Prose Immortality, 1711-1819 /

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Writers have always aspired to immortality, using their works to preserve their patrons, their loved ones, and themselves beyond death. For Pindar, Horace, and Shakespeare, the vehicle of such preservation was poetry. In the eighteenth century, figures such as Joseph Addison, Edward Young, Samuel Ri...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Sider Jost, Jacob, 1983- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Prosa
Englisch
English prose literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Prose anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
English prose literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The afterlife and the spectator
  • Night thoughts on time, fame, and immortality
  • The threat to the soul in Butler and Warburton
  • The beatified Clarissa
  • Happy ever after in Sir Charles Grandison
  • Laetitia Pilkington in sheets
  • Johnson's eternal silences
  • James Boswell, also, enters into heaven
  • Epilogue: Keats imagines the life of Shakespeare.

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