Abigail Williams è una professoressa di Studi del Settecento. La sua ricerca si concentra sui testi e sui contesti del periodo, esplorando come la letteratura modella la nostra comprensione del mondo e come tale comprensione cambia nel tempo. Nella sua analisi critica, Williams si concentra sui modi complessi in cui le questioni sociali, culturali e politiche sono incorporate nelle opere letterarie e su come questi temi continuano a risuonare ancora oggi.
A mother's recipe is a powerful connection to fond and comforting times. Whether it was a favourite cake requested on birthdays, a Christmas pudding shared with the whole family, or a delicious crumble after a Sunday roast. Signature recipes do not always come straight out of a cookbook, but are sometimes scribbled on a piece of paper or written at the corner of a page. Each recipe in this book is from a mother who is dearly missed by her children, and they would now like to share the cherished recipe with you. A donation from each cookbook will be given to Breast Cancer Care - a support charity dedicated to helping women and families, including our own, when they need it most.
How eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation—and how this still shapes the way we read Reading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what has been everywhere evident but rarely talked about: the misunderstanding, muddle and confusion of readers of the past when they first met the uniquely elusive writings of the period. Abigail Williams uses the marginal marks and jottings of these readers to show that flawed interpretation has its own history—and its own important role to play—in understanding how, why and what we read. Focussing on the first half of the eighteenth century, the golden age of satire, Reading It Wrong tells how a combination of changing readerships and fantastically tricky literature created the perfect grounds for puzzlement and partial comprehension. Through the lens of a history of imperfect reading, we see that many of the period’s major works—by writers including Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, Mary Wortley Montagu, Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift—both generated and depended upon widespread misreading. Being foxed by a satire, coded fiction or allegory was, like Wordle or the cryptic crossword, a form of entertainment, and perhaps a group sport. Rather than worrying that we don’t have all the answers, we should instead recognize the cultural importance of not knowing.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Home Improvements -- 1. How to Read -- 2. Reading and Sociability -- 3. Using Books -- 4. Access to Reading -- 5. Verse at Home -- 6. Drama and Recital -- 7. Fictional Worlds -- 8. Piety and Knowledge -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
