Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French writing, and ideas. Examining key works by Johnson, Voltaire, Sterne, Adam Smith, Sarah Fielding, and Christopher Smart, the volume presents a wide-ranging account of the year's work in literature and the key issues that preoccupied writers at this time.
Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French writing, and ideas. Examining key works by Johnson, Voltaire, Sterne, Adam Smith, Sarah Fielding, and Christopher Smart, the volume presents a wide-ranging account of the year's work in literature and the key issues that preoccupied writers at this time.
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Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
Shaun Regan is lecturer in eighteenth-century and Romantic literature at Queen's University Belfast.
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Contents Acknowledgements Introduction by Shaun Regan I. Writing Empire 1. "What mankind has lost and gained": Johnson Rasselas and Colonialism by James Watt 2.. Voltaire's Candide as a Global Text: War Slavery and Leadership by Simon Davies II. Sentimental Ethics Luxurious Sexualities 3. Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759: Spectatorship Duty and Social Improvement by Nigel Wood 4. "On the soft beds of luxury most kingdoms have expired": 1759 and the Lives of Prostitutes by Mary Peace III. Authorship and Aesthetics 5. Young Goldsmith Johnson and the Idea of the Author in 1759 by Adam Rounce 6. Towards a New Language: Sublime Aesthetics in Smart's Jubilate Agno by Rosalind Powell IV. Enlightenment and its Discontents 7. The Encyclopédie in 1759: Crisis and Continuation by Rebecca Ford 8. Lost Cause: Hume Causation and Rasselas by James Ward V. Originality and Appropriation 9. Eccentricity Originality and the Novel: Tristram Shandy volumes 1 and 2 by Moyra Haslett 10. Shakespeare's "Propriety" and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Novel: Sarah Fielding's The History of the Countess of Dellwyn by Kate Rumbold VI. Conclusion: Reading 1759 11. Writers Reviewers and the Culture of Reading by Shaun Regan Bibliography About the Contributors
Contents Acknowledgements Introduction by Shaun Regan I. Writing Empire 1. "What mankind has lost and gained": Johnson Rasselas and Colonialism by James Watt 2.. Voltaire's Candide as a Global Text: War Slavery and Leadership by Simon Davies II. Sentimental Ethics Luxurious Sexualities 3. Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759: Spectatorship Duty and Social Improvement by Nigel Wood 4. "On the soft beds of luxury most kingdoms have expired": 1759 and the Lives of Prostitutes by Mary Peace III. Authorship and Aesthetics 5. Young Goldsmith Johnson and the Idea of the Author in 1759 by Adam Rounce 6. Towards a New Language: Sublime Aesthetics in Smart's Jubilate Agno by Rosalind Powell IV. Enlightenment and its Discontents 7. The Encyclopédie in 1759: Crisis and Continuation by Rebecca Ford 8. Lost Cause: Hume Causation and Rasselas by James Ward V. Originality and Appropriation 9. Eccentricity Originality and the Novel: Tristram Shandy volumes 1 and 2 by Moyra Haslett 10. Shakespeare's "Propriety" and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Novel: Sarah Fielding's The History of the Countess of Dellwyn by Kate Rumbold VI. Conclusion: Reading 1759 11. Writers Reviewers and the Culture of Reading by Shaun Regan Bibliography About the Contributors
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