Richard Bentley - Poetry and Enlightenment

Informationen zum Autor Kristine Louise Haugen is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the California Institute of Technology. Klappentext What warranted the skewering of Richard Bentley (whom Rhodri Lewis called ¿perhaps the most notable¿and notorious¿scholar ever to have English as a mother tongue¿) by two of the literary giants of his day? Kristine Haugen offers a fascinating portrait of Europe¿s most infamous classical scholar and the intellectual turmoil he set in motion. Zusammenfassung What warranted the skewering of Richard Bentley (whom Rhodri Lewis called “perhaps the most notable—and notorious—scholar ever to have English as a mother tongue”) by two of the literary giants of his day? Kristine Haugen offers a fascinating portrait of Europe’s most infamous classical scholar and the intellectual turmoil he set in motion.

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• Authors: Kristine Louise Haugen, KristineLouise Haugen
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2011
• EAN: 9780674058712
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05871-2
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biology, life sciences, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval