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]
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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  • An Early Theory of Genius: Alexander Gerard's Unpublished Aberdeen Lectures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