Edmund Gosse

A History of Eighteenth-Century Literature (1660 1780)

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Produktbeschreibung

This landmark study was one of the first works of English academic literary criticism, covering the period 1660 to 1780.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781108033916
• ISBN-10: 1108033911
• Artikelnr.: 39684523

Autorenporträt

Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) was an English poet, author and critic. He received an Hon MA from Cambridge University, lectured at Trinity College in Cambridge and worked as a librarian at the British Museum. He was a much sought after lecturer and speaker in his time and an honored literary critic.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Poetry after the Restoration
2. Drama after the Restoration
3. Prose after the Restoration
4. Pope
5. Swift and the Deists
6. Defoe and the essayists
7. The dawn of naturalism in poetry
8. The novelists
9. Johnson and the philosophers
10. The poets of the Decadence
11. The prose of the Decadence
12. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.