Fr. 351.90

Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780

Inglese · Copertina rigida

Spedizione di solito entro 1 a 3 settimane (non disponibile a breve termine)

Descrizione

Ulteriori informazioni

Informationen zum Autor John Richetti is A. M. Rosenthal Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Klappentext Offering essays on the range of English literature produced in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries! this collection presents new historical perspectives and critical approaches to the classic authors and texts of the period. Neglected authors and themes! as well as new and emerging genres within the expanding print market! are discussed in their social and historical contexts. The volume also includes a complete chronology and bibliographies. Zusammenfassung Now available in paperback, this volume offers readers discussions of the entire range of literary expression from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century. In essays by thirty distinguished scholars, recent historical perspectives and new critical approaches are brought to bear on classic authors and texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction John Richetti; Part I. Literary Production and Dissemination: Changing Audiences and Emerging Media: 1. Publishing and bookselling, 1660-1780 James Raven; 2. The social world of authorship, 1660-1714 Dustin Griffin; 3. Popular entertainment and instruction, literary and dramatic: chapbooks, advice books, almanacs, ballads, farces, pantomimes, prints and shows Lance Bertelsen; 4. Novels on the market William B. Warner; Part II. Literary Genres: Adaptation and Reformation: 5. Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama Harold Love; 6. Dryden and the poetic career Steven Zwicker; 7. Political, satirical, didactic and lyric poetry (I): from the Restoration to the death of Pope J. Paul Hunter; 8. Eighteenth-century women poets Paula Backscheider; 9. Systems satire: Swift.com Michael Seidel; 10. Persistence, adaptations and transformations in pastoral and georgic poetry David Fairer; 11. Political, satirical, didactic and lyric poetry (II): after Pope John Sitter; 12. Drama and theatre in the mid- and later eighteenth century Robert D. Hume; 13. Scottish poetry and regional literary expression Fiona Stafford; Part III. Literature and Intellectual Life: The Production and Transmission of Culture: 14. History and literature, 1660-1780 Karen O'Brien; 15. A preliminary discourse on philosophy and literature Michael Prince; 16. British and European literature and thought Jeffrey Barnouw; 17. Religion and literature Isabel Rivers; 18. Literary criticism and the rise of national literary history Lawrence Lipking; 19. Augustan England and British America William C. Dowling; Part IV. Literature and Social and Institutional Change: 20. The eighteenth-century periodical essay Robert De Maria; 21. Public opinion and the political pamphlet R. A. Downie; 22. Sentimental fiction: ethics, social critique and philanthropy Thomas Keymer; 23. Folklore, antiquarianism, scholarship and high literary culture Robert Folkenflik; Part V. Literary Genres: Transformation and New Forms of Expressiveness: 24. Personal letters Patricia Spacks; 25. Diary and autobiography Stuart Sherman; 26. The Gothic novel Terry Castle; 27. Eighteenth-century travel literature Carole Fabricant; 28. Women novelists, 1740s-1780s Felicity Nussbaum; 29. Burke and the uses of eloquence: political prose in the 1770s and 1780s Frans de Bruyn; Part VI. Conclusion: 30. More is different: literary change in the mid- and late eighteenth century Clifford Siskin; Chronology; Biography....

Recensioni dei clienti

Per questo articolo non c'è ancora nessuna recensione. Scrivi la prima recensione e aiuta gli altri utenti a scegliere.

Scrivi una recensione

Top o flop? Scrivi la tua recensione.

Per i messaggi a CeDe.ch si prega di utilizzare il modulo di contatto.

I campi contrassegnati da * sono obbligatori.

Inviando questo modulo si accetta la nostra dichiarazione protezione dati.