UID:
edocfu_9959240650802883
Format:
1 online resource (445 p.)
ISBN:
1-4426-5082-6
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1-4426-3244-5
Series Statement:
Heritage
Content:
This volume presents an array of studies on many aspects of the eighteenth century: on the novel, history, the history of ideas, drama, poetry and sentimentality. The essays are as diverse as ‘Pope’s Essays on Man and the French Enlightenment’ and ‘Of Silk-worms and Farthingales and the Will of God.’ One group is concerned with the works and ideas of Bayle, Alexander Gerard, Diderot, Fuseli, Hawkesworth and Swift among others.The essays are the work of leading scholars for many disciplines and were presented at the Second David Nichol Smith Seminar; together they reflect some of the liveliest and most up-to-date trends in the present reexamination of the period. The book will be invaluable to all students of the literature, thought, and civilisation of the eighteenth century.
Note:
"Conference papers and proceedings."
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Includes index.
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Pope's Essay on man and the French Enlightenment /
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The hero as clown: Jonathan Wild, Felix Krull, and others /
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Richardson at work: revisions, allusions, and quotations in Clarissa /
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Rhetoric and historiography: Tristam shandy's first nine kalendar months /
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Henry Fielding and the English rococo /
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An early theory of genius: Alexander Gerard's unpublished Aberdeen lectures /
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Diderot and the sublime: the artist as hero /
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Fuseli's translations of Winckelmann: a phase in the rise of British Hellenism, with an aside on William Blake /
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The influence of Pierre Bayle's defence of toleration on the idea of history expressed in the Dictionnaire historique et critique /
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Historical scepticism in Scotland before David Hume /
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Modernisation, mass education, and social mobility in French thought 1750-1789 /
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Hawkesworth's Voyages /
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Of silkworms and farthingales and the will of God /
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The politics of Gulliver's travels /
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Satire and self-expression in Swift's A tale of a tub /
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Swift: some caveats /
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David Garrick, poet of the theatre: a critical survey /
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Cato in tears: stoical guises of the man of feeling /
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Nichol Smith Collections in Edinburgh and Oxford /
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4426-5227-6
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3138/9781442632448
