Pope to Burney, 1714-1779 - Scriblerians to Bluestockings

This essential guide defines literature of the eighteenth century as a literature written and received as public conversation. Moyra Haslett discusses and challenges conventional ways of reading the period, particularly in relation to notions of the public sphere. In her wide-ranging study, Haslett reads key texts - including The Dunciad , Gulliver''s Travels and Pamela - in their literary and cultural contexts, and examines such genres as the periodical, the familiar letter, the verse epistle and the novel as textual equivalents of coterie culture.>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor's Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: CONVERSATIONAL FORMS
Introduction: Defining the Eighteenth Century: Public Sphere Conversations
Literary Communities
Social/Textual Forms
Female Communities
PART II: TEXTUAL CONVERSATIONS
Introduction
The Dunciad: Revisioning Literary History
Gulliver's Travels: Ceding Interpretation
The Political Controversies of Pamela
Conclusion
Chronology
Key Concepts and Contexts
Annotated Bibliography
Bibliography
Index.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

MOYRA HASLETT lectures in the School of English at Queen's University, Belfast, UK.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Moyra Haslett
• Verlag: Macmillan
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 17.07.2003
• EAN: 9780333696118
• ISBN: 978-0-333-69611-8
• Seiten: 302
• Serien: Transitions; Transitions (Palgrave); Transitions
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; B, Literature, Palgrave History Collection, British literature, British and Irish Literature, English literature;fiction;novel