| Description |
379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
AMS studies in the eighteenth century ; no. 57 |
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AMS studies in the eighteenth century ; no. 57
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. Congregating a future : John Bunyan, accumulating aphorisms, and more-than-modern science -- Ch. 2. In search of an "empirical" system : Locke, Mandeville, and the mock-heroic enhancement of experience -- Ch. 3. Islands, clubs, and cosntellations : Daniel Defoe and the third Earl of Shaftesbury -- Ch. 4. The beginnings of novelty : Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, Bishop George Berkeley, and the neo-picaresque -- Ch. 5. Toward an environmental mode : letting nature take its authorial course in Richardson, Mackenzie, Burney, and Cowper |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
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Literary form -- History -- 18th century.
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Literary form -- History -- 17th century.
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Literature and history -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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Literature and history -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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| LC no. |
2007001716 |
| ISBN |
9780404648572 |
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0404648576 |
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