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Informationen zum Autor Robert DeMaria Jr is Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English at Vassar College. He is the author of British Literature 1640--1789: An Anthology in Blackwella s Anthologies series and The Life of Samuel Johnson (1993) in Blackwella s Critical Biography series! and of several other books! including Johnsona s Dictionary and the Language of Learning (1986). Klappentext Designed to complement DeMaria's textbook British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology, this critical reader contains seventeen essays by sixteen contemporary literary critics and covers the full range of works printed in the anthology. All the essays were first published within the last ten years, and they represent current thinking about the literature in this chronological span. The Reader will help students and teachers of the period find new approaches to central canonical works, but it also provides introductions to several of the less well known writers included in DeMaria's anthology. Most of the essays in the reader articulate readings of important individual works while situating those works in historical contexts that provide background for understanding other writings of the period. Many of the essays also relate the contexts under study to larger historical or cultural movements. For example, David Norbrook's essay provides a historically - based reading of Milton's Areopagitica while making a contribution to the history of censorship and the evolution of the public sphere in England. Similarly, Catherine Gallagher's essay on Aphra Behn's Oroonoko explains how blackness of the novella's main character functions in literary terms while providing background. Other essays throw light on such topics as the history of readers and authors; social definitions of sexuality; religious thought; nationhood; and the relations between public politics and the private, gendered self. The critics selected for the reader are all currently very active, and many are young scholars whose work has begun to appear in only the last five or ten years: Sharon Achinstein, Helen Deutsch, George Haggerty, Adam Potkay, Carol Barash, D. N. DeLuna, and Frans De Bruyn join more senior established scholars such as Ruth Perry, Terry Castle, David Perkins, Howard Weinbrot, Claude Rawson, and Thomas Greene. Zusammenfassung Designed to complement DeMariaa s textbook British Literature 1640--1789: An Anthology ! this critical reader contains seventeen essays by sixteen contemporary literary critics and covers the full range of works printed in the anthology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements. A Note on the Form of Reference. 1. Areopagitica! Censorship! and the Early Modern Public Sphere: David Norbrook. 2. From a Milton and the Fit Readera ! Sharon Achinstein. 3. a The Balance of Power in Marvella s "Horatian Ode"a : Thomas M. Greene. 4. a Oroonokoa s Blacknessa : Catherine Gallagher. 5. a Lordly Accents: Rochestera s Satirea (1994): Claude Rawson. 6. From Brittaniaa s Issue! a Drydena s "Anne Killigrew": Towards a New Pindaric Political Ode": Howard Weinbrot. 7. Ironic Monologue and a Scandalous Ambro--dexter Conformitya " in Defoea s The Shortest Way with the Dissenters": D. N. DeLuna. 8. a Strange Complicities: Atheism and Conspiracy in A Tale of a Tuba : Roger Lund. 9. From Resemblance and Disgrace! a The Rape of the Lock as Miniature Epica : Helen Deutsch. 10. From English Womena s Poetry 1649--1714! a Anne Finch: Gender! Politics! and Myths of the Selfa : Carol Barash. 11. a The Spirit of Ending in Johnson and Humea : Adam Potkay. 12. From The Muses of Resistance! a An English Sappho Brilliant! Young and Dead?a Mary Leapor Laughs at the Fathersa : Donna Landry. 13. O Lachrymarum Fons: Thomas Graya s Sensibility: George E. Haggerty. 14. a The Culture of Travesty: Sexuality and Masquerade in Eighteenth--Century Englanda : Terry Castle...
