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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Barbauld"”.
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Finch, Burney, Barbauld and the Brontes: feminine identity
<p>Modern readers of literature have occasionally noticed similarities in the themes and imagery of British women writers. These similarities have been argued as springing from either a shared cultural heritage or a gender-specific biological experience. Proponents of the 'nurture' camp suggest …
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Lessons After Barbauld: The Conversational Primer in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain
This thesis explores how Anna Letitia Barbauld’s book Lessons for Children Aged Two to Three Years (1778) facilitated the development of the conversational primer. This genre, which has not yet been theorised, may be identified by the way the texts present themselves as verisimilar and replicable …
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Re-working Novelistic Sentiment: Barbauld, Smith, Edgeworth, and the Politics of Children's Fiction
Despite the recognized importance of Anna Letitia Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, and Charlotte Smith as commentators on 1790s radicalism, pedagogy, and novel conventions, their writings for children and for adults tend to be studied separately. Indeed, despite each writer's familiarity with the others' …
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Sin, History, and Liberty: Milton, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and Anne Grant in the Eighteen Hundreds
… examines the relationship between Anna Letitia Barbauld's Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem and Anne Grant's Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen, A Poem as well as Milton's presence in both texts. I argue that Grant does not merely offer a conservative counter to Barbauld's liberal condemnation of …
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Unsex'd Women: The Politics of Transgression in the Poetry of Anna Laeticia Barbauld and Charlotte Smith.
… It takes two women poets of the period, Anna Barbauld and Charlotte Smith and focuses on their much neglected political poetry, in order to demonstrate the ways in which these women writers themselves challenged the expectations about the poetry women should write and transgressed into the …
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<em>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman:</em> A Reflection of the Tension Between Conformity and Rebellion in the Life and Times of Mary Wollstonecraft
… figures of her time-specifically Anna Letitia Barbauld. Although Barbauld differed from Wollstonecraft in her ideas relating to women and their role in society as well as their rights to formal education, she was in fact inspired by the fervor with which Mary Wollstonecraft fought to bring her …
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Visionary Nonconformity: Miltonic Resonances and the Poetics of Religious Dissent in the Long Eighteenth Century
… Barker, Elizabeth Rowe, Mary Leapor, and Anna Barbauld are considered in an intertextual and cultural framework to suggest that the visionary mode, especially as practiced by these women poets, supplements political agency and elides barriers between the public and the private spheres. The …
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"""The face of things"": the posthumanist imagination in eighteenth-century Britain"
… British writers like Defoe, Swift, and Barbauld to question anthropocentric and Eurocentric ideas and practices, by collapsing key conceptual distinctions between the human and the nonhuman, the British and their colonial others. Building on the new-materialist understanding that …
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Writing Resistance: The Politics and Poetics of British Women's Antislavery Verse, 1785--1865
… and neoclassical outrage of Anna Letitia Barbauld and Helen Maria Williams. In Chapter Three, I present a comparative study of a slave woman and her white abolitionist predecessors. This discussion juxtaposes the simplicity of Mary Prince's prose with the elevated verse of writers such as …