Perhaps the most characteristic of all the disputes of the 17th century was that in which the tendency to continue to develop the Renaissance imitation of the classics came into conflict with the aspirations and discoveries of new thinkers in science and philosophy and new experimenters with literary forms.
Important American novelist and short story writer, author of Moby-Dick. TWAIN, MARK (1835-1910). HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN (1837-1920).
Major late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century novelist and story writer, American-born, who lived and wrote primarily in England, "the writer's writer.".
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Born in Haverhill, Mass., a devout Quaker, social reformer, journalist, poet, and editor, who wrote passionately for abolition. Author of the prose series "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" and the poems "Old Ironsides" and "The Chambered Nautilus." WHEATLEY, PHILLIS.
[T]he texts have been edited with impressive care, and the editors have provided a section on textual notes for each author. The importance of these works has lain in their application of a skeptical, rationalist mode of thought not only to scientific problems but to political and theological controversy and general problems of understanding and perception.
Collected are works by Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Cary, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Finch, Aemelia Lanyer, Katherine Philips, Ester Sowern am, Rachel Speght, and Mary Wroth. This development manifested itself most characteristically in the works of Giambattista Marino in Italy, Luis de Góngora in Spain, and Martin Opitz in Germany. American woman novelist and short story writer from Maine.
JOHNSON, JAMES WELDON (1871-1938). DICKINSON, EMILY (1830-1886).
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Author of adventure novels, best known for The Call of the Wild, associated with San Francisco.
The civil, political, and religious conflicts that dominated the first half of the century were in many ways also the characteristic response of the Counter-Reformation. GILMAN, CHARLOTTE PERKINS (1860-1935).
American novelist and social critic, author of the famous book about the meatpacking industry, The Jungle. In the nineteenth century he was the most famous and financially successful poet of his day. .
CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880). It was during the seventeenth century, however, that women writers ceased to be viewed as odd or remarkable and became accepted as regular and often respected members of the literary world.
American woman feminist and novelist, author of The Yellow Wallpaper. In France the bitter internecine struggle of the Fronde (1648–53) similarly divided the century and preceded possibly the greatest period of all French literature—the age of Molière, Racine, Boileau, and La Fontaine. Unitarian and transcendentalist, associated with Boston. DUNBAR, PAUL LAURENCE (1872-1906).
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Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England brings together in one volume a rich assortment of writing by the women Behn influenced, as well as those who preceded her.
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH (1807-1882). The great question of the century, which confronted serious writers from Donne to Dryden, was Michel de Montaigne’s “What do I know?” or, in expanded terms, the ascertainment of the grounds and relations of knowledge, faith, reason, and authority in religion, metaphysics, ethics, politics, economics, and natural science. Due to the current global health event, shipping of print books may be delayed.
In Germany the early part of the century was dominated by the religious and political conflicts of the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48) and thereafter by the attempts of German princes to emulate the central power and splendour of Louis XIV’s French court at Versailles.
In England a similar tendency was to be found in the work of the Royal Society in encouraging a simple language, a closer, naked, natural way of speaking, suitable for rational discourse, paralleled by the great achievements in prose of John Milton and John Dryden. A towering figure in American poetry, a woman who lived quietly all her life in Amherst, Mass. Many would find it difficult to name a woman writer in England before Jane Austen, even though women were writing as early as the time of Chaucer.
Poet, critic, satirist, essayist, diplomat, journalist, and abolitionist, editor of the Pioneer and first editor of the Atlantic Monthly, author of the political verse-satire The Biglow Papers (1848). The questioning attitude that characterized the period is seen in the works of its great scientists and philosophers: Descartes’s Discourse on Method (1637) and Pascal’s Pensées (written 1657–58) in France; Bacon’s Advancement of Learning (1605) and Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651) in England.
", Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel, University of Michigan Press 839 Greene Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104-3209, Except where otherwise noted, this work is subject to a, Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England, The Swetnam controversy and defense of women. ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY (1832-1888). He was the first cousin of poet Amy Lowell and great-grand-uncle of poet Robert Lowell.
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