Eighteenth Century Characters offers a brief introduction to the literature of the Eighteenth century, using character types as its starting point. It presents contextualized readings of stock characters, such as the rake, the fop, the coquette and the country maid, exploring how these characters' significance and roles change over the century. This fresh approach will provide students with the necessary background to understand the period's literature and to embark on further study.
Eighteenth Century Characters offers a brief introduction to the literature of the Eighteenth century, using character types as its starting point. It...
Eighteenth Century Characters offers a brief introduction to the literature of the Eighteenth century, using character types as its starting point. It presents contextualized readings of stock characters, such as the rake, the fop, the coquette and the country maid, exploring how these characters' significance and roles change over the century. This fresh approach will provide students with the necessary background to understand the period's literature and to embark on further study.
Eighteenth Century Characters offers a brief introduction to the literature of the Eighteenth century, using character types as its starting po...
This book explores a cultural language, the heroic, that remained consistently powerful through the social, political, and dynastic turbulence of the long eighteenth century. The heroic provided an accessible and vivid shorthand for the ongoing ideological debates over the nature of authority and power, the construction of an ideal masculinity, and the shape of a new, British-rather than English-national identity. An analysis of this cultural language and its different valence over time not only unpacks the overlap between aesthetic and political debate in the late seventeenth and early...
This book explores a cultural language, the heroic, that remained consistently powerful through the social, political, and dynastic turbulence of the ...
