UID:
edocfu_9958352996102883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781442632448
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.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Preface --
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Notes on Contributors --
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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: Tristram 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An Early Theory of Genius: Alexander Gerard's Unpublished Aberdeen Lectures --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 Boyle'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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Swift and Satirical Typology in A Tale of a Tub --
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The Politics of Gulliver's Travels --
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Satire and Self-Expression in Swift's 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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Index
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442632448
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442632448