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.>

Product details

• Authors: Moyra Haslett
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2003
• EAN: 9780333696118
• ISBN: 978-0-333-69611-8
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Transitions; Transitions (Palgrave); Transitions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Palgrave History Collection, British literature, British and Irish Literature, English literature;fiction;novel