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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sider Jost, Jacob, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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