The burdens of perfection [[electronic resource] ] : on ethics and reading in nineteenth-century British literature / / Andrew H. Miller |
Autore | Miller Andrew H. <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/384 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Didactic literature, English - History and criticism Perfection in literature Ethics in literature Literature and morals Books and reading - Moral and ethical aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8014-6083-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Resisting, Conspiring, Completing: An Introduction -- Part I. The Narrative of Improvement -- 1. Skepticism and Perfectionism I: Mechanization and Desire -- 2. Skepticism and Perfectionism II: Weakness of Will -- Interlude: Critical Free Indirect Discourse -- 3. Reading Thoughts: Casuistry and Transfiguration -- Part II. The Moral Psychology of Improvement -- 4. Perfectly Helpless -- 5. Responsiveness, Knowingness, and John Henry Newman -- 6. The Knowledge of Shame -- 7. On Lives Unled -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456737403321 |
Miller Andrew H. <1964->
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Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008 | ||
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The burdens of perfection [[electronic resource] ] : on ethics and reading in nineteenth-century British literature / / Andrew H. Miller |
Autore | Miller Andrew H. <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/384 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Didactic literature, English - History and criticism Perfection in literature Ethics in literature Literature and morals Books and reading - Moral and ethical aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN | 0-8014-6083-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Resisting, Conspiring, Completing: An Introduction -- Part I. The Narrative of Improvement -- 1. Skepticism and Perfectionism I: Mechanization and Desire -- 2. Skepticism and Perfectionism II: Weakness of Will -- Interlude: Critical Free Indirect Discourse -- 3. Reading Thoughts: Casuistry and Transfiguration -- Part II. The Moral Psychology of Improvement -- 4. Perfectly Helpless -- 5. Responsiveness, Knowingness, and John Henry Newman -- 6. The Knowledge of Shame -- 7. On Lives Unled -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781210803321 |
Miller Andrew H. <1964->
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Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008 | ||
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The burdens of perfection [[electronic resource] ] : on ethics and reading in nineteenth-century British literature / / Andrew H. Miller |
Autore | Miller Andrew H. <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/384 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Didactic literature, English - History and criticism Perfection in literature Ethics in literature Literature and morals Books and reading - Moral and ethical aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN | 0-8014-6083-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Resisting, Conspiring, Completing: An Introduction -- Part I. The Narrative of Improvement -- 1. Skepticism and Perfectionism I: Mechanization and Desire -- 2. Skepticism and Perfectionism II: Weakness of Will -- Interlude: Critical Free Indirect Discourse -- 3. Reading Thoughts: Casuistry and Transfiguration -- Part II. The Moral Psychology of Improvement -- 4. Perfectly Helpless -- 5. Responsiveness, Knowingness, and John Henry Newman -- 6. The Knowledge of Shame -- 7. On Lives Unled -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817860203321 |
Miller Andrew H. <1964->
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Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008 | ||
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Didactic literature in England 1500-1800 : expertise constructed / / edited by Natasha Glaisyer, Sara Pennell |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (226 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 820.9 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
GlaisyerNatasha <1972->
PennellSara |
Soggetto topico |
Didactic literature, English - History and criticism
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-138-27346-5
1-315-25786-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction / Natasha Glaisyer and Sara Pennell -- 2. The Bible and didactic literature in early modern England / Scott Mandelbrote -- 3. Didactic sources of musical learning in early modern England / Susan Forscher Weiss -- 4. Seventeenth-century didactic readers, their literature, and ours / Randall Ingram -- 5. Polite society and perceptions of the sun and the moon in the Athenian Mercury and the British Apollo, 1691-1711 / Anna Marie E. Roos -- 6. Frenc conversation or 'glittering gibberish'? Learning French in eighteenth-century England / Michele Cohen -- 7. The gardener and the book / Rebecca Bushnell -- 8. Deformity's filthy fingers : cosmetics and the plague in Artificiall embellishments, or Arts best directions how to preserve beauty or procure it (Oxford, 1665) / Christoph Heyl -- 9. Richardson's barometer : colonial representation in grammatical texts / Richard Steadman-Jones -- 10. Containing the marvellous : instructions to buyers and sellers / Phyllis Whitman Hunter. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910466324903321 |
Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
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Didactic literature in England 1500-1800 : expertise constructed / / edited by Natasha Glaisyer, Sara Pennell |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (226 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 820.9 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
GlaisyerNatasha <1972->
PennellSara |
Soggetto topico |
Didactic literature, English - History and criticism
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-138-27346-5
1-315-25786-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction / Natasha Glaisyer and Sara Pennell -- 2. The Bible and didactic literature in early modern England / Scott Mandelbrote -- 3. Didactic sources of musical learning in early modern England / Susan Forscher Weiss -- 4. Seventeenth-century didactic readers, their literature, and ours / Randall Ingram -- 5. Polite society and perceptions of the sun and the moon in the Athenian Mercury and the British Apollo, 1691-1711 / Anna Marie E. Roos -- 6. Frenc conversation or 'glittering gibberish'? Learning French in eighteenth-century England / Michele Cohen -- 7. The gardener and the book / Rebecca Bushnell -- 8. Deformity's filthy fingers : cosmetics and the plague in Artificiall embellishments, or Arts best directions how to preserve beauty or procure it (Oxford, 1665) / Christoph Heyl -- 9. Richardson's barometer : colonial representation in grammatical texts / Richard Steadman-Jones -- 10. Containing the marvellous : instructions to buyers and sellers / Phyllis Whitman Hunter. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792529503321 |
Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
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Didactic literature in England 1500-1800 : expertise constructed / / edited by Natasha Glaisyer, Sara Pennell |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (226 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 820.9 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
GlaisyerNatasha <1972->
PennellSara |
Soggetto topico |
Didactic literature, English - History and criticism
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-138-27346-5
1-315-25786-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction / Natasha Glaisyer and Sara Pennell -- 2. The Bible and didactic literature in early modern England / Scott Mandelbrote -- 3. Didactic sources of musical learning in early modern England / Susan Forscher Weiss -- 4. Seventeenth-century didactic readers, their literature, and ours / Randall Ingram -- 5. Polite society and perceptions of the sun and the moon in the Athenian Mercury and the British Apollo, 1691-1711 / Anna Marie E. Roos -- 6. Frenc conversation or 'glittering gibberish'? Learning French in eighteenth-century England / Michele Cohen -- 7. The gardener and the book / Rebecca Bushnell -- 8. Deformity's filthy fingers : cosmetics and the plague in Artificiall embellishments, or Arts best directions how to preserve beauty or procure it (Oxford, 1665) / Christoph Heyl -- 9. Richardson's barometer : colonial representation in grammatical texts / Richard Steadman-Jones -- 10. Containing the marvellous : instructions to buyers and sellers / Phyllis Whitman Hunter. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814299303321 |
Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
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Educating the Proper Woman Reader : Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation / / Jennifer Phegley |
Autore | Phegley Jennifer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 233 p. :) : ill. ; |
Disciplina | 820.9/9287/09034 |
Soggetto topico |
Women in literature
Didactic literature, English - History and criticism American literature - 19th century - History and criticism Literature publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century Periodicals - Publishing - United States - History - 19th century Periodicals - Publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century Women and literature - English-speaking countries - History - 19th century Middle class women - Books and reading - English-speaking countries - History - 19th century English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8142-7309-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The scene of women's reading : mid-nineteenth century culture, professional critics, and family literary magazines -- Piracy and the patriotic woman reader : making British literature American in Harper's new monthly magazine, 1850-1855 -- The education and professionalization of the woman reader : consolidating middleclass power in the Cornhill magazine, 1860-1864 -- (Im)proper reading for women : Belgravia magazine and the defense of the sensation novel, 1866-1871 -- Victoria's secret : the woman's movement from reader to writer/critic, 1863-1868. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910552780503321 |
Phegley Jennifer
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Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2004 | ||
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Excess and the mean in early modern English literature [[electronic resource] /] / Joshua Scodel |
Autore | Scodel Joshua <1958-> |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (375 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/353 |
Collana | Literature in history |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism
Moderation in literature Literature and society - England - History - 16th century Literature and society - England - History - 17th century Didactic literature, English - History and criticism English literature - Classical influences Temperance in literature Polarity in literature Ethics in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-15864-3
9786612158643 1-4008-2493-1 1-4008-1463-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Two early modern revisions of the mean -- pt. 2. means and extremes in early modern Georgic -- pt. 3. Erotic excess and early modern social conflicts -- pt. 4. Moderation and excess in the seventeenth-century symposiastic lyric -- pt. 5. Reimagining moderation: the Miltonic example. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454793103321 |
Scodel Joshua <1958->
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2002 | ||
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Excess and the mean in early modern English literature [[electronic resource] /] / Joshua Scodel |
Autore | Scodel Joshua <1958-> |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (375 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/353 |
Collana | Literature in history |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism
Moderation in literature Literature and society - England - History - 16th century Literature and society - England - History - 17th century Didactic literature, English - History and criticism English literature - Classical influences Temperance in literature Polarity in literature Ethics in literature |
ISBN |
1-282-15864-3
9786612158643 1-4008-2493-1 1-4008-1463-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Two early modern revisions of the mean -- pt. 2. means and extremes in early modern Georgic -- pt. 3. Erotic excess and early modern social conflicts -- pt. 4. Moderation and excess in the seventeenth-century symposiastic lyric -- pt. 5. Reimagining moderation: the Miltonic example. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779902203321 |
Scodel Joshua <1958->
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2002 | ||
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Excess and the mean in early modern English literature [[electronic resource] /] / Joshua Scodel |
Autore | Scodel Joshua <1958-> |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (375 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/353 |
Collana | Literature in history |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism
Moderation in literature Literature and society - England - History - 16th century Literature and society - England - History - 17th century Didactic literature, English - History and criticism English literature - Classical influences Temperance in literature Polarity in literature Ethics in literature |
ISBN |
1-282-15864-3
9786612158643 1-4008-2493-1 1-4008-1463-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Two early modern revisions of the mean -- pt. 2. means and extremes in early modern Georgic -- pt. 3. Erotic excess and early modern social conflicts -- pt. 4. Moderation and excess in the seventeenth-century symposiastic lyric -- pt. 5. Reimagining moderation: the Miltonic example. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814504103321 |
Scodel Joshua <1958->
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