Claude Rawson

Order from Confusion Sprung (eBook, PDF)

Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature from Swift to Cowper

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1985, Order From Confusion Sprung contains reappraisals of the concepts underlying such terms as 'neo-classic' and 'Augustan' in their application to eighteenth-century literature, and comments on prevailing trends in the academic study of the subject in the last two decades.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429876462
• Artikelnr.: 55264700

Autorenporträt

Claude Rawson is the author of several books on Swift, Fielding and other eighteenth-century authors, and of numerous articles and reviews both in specialist journals and in the Times Literary Supplement, New York Times Book Review and London Review of Books. He is General Editor of the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift, the Blackwell Critical Biographies and the Unwin Critical Library.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments Texts and Editions Used Part I: Swift 1. The
Characters of Swift's Satire: Reflections on Swift, Johnson, and Human
Restlessness 2. Gulliver's Travels and Some Modern Fictions 3. A Reading of
A Modest Proposal Part II: Swift, Pope and Augustan Verse Satire 4. Swifts
Poems 5. Slaughtering Satire 6. Pope's Waste Land: Reflections on
Mock-Heroic 7. Pope's 'Opus Magnum' and An Essay on Man 8. 'Neo-classic'
and 'Augustan' Part III: Fielding 9. Dialogue and Authorial Presence in
Fielding's Novels and Plays 10. A Journal From This World to the Next 11.
Empson's Tom Jones Part IV: Others 12. Notes on 'Delicacy' 13. ¿ -ious
Boswell 14. William Cowper and Christopher Smart Part V: Appendix 15. More
Providence than Wit: Some Recent Approaches to Eighteenth-Century
Literature Index