Order from Confusion Sprung: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature from Swift to Cowper

ISBN-13: 9781138613133 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 450 str.

Claude Rawson

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Originally published in 1985, Order From Confusion Sprung contains reappraisals of the concepts underlying such terms as 'neo-classic' and 'Augustan' in their application to eighteenth-century literature, and comments on prevailing trends in the academic study of the subject in the last two decades.

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Preface  Acknowledgments  Texts and Editions Used  Part I: Swift  1. The Characters of Swift’s Satire: Reflections on Swift, Johnson, and Human Restlessness  2. Gulliver’s Travels and Some Modern Fictions  3. A Reading of A Modest Proposal  Part II: Swift, Pope and Augustan Verse Satire  4. Swifts Poems  5. Slaughtering Satire  6. Pope’s Waste Land: Reflections on Mock-Heroic  7. Pope’s ‘Opus Magnum’ and An Essay on Man  8. ‘Neo-classic’ and ‘Augustan’  Part III: Fielding  9. Dialogue and Authorial Presence in Fielding’s Novels and Plays  10. A Journal From This World to the Next  11. Empson’s Tom Jones  Part IV: Others  12. Notes on ‘Delicacy’  13. π -ious Boswell  14. William Cowper and Christopher Smart  Part V: Appendix  15. More Providence than Wit: Some Recent Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Literature  Index

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Claude Rawson is the author of several books on Swift, Fielding and other eighteenth-century authors, and of numerous articles and reviews both in specialist journals and in the Times Literary Supplement, New York Times Book Review and London Review of Books. He is General Editor of the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift, the Blackwell Critical Biographies and the Unwin Critical Library.