The Eighteenth Century: The Context of English Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367445263 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 276 str.

Pat Rogers

Opis

The aim of this book, originally published in 1978, is to make the reading of literary classics such as Gulliver’s Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Tom Jones, The Beggar’s Opera and Tristram Shandy an even richer experience by giving them an intelligible place in history.

Spis treści

Illustrations.  Table of Dates.  1. Introduction: The Writer and Society Pat Rogers  2. Politics W.A. Speck  3. Religion and Ideas John Valdimir Price  4. Science G.S. Rousseau  5. The Visual Arts Peter Willis.  Index

O autorze

Pat Rogers (Ed.)