Studies in the Eighteenth Century II : : Papers presented at the Second David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra 1970 / / ed. by R.F. Brissenden.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Allentuck, Mania,; Bell, A. S.,; Carroll, John,; Cashmere, J. J.,; Donaldson, Ian,; Elkner, Brian A.,; Fabian, Bernhard,; Greene, Donald,; Hainsworth, John,; Hay, John A.,; Korshin, Paul J.,; Landa, Louis A.,; Leith, James A.,; Pearson, W. H.,; Rae, Thomas I.,; Rawson, C. J.,; Robinson, Roger,; Shackleton, Robert,; Stout, Gardner D.,; Wilding, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Brissenden, R.F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1973
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (444 p.)

This volume presents an array of studies on many aspects of the eighteenth century: on the novel, history, the history of ideas, drama, poetry and sentimentality. The essays are as diverse as ‘Pope’s Essays on Man and the French Enlightenment’ and ‘Of Silk-worms and Farthingales and the Will of God.’ One group is concerned with the works and ideas of Bayle, Alexander Gerard, Diderot, Fuseli, Hawkesworth and Swift among others.The essays are the work of leading scholars for many disciplines and were presented at the Second David Nichol Smith Seminar; together they reflect some of the liveliest and most up-to-date trends in the present reexamination of the period. The book will be invaluable to all students of the literature, thought, and civilisation of the eighteenth century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Pope's Essay on Man and the French Enlightenment -- The Hero as Clown: Jonathan Wild, Felix Krull and Others -- Richardson at Work: Revisions, Allusions, and Quotations in Clarissa -- Rhetoric and Historiography: Tristram Shandy’s First Nine Kalendar Months -- Henry Fielding and the English Rococo -- An Early Theory of Genius: Alexander Gerard's Unpublished Aberdeen Lectures -- Diderot and the Sublime: The Artist as Hero -- Fuseli's Translations of Winckelmann: A Phase in the Rise of British Hellenism with an aside on William Blake -- The Influence of Pierre Boyle's Defence of Toleration on the Idea of History expressed in the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique -- Historical Scepticism in Scotland before David Hume -- Modernisation, Mass Education and Social Mobility in French Thought, 1750–1789 -- Hawkesworth's Voyages -- Of Silkworms and Farthingales and the Will of God -- Swift and Satirical Typology in A Tale of a Tub -- The Politics of Gulliver's Travels -- Satire and Self-Expression in Swift's Tale of a Tub -- Swift: Some Caveats -- David Garrick, Poet of the Theatre: A Critical Survey -- Cato in Tears: Stoical Guises of the Man of Feeling -- Nichol Smith Collections in Edinburgh and Oxford -- Index