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A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century Cynthia Wall (University of Virginia)

A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century By Cynthia Wall (University of Virginia)

A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century by Cynthia Wall (University of Virginia)

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Presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature. This book presents debates on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, and historical versus literary perceptions of life on London streets.

A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century Summary

A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century by Cynthia Wall (University of Virginia)

This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature.

  • Contributes to current debates in the field on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, and historical versus literary perceptions of life on London streets.
  • Searches out connections between the remarkable number of new genres that appeared in the eighteenth century.
  • Crosses conventional disciplinary lines.
  • Demonstrates that philosophy, history, politics and social theory both influence and are influenced by literature.

About Cynthia Wall (University of Virginia)

Cynthia Wall is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London (1998) and an editor of Pope and Defoe.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations.

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction: Cynthia Wall.

1. Trade, travel and empire: Knowing other places 1660-1800: Miles Ogborn (University of London) and Charles W. J. Withers (University of Edinburgh).

2. Scientific investigations: Paradise regained: the rhetoric of English experimentalism: Joanna Picciotto (Princeton University).

3. Public and private: The myth of the bourgeois public sphere: J. A. Downie (University of London).

4. The Streets: Literary beggars and the reality of street life in eighteenth-century London: Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire).

5. The Sewers: Ordure, Effluence and Excess in the Eighteenth Century: Sophie Gee (Princeton University).

6. The Novel: Novels in the world of moving goods: Deidre Shauna Lynch (Indiana University).

7. The Gothic: Moving in the world of novels: Mark Blackwell (University of Hartford).

8. Gendering Texts: 'The Abuse of Title Pages': men writing as women: Susan Staves (Brandeis University).

9. Drama: Dramatic changes: John O'Brien (University of Virginia).

10. Poetry: Poetry of occasions: J. Paul Hunter (University of Virginia).

11. Forms of Sublimity: The Garden, the Georgic, the Nation: Rachel Crawford (University of San Francisco).

12. Criticism: Literary history and literary historicism: Mark Salber Phillips (Carleton University).

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NLS9781405101189
9781405101189
1405101180
A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century by Cynthia Wall (University of Virginia)
Cynthia Wall (University of Virginia)
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2004-12-02
296
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