Eighteenth-century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip HarthHoward D. Weinbrot, Peter J. Schakel, Stephen E. Karian Eighteenth-Century Contexts offers a lively array of essays that consider literary, intellectual, political, theological, and cultural aspects of the years 1650-1800, in the British Isles and Europe. At the center of the book is Jonathan Swift; several essays delve into his poetry, his similarities to Bernard Mandeville, his response to Anthony Collins's Discourse of Free-Thinking, and the relationship between his Gulliver's Travels and Thomas More's Utopia. Other essays discuss Alexander Pope, eighteenth-century music and poetry, William Congreve, James Boswell, Samuel Richardson, and women's novels of the eighteenth century. |
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Contents
16131798 | 3 |
The fashionable cutt of the town and William | 26 |
A Preface to Anglican Rationalism | 44 |
Mandeville and Swift | 60 |
What Swift Did to Collinss Discourse of FreeThinking | 81 |
Mores Utopia and Swifts Gullivers | 96 |
Innovation and Complication | 114 |
Anonymity and Authority in the Poetry of Jonathan Swift | 133 |
John Barrett The Whimsical Medley and Swifts Poems | 147 |
The Editing of Popes Dunciad from Scriblerus to | 171 |
What Must the World Think of Me? Pope Madame | 183 |
Early Women Novelists the Canon and the History | 232 |
The Shaping of Conversation | 247 |
On Rerouting the History of British Literary Theory | 265 |
Contributors | 289 |
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| Title | Eighteenth-century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth |
| Editors | Howard D. Weinbrot, Peter J. Schakel, Stephen E. Karian |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0299174808, 9780299174804 |
| Length | 305 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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