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

ISBN-13: 9781138613140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 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