Studies in the Eighteenth Century : : Papers presented at the David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra 1966 /

Studies in the Eighteenth Century : : Papers presented at the David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra 1966 / / ed. by R.F. Brissenden.

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The papers brought together in this volume bear witness to the growing vigour and diversity of eighteenth-century studies. The seminar at which they were presented was held to honour the memory of a literary scholar, David Nichol Smith. It is therefore understandable and fitting that the majority of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Austin, M.N.,
Brissenden, R. F.,
Burke, Joseph,
Cameron, W. J.,
Cash, Arthur H.,
Cohen, Ralph,
Davis, Herbert,
Ford, Franklin L.,
Grave, S. A.,
Hardy, John,
Hope, A.D.,
Horne, C. J.,
Spate, O.H.K.,
Tisch, J. H.,
Watt, Ian,
Wiles, R. M.,
Wolper, Roy S.,
HerausgeberIn:
Brissenden, R.F.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1968
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Notes on Contributors
  • D.N.S. A Biographical Note
  • David Nichol Smith
  • The Enlightenment: Towards a Useful Redefinition
  • The Development of Eighteenth-Century Studies in the British Commonwealth
  • Middle-Class Literacy in Eighteenth-Century England: Fresh Evidence
  • Two Historical Aspects of the Augustan Tradition
  • ‘Sentiment’: Some Uses of the Word in the Writings of David Hume
  • Johnson’s Neglected Muse: The Drama
  • The Muse of Mercantilism: Jago, Grainger, and Dyer
  • The Birth of Tristram Shandy: Sterne and Dr Burton
  • Some Eighteenth-Century Attempts to Use the Notion of Happiness
  • The Augustan Mode in English Poetry
  • ‘From a Fable form a Truth’: A Consideration of the Fable in Swift’s Poetry
  • Milton and the German Mind in the Eighteenth Century
  • The Grand Tour and the Rule of Taste
  • Johnson’s London: The Country Versus the City
  • The Apocalypse of Christopher Smart
  • The Classical Learning of Samuel Johnson
  • Bibliography of Works by and about David Nichol Smith
  • Subscribers
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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