Eighteenth-Century Writers in their World: A Mighty Maze

ISBN-13: 9780333679739 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 256 str.

Andrew Varney

Opis

This comprehensive new study reads both major and lesser-known texts of the period 1700-1750 in their social, cultural, historical and intellectual contexts. Each chapter introduces and discusses a topic, such as travel, science, money and love, and reads a selection of texts in its light. Covering works by Congreve, Defoe, Mrs Manley, Addison, women poets, Swift, Pope, Fielding and Richardson, this is an invaluable and illuminating guide for students of the period.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Other Worlds: Narratives of Travel, Robinson Crusoe; Gulliver's Travels.- Wit and Virtue: The Way of the World; Clarissa.- Money and Government: Roxana; The Beggar's Opera.- Men and Women, Love and Marriage: The Rape of the Lock; Roderick Random; Tom Jones.- Writing by Women: Mrs Manley; The Female Poets. Appendix: The Preface to Queen Zarah.- The Harmony of Things: An Essay on Man; Moral Essays.- Science and Nature: The Spectator; Gulliver's Travels; The Seasons.- Country and City, The Choice of Life: Dr Johnson.- Reading Lists.- Index.

O autorze

ANDREW VARNEY is a Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Swansea.