This is a candid reexamination of the work of Samuel Richardson, presenting a just view of one of the most important figures in the history of English prose fiction and eighteenth-century culture. The book surveys Richardson's literary career in its immediate setting and centers on the origins and publication of the three great novels and on their reception by the public.
Originally published in 1936.
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This is a candid reexamination of the work of Samuel Richardson, presenting a just view of one of the most important figures in the history of English...
Background of Thomson's Seasons was first published in 1942. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
There have been many valuable scattered studies of James Thomson's famous Seasons, but this is the first comprehensive book on the subject to be published in this country. This most popular long poem published in England in the eighteenth century well deserves reexamination. It is interesting not only to students of...
Background of Thomson's Seasons was first published in 1942. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable bo...
