Scott Krawczyk, William Mccarthy, Lisa Vargo

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The Collected Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld: Volume 4

Essays and Discourses

Beschreibung

This volume presents together with contextualizing headnotes and annotations all of Anna Letitia Barbauld's known essays, political writings, and discourses. Thirty essays featured in this collection from The Monthly Magazine and The Athenaeum are attributed to Barbauld for the first time.

Autor

Scott Krawczyk is a retired army officer, Professor of English, Associate Chief Academic Officer at the University of the District of Columbia, and part-time lecturer at the Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies. Professor Krawczyk's previous positions include Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Long Island University (Brooklyn) and Head of the Department of English and Philosophy at West Point, where he spearheaded several public humanities programs. His research and publications focus on Anna Barbauld and the Aikin family circle, along with literary and artistic representations of soldiers and veterans during the long eighteenth century. He is the author of Romantic Literary Families (2009). William McCarthy retired as Professor of English at Iowa State University in 1997. He has published articles on Milton and Samuel Johnson but has devoted most of his scholarly effort to British women writers of the eighteenth century. He is recognized today as the foremost authority on the life and work of Anna Letitia Barbauld, whose place in English literature he is re-establishing with the first complete edition of her writings. Lisa Vargo is Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. She researches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, with a focus on Mary Shelley and Anna Barbauld. She has published on Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Robinson, Anna Barbauld, Mary Shelley, Anna Jameson, hypertext editing, gothic fiction, eighteenth-century representations of the moose, Charlotte Smith, and Mathilde Blind. She is the editor of Mary Shelley's Lodore and Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey (Broadview Press). Her edition of Mary Shelley's Spanish and Portuguese Lives appears in Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings from Pickering and Chatto.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 144mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 894g
• ISBN-13: 9780198704782
• ISBN-10: 019870478X
• Artikelnr.: 70179695