1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990002877170203316

Titolo

Contemporary American Poetry / selected and introduced by Donald Hall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Harmondsworth : Penguin books, [1964]

Descrizione fisica

201 p. ; 19 cm

Collana

Penguin Poets ; D67

Disciplina

811.008

Soggetti

Poesia Americana - Antologie - Sec. 20

Collocazione

XV.5. 428

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784868603321

Autore

Haywood Eliza

Titolo

Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

ISBN

0-19-772601-1

1-282-36728-5

9786612367281

9786610914432

0-19-535527-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Collana

Women Writers in English 1350-1850

Altri autori (Persone)

BackscheiderPaula R. <1943->

Disciplina

823.5

823/.5

Soggetti

Women

Women - Literary collections - England

English

Languages & Literatures

English Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Selected Bibliography; Note on the Texts; A Wife to Be Lett: A Comedy (1724); The City Jilt;  or, The Alderman Turn'd Beau: A Secret History (1726); The Mercenary Lover: or, The Unfortunate Heiresses (1726); From The Fruitless Enquiry (1727); The Opera of Operas;  or, Tom Thumb the Great (1733); From Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo (1736); From The Invisible Spy (1755); From The Wife (1756)

Sommario/riassunto

This edition provides representative texts from Eliza Haywood's career, which overlaps that of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding. The six fictions and two plays provided here illustrate the many kinds of writing she produced, and the ways she treated important themes and issues.