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The burdens of perfection [[electronic resource] ] : on ethics and reading in nineteenth-century British literature / / Andrew H. Miller
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->  
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
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->  
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
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->  
Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008
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Didactic literature in England 1500-1800 : expertise constructed / / edited by Natasha Glaisyer, Sara Pennell
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
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
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
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  
Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2004
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Excess and the mean in early modern English literature [[electronic resource] /] / Joshua Scodel
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->  
Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2002
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Excess and the mean in early modern English literature [[electronic resource] /] / Joshua Scodel
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->  
Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2002
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Excess and the mean in early modern English literature [[electronic resource] /] / Joshua Scodel
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->  
Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2002
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