John Richetti (ed.)

The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780

Herausgeber: Richetti, John

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 964
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 60mm
• Gewicht: 1685g
• ISBN-13: 9780521781442
• ISBN-10: 0521781442
• Artikelnr.: 22246973

Autorenporträt

John Richetti is A. M. Rosenthal Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

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.