Middle march: AUTHOR: Eliot spent 21 years of her life among people that she later depicted in her novels. She was educated at home and in several schools, and developed a strong evangelical piety. She took up work as subeditor of Westminster Review. In Coventry she met some intellectuals who introduced her to many new religious and political ideas. She died in 1880; she published several novels that gained quite success. YEAR: 1871, published 1874
TOPICS: -Education: The book examines the...
The governess: AUTHOR: -Sarah Fielding (1710-1768) was a British author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding. She was one of the eighteen century's most respected woman writers. -Sarah turned to writing and became the first of a class of professional women authors who sought to make their living through writing. Two of her famous works are "The Adventure of David Sample" and “The Governess”. YEAR of publication: The Governess was published 1749. It is the first full-length novel written...
Mary: A Fiction: AUTHOR -Feminist writer and intellectual Mary Wollstonecraft was born on April 27, 1759, in London. Brought up by an abusive father, she left home and dedicated herself to a life of writing. -When her friend Fanny died in 1785, Wollstonecraft took a position as governess. Three years later, she published her most famous work, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, an educational reform, giving women access to the same educational opportunities as men. -She had two daughters,...
-->CHARACTERS involved in the fragment: -Henry Dashwood: Husband of Mrs. Dashwood, and father of Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret; also has a son, John, from a previous marriage. He dies at the beginning of the novel, leaving his wife and daughters little money and his son his estate. -John Dashwood: Mr. Dashwood's only son, he is selfish and miserly and mostly unpleasant to his half-sisters. Married to Fanny Dashwood, who is even more selfish and mean-spirited than himself. -Mrs. Dashwood: Mother...
Sense and Sensibility:AUTHOR: Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary has gained her historical importance among scholars and critics. YEAR of publication: Published in 1811
MAIN topics in the work: -Money/Inheritance: Laws surrounding inheritance are what put the Dashwood women in limbo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON -Es considerado como la figura indiscutiblemente dominante de la escena cultural del siglo de las luces. Hay muchos principios estéticos de Johnson que responden claramente a la ortodoxia neoclásica. Sin embargo, otros muchos apuntan ya hacia el romanticismo. Pero el contundente rechazo de Johnson a las unidades dramáticas, o su condena de la imitación de los antiguos, unido a la celebridad personal que alcanzó en su época, le han convertido en el eslabón entre el neoclasicismo...
12.ORTEGA Y GASSET -En “La deshumanización del arte”, Ortega intenta definir cuáles son las características fundamentales de la poesía, para entender las primeras obras de la generación del 27, y para entender los dos movimientos de vanguardia de la década de los 20: el creacionismo y el ultraísmo. -En esta obra, se define al nuevo arte como impopular, de minoría; como un arte puro, autónomo, que no tiene ninguna finalidad más allá de sí mismo; un arte que es intrascendente, que...
11.BLAIR -Las Lectures on Rhetoric fueron inicialmente unos apuntes para las clases que Blair impartió en la universidad de Edimburgo, por lo que no tenían ninguna pretensión de originalidad. Menéndez Pelayo le otorga, sin embargo, el mérito de haber sustituido por principios generales de gusto, los preceptos técnicos y rutinarios de los antiguos retóricos. -El primer volumen de esta obra contiene algunas reflexiones sobre el gusto, el genio, la belleza, lo sublime, el lenguaje, y el estilo....
10.JOHNSON -Samuel Johnson es considerado como la figura indiscutiblemente dominante de la escena cultural del siglo de las luces. Hay muchos principios estéticos de Johnson que responden claramente a la ortodoxia neoclásica. Sin embargo, otros muchos apuntan ya hacia el romanticismo. Pero el contundente rechazo de Johnson a las unidades dramáticas, o su condena de la imitación de los antiguos, unido a la celebridad personal que alcanzó en su época, le han convertido en el eslabón entre el...