1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464167103321

Autore

Halpern Faye

Titolo

Sentimental readers : the rise, fall, and revival of a disparaged rhetoric / / Faye Halpern

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City : , : University of Iowa Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-60938-210-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

809

809.93353

809/.93353

Soggetti

Literature

Sentimentalism in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The how of sentimentality -- Edward Tyrrel channing and the matter of disingenuous eloquence -- Why we should trust Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The art of appearances in Louisa May Alcott -- Henry Ward Beecher and the fall of the sentimental orator -- In defense of reading badly -- A critical problem with being a good reader of sentimental rhetoric.

Sommario/riassunto

How could novels like Uncle Tom's Cabin change the hearts and minds of thousands of mid-nineteenth-century readers, yet make so many modern readers cringe at their over-the-top, tear-filled scenes? Sentimental Readers explains why sentimental rhetoric was so compelling to readers of that earlier era, why its popularity waned in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and why today it is generally characterized as overly emotional and artificial. But author Faye Halpern also does more: she demonstrates that this now despised rhetoric remains relevant to contemporary writing teachers and lite



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996390405703316

Autore

Coffin Edward <1571-1626.>

Titolo

A refutation of M. Ioseph Hall his apologeticall discourse, for the marriage of ecclesiasticall persons [[electronic resource] ] : directed vnto M. Iohn VVhiting. In which is demonstrated the marriages of bishops, priests &c. to want all warrant of Scriptures or antiquity: and the freedome for such marriages, so often in the sayd discourse vrged, mentioned, and challenged to be a meere fiction. Written at the request of an English Protestant, by C.E. a Catholike priest

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Saint-Omer, : Printed at the English College press] Permissu superiorum, M.DC.XIX. [1619]

Descrizione fisica

[10], 376, [2] p

Soggetti

Celibacy - Christianity

Protestantism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

C.E. = Edward Coffin.

A reply to decade 2, epistle 3 of "Epistles the first volume" by Joseph Hall.

Identification of printer and place of publication from STC.

With a final errata leaf.

Running title reads: An answere to M. Halles apology, for the marriage of priests.

Identified as STC 5475a on UMI microfilm.

Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014



3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00193214

Autore

FREDRO, Aleksander

Titolo

Sluby panienskie : tekst uzupelniony wedlug manuskryptu z roku 1833, odnalezionego w bibliotece warszawskich teatrów miejskich / Aleksander Fredro ; wydal i opracowal Jan Lorentowicz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Warszawa, : Ksiegarnia F. Hoesicka, 1928. -XV, 206 p., : tav. ; 19 cm.

Disciplina

891.85

Lingua di pubblicazione

Polacco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia