Essays in Eighteenth-Century English Literature / / Louis A. Landa.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©1980 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Series of Collected Essays ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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