1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996384679103316

Autore

Orford Edward Russell, Earl of, <1653-1727.>

Titolo

A copy of Admiral Russel's letter to the Earl of Nottingham [[electronic resource] ] : Published by authority

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Glasgow], : Printed at Edinburgh, and re-printed at Glasgow, 1692

Descrizione fisica

1 sheet ([1] p.)

Soggetti

Grand Alliance, War of the, 1689-1697

Great Britain History William and Mary, 1689-1702 Early works to 1800

Great Britain History, Naval Stuarts, 1603-1714 Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Dated: May 20. 1692. Cape-Barfleur, S.W. distance seven leagues.

Includes: Some particulars of another letter from the fleet.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248126203316

Autore

Fulford Tim <1962->

Titolo

Landscape, liberty, and authority : poetry, criticism, and politics from Thomson to Wordsworth / / Tim Fulford [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1996

ISBN

1-139-08563-8

9780521024727

0-511-82143-3

0-511-51900-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; ; 30

Disciplina

821/.50936

Soggetti

English poetry - 18th century - History and criticism

Landscapes in literature

Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Political poetry, English - History and criticism

Description (Rhetoric) - History - 18th century

Picturesque, The, in literature

Authority in literature

Liberty in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Thomson and Cowper: the 'stubborn Country tam'd'? -- 2. Johnson: the usurpations of virility -- 3. Unreliable authorities? Squires, tourists and the picturesque -- 4. Wordsworth: the politics of landscape -- 5. Coleridge: fields of liberty.

Sommario/riassunto

Eighteenth-century landscape description formed part of a larger debate over the nature of liberty and authority which was vital to a Britain newly defining its nationhood in a period of growing imperial power and rapid economic change. Tim Fulford examines landscape description in the writings of Thomson, Cowper, Johnson, Gilpin, Repton, Wordsworth, Coleridge and others, revealing tensions that arose as writers struggled for authority over the public sphere and



sought to redefine the nature of that authority. In his investigation of poetry and political and aesthetic writing, Dr Fulford throws light on the legacy of Commonwealth and Country-party ideas of liberty. Also discussed are the significance of the Miltonic sublime, the politics of the picturesque and the post-colonial encounter of the Scottish tour. Dr Fulford goes on to show how the early radicalism and later conservatism of Wordsworth and Coleridge were shaped, in part, by eighteenth-century literary political and literary authorities. His study offers an understanding of literary and political influence that cuts across conventional periodization, finding new links between the early eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.