Studies in the Eighteenth Century II : : Papers presented at the Second David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra 1970 / / ed. by R.F. Brissenden.
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....
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1973 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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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- An Early Theory of Genius: Alexander Gerard's Unpublished Aberdeen Lectures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