Eighteenth-century English Literature
Author | : James Lowry Clifford |
Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Lowry Clifford |
Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Womersley |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780874138962 |
In the preface to his edition of Shakespeare, Alexander Pope noted that his age was one of Parties, both in Wit and State. Much scholarship has been devoted to the complexities of the political parties of the eighteenth century, but there has been a surprising reluctance to explore what Pope implied were the corollaries of those parties, namely, parties in literature. The essays collected here explore the literary culture that arose from and supported what Pitt the Elder referred to as the great spirit of Whiggism that animated English politics during the eighteenth century. From the prehistory of Whiggism in the court of Charles II to the fractures opened up within it by the French Revolution in the 1790s, the interactions between Whiggish politics and literature are sampled and described in groundbreaking essays that range widely across the fields of eighteenth-century political prose, poetry, and the novel.
Author | : Louis A. Landa |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2017-03-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 140088635X |
This volume contains a selection of the major essays written over a period of three decades by a distinguished scholar of eighteenth-century English literature. In each essay, Professor Landa attempts to show how cultural and intellectual assumptions and presuppositions of the age have been assimilated into the literary works. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Scott Elledge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
A selection of representative writings in literary criticism and aesthetics by 40 critics.
Author | : Dennis Todd |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780874137590 |
This collection of essays, including contributions by Paula Backscheider, Martin C. Battestin, and Patricia Meyer Spacks- examines the relationship between history, literary forms, and the cultural contexts of British literature from the late seventeenth to the late eighteenth century. Topics include print culture and the works of Mary, Lady Chudleigh; the politics of early amatory fiction; Susanna Centlivre's use of plot; novels by women between 1760 and 1788; and the connection between gender and narrative form in the criminal biographies of the 1770s.
Author | : Kenneth MacLean |
Publisher | : Facsimiles-Garl |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Richetti |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2017-10-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1405135026 |
A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is a lively exploration of one of the most diverse and innovative periods in literary history. Capturing the richness and excitement of the era, this book provides extensive coverage of major authors, poets, dramatists, and journalists of the period, such as Dryden, Pope and Swift, while also exploring the works of important writers who have received less attention by modern scholars, such as Matthew Prior and Charles Churchill. Uniquely, the book also discusses noncanonical, working-class writers and demotic works of the era. During the eighteenth-century, Britain experienced vast social, political, economic, and existential changes, greatly influencing the literary world. The major forms of verse, poetry, fiction and non-fiction, experimental works, drama, and political prose from writers such as Montagu, Finch, Johnson, Goldsmith and Cowper, are discussed here in relation to their historical context. A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is essential reading for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of English literature. Topics covered include: Verse in the early 18th century, from Pope, Gay, and Swift to Addison, Defoe, Montagu, and Finch Poetry from the mid- to late-century, highlighting the works of Johnson, Gray, Collins, Smart, Goldsmith, and Cowper among others, as well as women and working-class poets Prose Fiction in the early and 18th century, including Behn, Haywood, Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett The novel past mid-century, including experimental works by Johnson, Sterne, Mackenzie, Walpole, Goldsmith, and Burney Non-fiction prose, including political and polemical prose 18th century drama
Author | : W. B. Carnochan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 1977-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780520031883 |