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Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives, the first collection of essays on the work of this major British writer, is the indispensable volume for everyone who wants an introduction to Barbauld and to the most current thinking about her. The book will be essential reading for academic students of English literature, 1740 to 1840, and will also attract non-specialists who care about the history of writing by women.
Sommario
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Gillian Dow and Felicity James
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Anna Letitia Barbauld Today
William McCarthy
1"Slip-shod Measure" and "Language of Gods": Barbauld's Stylistic Range
Isobel Grundy
2 Barbauld's Poetic Career in Script and Print
Michelle Levy
3 Anna Letitia Barbauld: A Unitarian Poetics?
Isobel Armstrong
4 Materiality, Affect, Event: Barbauld's Poetics of the Everyday
Sonia Hofkosh
5 "The Things Themselves": Sensory Images in Lessons for Children and Hymns in Prose
Joanna Wharton
6 "Hallowed by the Occasion of the Meeting": Priestley, Meetings, Utility and Address in Barbauld's Work of the 1790s
Stephen Bygrave
7 Lady Defender of the Revolution: Anna Letitia Barbauld among the British Radicals ...
Rachel Trethewey
8 Stoic Patriotism in Barbauld's Political Poems
E. J. Clery
9 From Beauties to Selections: Barbauld's Design for The Spectator
Scott Krawczyk
10 Assuming Authority: Barbauld as Critic
Sabine Volk-Birke
11 Anna Letitia Barbauld, Jane Austen's Unseen Interlocutor
Jocelyn Harris
12 "No Man Could Owe More": John Ruskin's Debt to Anna Barbauld's Books for Children
Naomi Lightman
13 Riddling Sibyl, Uncanny Cassandra: the Recent Critical Reception of Anna Letitia Barbauld
Olivia Murphy
Bibliography
Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld
Secondary Works
About the Contributors
Index
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Edited by William McCarthy and Olivia Murphy - Contributions by Isobel Armstrong; Stephen Bygrave; E. J. Clery; Gillian Dow; Isobel Grundy; Jocelyn Harris; Sonia Hofkosh; Felicity James; Scott Krawczyk; Michelle Levy; Naomi Lightman; Rachel Trethewey; Sab
