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Pages : 378
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The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith by John Forster
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Pages : 378
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Reading 1759
Author: Shaun Regan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611484782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British "year of victories" during the Seven Years' War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of fiction, philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. Reading 1759 is the first book to examine together the range of works written and published during this crucial year. Offering broad coverage of the year's work in writing, these essays examine key works by Johnson, Voltaire, Sterne, Adam Smith, Edward Young, Sarah Fielding, and Christopher Smart, along with such group projects as the Encyclop die and the literary review journals of the mid-eighteenth century. Organized around a cluster of key topics, the volume reflects the concerns most important to writers themselves in 1759. This was a year of the new and the modern, as writers addressed current issues of empire and ethical conduct, forged new forms of creative expression, and grappled with the nature of originality itself. Texts written and published in 1759 confronted the history of Western colonialism, the problem of prostitution in a civilized society, and the limitations of linguistic expression. Philosophical issues were also important in 1759, not least the thorny question of causation; while, in France, state censorship challenged the Encyclop die, the central Enlightenment project. Taking into its purview such texts and intellectual developments, Reading 1759 puts the literary culture of this singular, and singularly important, year on the scholarly map. In the process, the volume also provides a self-reflective contribution to the growing body of "annualized" studies that focus on the literary output of specific years.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611484782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British "year of victories" during the Seven Years' War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of fiction, philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. Reading 1759 is the first book to examine together the range of works written and published during this crucial year. Offering broad coverage of the year's work in writing, these essays examine key works by Johnson, Voltaire, Sterne, Adam Smith, Edward Young, Sarah Fielding, and Christopher Smart, along with such group projects as the Encyclop die and the literary review journals of the mid-eighteenth century. Organized around a cluster of key topics, the volume reflects the concerns most important to writers themselves in 1759. This was a year of the new and the modern, as writers addressed current issues of empire and ethical conduct, forged new forms of creative expression, and grappled with the nature of originality itself. Texts written and published in 1759 confronted the history of Western colonialism, the problem of prostitution in a civilized society, and the limitations of linguistic expression. Philosophical issues were also important in 1759, not least the thorny question of causation; while, in France, state censorship challenged the Encyclop die, the central Enlightenment project. Taking into its purview such texts and intellectual developments, Reading 1759 puts the literary culture of this singular, and singularly important, year on the scholarly map. In the process, the volume also provides a self-reflective contribution to the growing body of "annualized" studies that focus on the literary output of specific years.
Catalogue of the Contents of Section A-p
Author: Leeds Public Libraries
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Pages : 740
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Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature, Volume 57, July to December 1892
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Category : Bibliography
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Pages : 788
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Pages : 788
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Tauchnitz Edition
Author: Bernhard Tauchnitz Verlag
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Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Pages : 170
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The Examiner
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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Pages : 936
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Catalogue of the Library
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Pages : 856
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Pages : 856
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The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
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Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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Pages : 1100
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Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Pages : 630
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Pages : 630
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The Athenaeum
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1568
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1568
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