Essays in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

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This volume contains a selection of the major essays written over a period of three decades by a distinguished scholar of eighteenth-century English literature. In each essay, Professor Landa attempts to show how cultural and intellectual assumptions and presuppositions of the age have been assimila...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Landa, Louis A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Swift, Jonathan, > 1667-1745.
Swift, Jonathan, > 1667-1745 > Criticism and interpretation.
English literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
Litterature anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Swift's Economic Views and Mercantilism
  • A Modest Proposal and Populousness
  • Jonathan Swift and Charity
  • Jonathan Swift: "Not the Gravest of Divines"
  • Swift, the Mysteries, and Deism
  • Swift's Deanery Income
  • Jonathan Swift
  • The Shandean Homunculus: The Background of Sterne's "Little Gentleman"
  • Johnson's Feathered Man: "A Dissertation on the Art of Flying" Considered
  • Pope's Belinda, The General Emporie of the World, and the Wondrous Worm
  • Of Silkworms and Farthingales and the Will of God
  • London Observed: The Progress of a Simile
  • Index.

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