This book throws fresh light on British and Irish politics at the start of the eighteenth century. It tells for the first time the story of a powerful and eccentric peer, Thomas Coningsby, who played a key role in Ireland as the kings saviour at the Battle of the Boyne and as one of the top administrators of the Protestant ascendancy. It describes his tumultuous career in local and national politics in England, along with his hectic familial and private life, marked by his combative behaviour towards neighbours and tenants in Herefordshire, where he feuded with the Harley clan and the Duke of...
This book throws fresh light on British and Irish politics at the start of the eighteenth century. It tells for the first time the story of a powerful...
In this introduction to Pope's life and work, the poet's highly successful career as a man of letters is seen against the background of the Augustan age as a whole. Pat Rogers begins by examining the relationship of the 18th-century writer to his audience, and discusses the role of style and versification in this. The book covers the whole of Pope's work and includes not only the translations of Homer and such minor poems as 'The Temple of Fame', but also the prose, both drama and correspondence.
In this introduction to Pope's life and work, the poet's highly successful career as a man of letters is seen against the background of the Augustan a...
First published in 1979, this title presents the basic facts and the background information needed by a modern reader of 'Robinson Crusoe', as well as a careful exploration of the structure and style of the work itself.
First published in 1979, this title presents the basic facts and the background information needed by a modern reader of 'Robinson Crusoe', as well as...
First published in 1972, this is a detailed study of the milieu of the eighteenth-century literary hack and its significance in Augustan literature. Although the modern term 'Grub Street' has declined into vague metaphor, for the Augustan satirists it embodied not only an actual place but an emphatic lifestyle. Pat Rogers shows that the major satirists - Pope, Swift, and Fielding - built a potent fiction surrounding the real circumstances in which the scribblers lived, and the importance of this aspect of their writing.
First published in 1972, this is a detailed study of the milieu of the eighteenth-century literary hack and its significance in Augustan literature. A...
In this concise introduction to Pope's life and work, first published in 1975, the poet's highly successful career as a man of letters is seen against the background of the Augustan age as a whole. Pat Rogers begins by examining the relationship of the eighteenth-century writer to his audience, and discusses the role of style and versification in this. The book covers the whole of Pope's work and includes not only the translations of Homer and such minor poems as The Temple of Fame, but also the prose, both drama and correspondence. Based on extensive research, this book will...
In this concise introduction to Pope's life and work, first published in 1975, the poet's highly successful career as a man of letters is seen agai...
First published in 1972, this is the first detailed study of the milieu of the eighteenth-century literary hack and its significance in Augustan literature. Although the modern term 'Grub Street' has declined into vague metaphor, for the Augustan satirists it embodied not only an actual place but an emphatic lifestyle. Pat Rogers shows that the major satirists - Pope, Swift and Fielding - built a potent fiction surrounding the real circumstances in which the scribblers lived, and the importance of this aspect of their writing. The author first locates the original Grub Street, in what is...
First published in 1972, this is the first detailed study of the milieu of the eighteenth-century literary hack and its significance in Augustan li...
First published in 1979, this title presents the basic facts and the background information needed by a modern reader of Robinson Crusoe, as well as a careful exploration of the structure and style of the work itself. Pat Rogers pays particular attention to the book s composition and publishing history, the critical history surrounding it from 1719 onwards, and the contemporary context of geographical discovery, colonialism and piracy, as well as more controversial areas of interpretation. A wide-ranging and practical reissue, this study will be of value to literature students with...
First published in 1979, this title presents the basic facts and the background information needed by a modern reader of Robinson Crusoe, as...
