna Seward, British patriot -- Wartime correspondent : Seward, the French wars, and late-century patriotism -- Seward and sensibility : Louisa, a poetical novel, in four epistles -- Louisa and the late eighteenth-century family romance -- Seward and the sonnet I : Milton's champion -- Seward and the sonnet II : corresponding poems -- Seward and the sonnet III : the "lost" Honora -- Seward's memoirs of-- Dr. Darwin : digging in the botanical garden -- Anna Seward, Samuel Johnson, and the end of the eighteenth century.