Eighteenth-Century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Philip Harth

ISBN-13: 9780299174804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 328 str.

Howard D. Weinbrot; Peter J. Schakel; Stephen E. Karian

Opis

This text offers an array of essays that consider literary, intellectual, political, theological and cultural aspects of the years 1650-1800, in the British Isles and Europe. At the centre of the book is Jonathan Swift; other essays discuss Alexander Pope, 18th-century music and poetry, William Congreve, James Boswell, Samuel Richardson, and women's novels of the 18th century.