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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790721103321

Autore

McCarthy William

Titolo

Anna Letitia Barbauld : new perspectives / / William McCarthy and Olivia Murphy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Bucknell University Press : , : Copublished with Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61148-712-9

1-61148-550-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 pages) : illustrations, chart

Collana

Transits : Literature, thought & Culture

Altri autori (Persone)

MurphyOlivia

Disciplina

821.6

Soggetti

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Anna Letitia Barbauld today -- "Slip-shod measure" and "Language of Gods": Barbauld's stylistic range -- Barbauld's poetic career in script and print -- Anna Letitia Barbauld: a unitarian poetics? -- Materiality, affect, event: Barbauld's poetics of the everyday -- "The things themselves": sensible images in Lessons for children and hymns in prose -- "Hallowed by the occasion of the meeting": utility, address and meetings in Barbauld's work of the 1790s -- Lady defender of the revolution: Barbauld among the British radicals -- Stoic patriotism in Barbauld's political poems -- From Beauties to Selections: Barbauld's design for The spectator -- Assuming authority: Barbauld as critic -- Anna Letitia Barbauld, Jane Austen's unseen interlocutor -- "No man could owe more": John Ruskin's debt to Anna Barbauld's books for children -- Riddling Sibyl, uncanny Cassandra: Barbauld's recent critical reception.