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From the pens of spectators, ramblers, idlers, tattlers, hypochondriacs, connoisseurs, and loungers, a new literary genre emerged in eighteenth-century England: the periodical essay. Situated between classical rhetoric and the novel, the English essay challenged the borders between fiction and nonfi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gigante, Denise, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2008.
Colección:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Temas:
English essays.
English language > Style.
Essais anglais.
Anglais (Langue) > Stylistique.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
English language > Style
English essays
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on the Text
  • Introduction
  • Map of Eighteenth-Century London
  • 1. RICHARD STEELE (1672â€?1729)
  • The Tatler (1709â€?11)
  • No. 1. [Introducing the Tatler]
  • No. 60. [Tom Wildair &c.]
  • No. 89. [Sir Isaac Bickerstaff, Censor of Great Britain]
  • No. 132. [The Old Prattlersâ€? Club]
  • No. 214. [The Political Barometer]
  • 2. JOSEPH ADDISON (1672â€?1719)
  • The Tatler (1709â€?11)
  • No. 155. [The Upholsterer]
  • No. 158. [Tom Folio]
  • No. 163. [Ned Softly, Sonneteer]
  • No. 216. [Nicholas Gimcrack, the Virtuoso]No. 220. [The Church Thermometer]
  • The Spectator (1711â€?12, 1714)
  • No. 1. [Introducing Mr. Spectator]
  • No. 26. [On Westminster Abbey]
  • No. 46. [The Spectatorâ€?s Notes]
  • No. 58. [On True and False Wit]
  • No. 81. [Party Patches]
  • No. 106. [A Visit to Sir Rogerâ€?s]
  • No. 112. [Sir Roger at Church]
  • No. 130. [Sir Roger and the Gypsies]
  • No. 235. [The Trunk-Maker as Drama Critic]
  • No. 409. [On Taste]
  • No. 411. [The Pleasures of the Imagination]
  • No. 529. [On Rank and Precedence]
  • 3. ELIZA HAYWOOD (c. 1693â€?1756)The Female Spectator (1744â€?46)
  • No. 1. [Martesia and Clitander]
  • The Parrot (1746)
  • No. 1. [Introduces Herself and Anticipates Critics]
  • No. 2. [Oram]
  • 4. SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709â€?84)
  • The Rambler (1750â€?52)
  • No. 4. [On Modern Romances, or Novels]
  • No. 14. [On the Life of an Author vs. His Writing]
  • No. 82. [On a Virtuoso]
  • No. 113. [On the Trials of Courtship]
  • No. 161. [On the Previous Inhabitants of His Garret]
  • No. 188. [On Being Liked vs. Being Respected]
  • No. 191. [A Young Belleâ€?s Complaint]
  • €œThe Idler, â€? The Universal Chronicle (1758â€?60)No. 1. [Introducing the Idler]
  • No. 17. [On Scientists and Cruelty to Animals]
  • No. [22]. [The Vultureâ€?s Speech on War]
  • No. 36. [On the Bugbear Style]
  • No. 44. [The Burden of Memory]
  • No. 60. [Dick Minim, the Critic]
  • No. 84. [On Biography vs. Autobiography]
  • No. 94. [On the Abatement of Learning and Bad Writing]
  • No. 103. [On Last Things]
  • 5. HENRY FIELDING (1707â€?54)
  • The Covent Garden Journal (1752)
  • No. 1. Introduction to a Journal of the Present Paper War
  • No. 4. [On the Meaning of Common Words]No. 6. [Uses to Which Learning Is Put]
  • No. 27. [On Betters and the Mob]
  • 6. WILLIAM COWPER (1731â€?1800)
  • The Connoisseur (1754â€?56)
  • No. 111. [On Mothersâ€? Sons]
  • No. 115. [On Being a Bachelor]
  • No. 119. [On Keeping a Secret]
  • No. 138. [On Conversation]
  • 7. OLIVER GOLDMSITH (c. 1730â€?74)
  • The Bee (1759)
  • Introduction
  • Happiness, in a Great Measure, Dependent on Constitution
  • The Sagacity of Some Insects
  • 8. JAMES BOSWELL (1740â€?95)

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