Reading 1759 [electronic resource] : literary culture in mid-eighteenth-century Britain and France / edited by Shaun Regan.
Regan, Shaun, 1970-
2012
PR441 .R43 2012eb
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Title Reading 1759 [electronic resource] : literary culture in mid-eighteenth-century Britain and France / edited by Shaun Regan.
ISBN 9781611484793 electronic bk.
9781611484786
Publication Details Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press, c2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 255 p.)
Call Number PR441 .R43 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 820.9/006
Summary Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Examining key works by Johnson, Voltaire, Sterne, Adam Smith, Edward Young, Sarah Fielding, and Christopher Smart, the volume presents a wide-ranging account of the year's work in literature and of the key issues that preoccupied writers at this time: from empire, civilization, and social reform to Enlightenment knowledge, authorial originality, and literary taste.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Regan, Shaun, 1970-
Series Transits (Bucknell University)
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Introduction / Shaun Regan
"What mankind has lost and gained": Johnson, Rasselas, and colonialism / James Watt
Voltaire's Candide as a global text: war, slavery, and leadership / Simon Davies
Adam Smith's The theory of moral sentiments in 1759: spectatorship, duty, and social improvement / Nigel Wood
"On the soft beds of luxury most kingdoms have expired": 1759 and the Lives of prostitutes / Mary Peace
Young, Goldsmith, Johnson, and the idea of the author in 1759 / Adam Rounce
Towards a new language: sublime aesthetics in Smart's Jubilate Agno / Rosalind Powell
The Encyclopidie in 1759: crisis and continuation / Rebecca Ford
Lost cause: Hume, causation, and Rasselas / James Ward
Eccentricity, originality, and the novel: Tristram Shandy, volumes 1 and 2 / Moyra Haslett
Shakespeare's "propriety" and the mid-eighteenth-century novel: Sarah Fielding's The history of the countess of Dellwyn / Kate Rumbold
Writers, reviewers, and the culture of reading / Shaun Regan.

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