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Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Challenging the longstanding interpretation of the early English public sphere as polite, inclusive, and egalitarian this book re-interprets key texts by representative male authors from the period—Addison, Steele, Shaftesbury, and Richardson—as reactionary responses to the widely-consumed and...
Published March 11th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
By examining the motif of ruination in a variety of late-eighteenth-century domains, this book portrays the moral aesthetic of the culture of sensibility in Europe, particularly its negotiation of the demands of tradition and pragmatism alongside utopian longings for authenticity, natural goodness,...
Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves....
Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
This study looks at developments in eighteenth-century drama that influenced the rise of the novel; it begins by asking why women writers of this period experimented so frequently with both novels and plays. Here, Eliza Haywood, Frances Burney, Elizabeth Inchbald, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen...
Published October 10th 2011 by Routledge
Contemporaries were mesmerized by the outrageous wit of Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), a writer still widely regarded as the greatest satirist of all time. Soon after Swift’s death, his friends and enemies raced to publish the definitive account of the Dean of St Patrick’s. Now, Routledge brings these...
Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
This study interprets eighteenth-century satire’s famous typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment’s "ocularcentric" epistemological paradigms, as well as to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly "visual" — a moment at which widespread...
Published May 25th 2011 by Routledge
Published May 23rd 2011 by Routledge
Published May 23rd 2011 by Routledge
Published May 23rd 2011 by Routledge
Published May 23rd 2011 by Routledge
