Wall A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75749-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture

This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives oneighteenth-century literature.
* * Contributes to current debates in the field on subjects such asthe public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric,gender and the book trade, and historical versus literaryperceptions of life on London streets.
* Searches out connections between the remarkable number of newgenres that appeared in the eighteenth century.
* Crosses conventional disciplinary lines.
* Demonstrates that philosophy, history, politics and socialtheory both influence and are influenced by literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wall, Cynthia

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations.
Notes on Contributors.
Introduction: Cynthia Wall.
1. Trade, travel and empire: "Knowing other places1660-1800": Miles Ogborn (University of London) and CharlesW. J. Withers (University of Edinburgh).
2. Scientific investigations: "Paradise regained: therhetoric of English experimentalism": Joanna Picciotto(Princeton University).
3. Public and private: "The myth of the bourgeois publicsphere": J. A. Downie (University of London).
4. The Streets: "Literary beggars and the reality ofstreet life in eighteenth-century London": Tim Hitchcock(University of Hertfordshire).
5. The Sewers: Ordure, Effluence and Excess in the EighteenthCentury: Sophie Gee (Princeton University).
6. The Novel: "Novels in the world of moving goods":Deidre Shauna Lynch (Indiana University).
7. The Gothic: "Moving in the world of novels": MarkBlackwell (University of Hartford).
8. Gendering Texts: "'The Abuse of TitlePages': men writing as women": Susan Staves (BrandeisUniversity).
9. Drama: "Dramatic changes": John O'Brien(University of Virginia).
10. Poetry: "Poetry of occasions": J. Paul Hunter(University of Virginia).
11. Forms of Sublimity: The Garden, the Georgic, the Nation:Rachel Crawford (University of San Francisco).
12. Criticism: "Literary history and literary historicism:Mark Salber Phillips (Carleton University).
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cynthia Wall is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London (1998) and an editor of Pope and Defoe.