Search Results for letters and journals

...Gillian Skinner The idea that Burney features in her own journals and letters as a novelistic heroine is something that readers over the years have noted and attributed variously to straightforward egotism or to a need for compensation. In this article, I read narrative performances Burney produced...

...Susan K. Howard Burney Frances . Court Journals and Letters . ( Oxford : Clarendon , 2011 ). Vol. 1 : ( 1786 ) , ed. Sabor Peter . Pp. xlix + 343. 8 ills. ; vol. 2 : ( 1787 ) , ed. Cooke Stewart . Pp. xxiii + 334. 5 ills . $185 each Copyright 2013 by Duke...

... of “the book” changes in light of historical archival practices and present‐day techniques of digitization and computational literary analysis. The Ballitore Collection consists of roughly 2,500 letters, journals, and notes related to the eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century Irish Quaker community of Ballitore...

...Hilary Havens After her beloved sister Susan died on 6 January 1800, Frances Burney wrote several grieving letters, but her ordinarily voluminous journals and letters were markedly scant during the year 1800. Burney expressed her grief later and elsewhere, particularly in her little-known...

... into the strikingly uniform descriptions found in biographies of Chatham and in parliamentary histories both contemporary and modern. A letter from Walker King to Richard Burke, Jr., written within hours of the event, offers a compelling new perspective on what may have been said on the floor of Lords on 7 April 1778...

... In—ected by the irony that often characterizes Burney’s re—ections on her own authorship, this remark might seem self-deprecating or even dismissive. There is, though, a serious side to the mock-heroic manifesto. Burney was constantly mindful—as is dem- onstrated repeatedly in her letters, journals...

... of happiness. For example, to what extent does epistolar- ity facilitate the inward and subjective turn of modern happiness (since letter writers write in solitude) or undermine it (since letters are always addressed to another). Do the specific literary forms through which self-examination (letter...

..., Forbes includes an elaborate subtitle on the black-bordered page: “A Collection (as exactly made as the Iniquity of the Times would permit) of Speeches, Letters, Journals, &c. relative to the Affairs, but more particularly, the Dangers & Distresses of . . . ” Reflecting the coded nature of much...

... in history and literary studies to particular textual genres, such as memoirs, journals, and personal letters. 1 The category of “life” and the specific nature of its relationship to the material forms of textual and visual literacy that document and channel it warrant further examination. In this essay...

... the eighteenth century, when the author function was evolving for many different reasons: the rise of the novel and of biography; the dramatic increase in letters, journals, and newspapers; and the growing complexities of copyright law. New systems of constraint were emerging in many unexpected places...

... accounts clearly offers one form of intimacy.6 We might too consider what A. B. England has called the “pdfr” style of the letters (“pdfr” is the name Swift uses of himself in the Journal ), the species of apparently undirected nar- rative designed to give the impression that the author is thinking...

...Edward E. Andrews Quaque Philip . The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary ., ed. Vincent Carretta and Ty M. Reese ( Athens : Univ. of Georgia , 2010 ). Pp. xii + 219. 5 ills. $39.95 Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013...

...   – ) , Swift is coming under the scrutiny of revisionists, and Abigail Williams is in the vanguard. Her article revisits Swift’s relationship with Rebecca Din- gley and Esther Johnson, and posits a radically different ménage than has been hitherto imagined. Reexamining the letters of the Journal i t s e...

... Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Commonly Used Abbreviations AJL Additional Journals and Letters of Frances Burney, general ed. Peter Sabor, vols. (Oxford: Oxford Univ., ) CB Mem Memoirs of Dr. Charles...

... gatherings, a fact emphasized in the first sentence of the paragraph: “two rising stars in the blue firmament.” This “fatal paragraph,” as Burney termed it in a letter to her sister Susan of 11 April 1783, weighed heavily on her mind and was frequently mentioned in her journals; nine months after its...

...John Avery Jones; Peter Sabor 20. Journals and Letters , ed. Hemlow 12:785n1. 19. Not all of Macaulay's writings were subject to current publishing agreements, thus leaving scope for further publication in a collection of the author's complete works. The complications of copyright law...

... Post in July 1748, was recently located and reprinted in an article by Keymer.27 Several more have been identified in an article by John Dussinger, who tentatively attributes to Richardson over twenty letters bearing the signature “A. B published in the True Briton, the Daily Journal...

... 1781, from The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, ed. Lars E. Troide, et al., 5 vols. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Univ., 1988– ), 4:315. 9.  See O. H. K. Spate, “Splicing the Log at Kealakekua Bay: James King’s Sleight-of-Hand,” Journal of Pacific History 19 (1984): 117–20; Gavin...

... as it appeared in broadsides and periodicals, from both sides of the Atlantic; Letters she received, as well as copies of the letters she sent; Tributes addressed to her, in manuscript and print, as well as other writing that she collected; Journals, records of her reading (as in commonplace or copy...

... that The Female Spectator fails in its feminist possibilities. Besides being seen as derivative of Addison and Steele’s Spectator, Haywood’s journal is also often seen as failing to advocate the protofeminism of her earlier novels. Bannet reframes both assumptions, arguing that “through letters...