Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought – serie
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Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: Volume 1, Whichcote to Wesley
A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England 1660-1780
Av Isabel Rivers, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
842 kr
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The period 1660-1780 saw major changes in the relationship between religion and ethics in English thought. In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. …
Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: Volume 2, Shaftesbury to Hume
A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780
Av Isabel Rivers, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
842 kr
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This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the …
Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment
Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel
Av Michael Prince, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
606 kr
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This book offers the first full-length study of philosophical dialogue during the English Enlightenment. It explains why important philosophers - Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Berkeley and Hume - and innumerable minor translators, imitators and critics wrote in and about dialogue during the eighteenth …
The Body in Swift and Defoe
Av Carol Houlihan Flynn, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
787 kr
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This original book takes a new look at problems surrounding the physical, material nature of the human body, in particular as represented in the works of Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe. It examines the role that literary invention (with its rhetorical and linguistic strategies) plays in expressing …
Mania and Literary Style
The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart
Av Clement Hawes, Howard Erskine-Hill
Häftad, 2005
640 kr
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This highly original study of the 'manic style' in enthusiastic writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries identifies a literary tradition and line of influence running from the radical visionary and prophetic writing of the Ranters and their fellow enthusiasts to the work of Jonathan …
Defoe and the New Sciences
Av Ilse Vickers, Howard Erskine-Hill
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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In his long career as a writer Daniel Defoe never tired of advocating the value of personal observation and experience; and he never wavered in his conviction that it is man's God-given duty to explore and make productive use of nature. In this first major study of Bacon's legacy to Defoe, Ilse …
Locke, Literary Criticism, and Philosophy
Av William Walker, Howard Erskine-Hill
Häftad, 2006
654 kr
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William Walker's original analysis of John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding offers a challenging and provocative assessment of Locke's importance as a thinker, bridging the gap between philosophical and literary-critical discussion of his work. He presents Locke as a foundational …
Swift's Parody
Av Robert Phiddian, Howard Erskine-Hill
Häftad, 2006
635 kr
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Jonathan Swift's prose has been discussed extensively as satire, but its major structural element, parody, has not received the attention it deserves. Focusing mainly on works before 1714, and especially on A Tale of a Tub, this study explores Swift's writing primarily as parody. Robert Phiddian …
The English Fable
Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651-1740
Av Jayne Elizabeth Lewis, Howard Erskine-Hill
Häftad, 2006
823 kr
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Between 1651 and 1740 hundreds of fables, fable collections, and biographies of the ancient Greek slave Aesop were published in England. In The English Fable, Jayne Elizabeth Lewis describes the national obsession with Aesop's fables during this period as both a figural response to sociopolitical …
Swift's Politics
A Study in Disaffection
Av Ian Higgins, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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Modern scholarship has represented Jonathan Swift as both an Old Whig and a non-Jacobite Tory. Ian Higgins' contextual reassessment of Swift's political writing and recorded opinion considers the interpretative problems they present. It explores the consonance of Swift's political writing with …
Women's Place in Pope's World
Av Valerie Rumbold, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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How was Alexander Pope's personal experience of women transformed into poetry, and how in turn did he and his writing figure in the lives of the women he wrote about? How characteristic of his age was Pope's attitude towards women? What exactly was the role in his life of individual women such as …
Landscape, Liberty and Authority
Poetry, Criticism and Politics from Thomson to Wordsworth
Av Tim Fulford, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
767 kr
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Eighteenth-century landscape description formed part of a larger debate over the nature of liberty and authority which was vital to a Britain newly defining its nationhood in a period of growing imperial power and rapid economic change. Tim Fulford examines landscape description in the writings of …
The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy
Av Peter Walmsley, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
654 kr
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The works of George Berkeley (1685-1753) have been the object of much philosophical analysis; but philosophers are writers as well as thinkers, and Berkeley was himself positively interested in the functions of language and style. He recognized that words are used not just to convey ideas, but to …
The Triumph of Augustan Poetics
English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson
Av Blanford Parker, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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The Triumph of Augustan Poetics offers an important re-evaluation of the transition from Baroque to Augustan in English literature. Starting with Butler's Hudibras, Blanford Parker describes Augustan satire as a movement away from the 'controversial disputation' of the seventeenth century to a …
Defoe's Politics
Parliament, Power, Kingship and 'Robinson Crusoe'
Av Manuel Schonhorn, Howard Erskine-Hill
Häftad, 2006
767 kr
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This study of Defoe's politics aims to challenge the critical demand to see Defoe as a 'modern' and to counter misrepresentations of his political writings by restoring them to their seventeenth-century context. Offering a full examination of Defoe's years as a political reporter and journalist …
Poetry and Jacobite Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Av Murray G. H. Pittock, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
842 kr
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The aim of this book is to question assumptions about the nature of the Augustan era through an exploration of Jacobite ideology. Taking as its starting point the fundamental ambivalence of the Augustan concept the author studies canonical and non-canonical literature and uncovers the 'four …
Space and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel
Av Simon Varey, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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In this challenging and illustrated study, first published in 1990, Simon Varey relates the idea of space in the major novels of Defoe, Fielding and Richardson to its use in the theory and practice of eighteenth-century architecture. Concepts of divine design, expressed in the work of philosophers …
Literary Transmission and Authority
Dryden and Other Writers
Av Greg Clingham, David Kramer m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
654 kr
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Dryden's writings are studded with names, conspicuously those of his literary predecessors and contemporaries. He defined himself as a writer in relation to other writers, and in doing so was something of a pioneer professional man of letters: poet, playwright, critic, prose stylist, England's …
The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England
Av Donald Davie
Häftad, 2007
729 kr
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Donald Davie is the foremost literary critics of his generation and one of its leading poets. His career has been marked by a series of challenging critical interventions. The eighteenth century is the great age of the English hymn though these powerful and popular texts have been marginalized in …
Robert South (1634-1716)
An Introduction to his Life and Sermons
Av Gerard Reedy
Häftad, 2007
635 kr
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Robert South (1634-1716) was one of the great Anglican writers and preachers of his age. A contemporary of Dryden and Locke, he faced the profound political and philosophical changes taking place at the beginning of the Enlightenment in England. With the interdependence of Church and State forcing …
Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
The Public Conscience in the Private Sphere
Häftad, 2007
654 kr
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Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction offers challenging interpretations of the public and private faces of individualism in the eighteenth-century English novel. John P. Zomchick begins by surveying the social, historical and ideological functions of law and the family in England's …
Arguments of Augustan Wit
Av John Sitter
Häftad, 2007
654 kr
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Comic and satiric literature from the 1670s to the 1740s is characterized by the allusive and elusive word play of Augustan wit. The arguments of Augustan wit reveal preoccupations with the metaphorical dimension of language so distrusted by Locke and others who saw it as fundamentally opposed to …
Crime and Defoe
A New Kind of Writing
Häftad, 2008
640 kr
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This book seeks to recover something of the original excitement, challenge and significance of Defoe's four novels of criminal life by reading them within and against the conventions of early eighteenth-century criminal biography. Crime raised deeply troubling questions in Defoe's time, not least …
The Transformation of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Häftad, 2008
767 kr
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David Womersley's book investigates Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as both a work of literature and a work of history, examining its style and irony, tracing its classical and French sources, and highlighting the importance of its composition in three instalments over a …
Sterne's Fiction and the Double Principle
Häftad, 2008
729 kr
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The author of Tristram Shandy made frequent use of literary fragments from other writers, as part of his own style. Laurence Sterne's quotations, plagiarisms and allusions were often employed in the service of the pleonasm, or 'performed pun'. Jonathan Lamb describes Sterne's operation of the …
Women's Place in Pope's World
Inbunden, 1989
1872 kr
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How was Alexander Pope's personal experience of women transformed into poetry, and how in turn did he and his writing figure in the lives of the women he wrote about? How characteristic of his age was Pope's attitude towards women? What exactly was the role in his life of individual women such as …
Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650-1850
Av Dianne Dugaw
Inbunden, 1989
1797 kr
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Dianne Dugaw's book documents the flourishing of the female warrior heroine in lower-class popular songs of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In well over a hundred ballads during this period, the heroine masquerades as a man, going to war for love and glory. The author examines the …
The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy
Inbunden, 1990
1797 kr
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The works of George Berkeley (1685-1753) have been the object of much philosophical analysis; but philosophers are writers as well as thinkers, and Berkeley was himself positively interested in the functions of language and style. He recognized that words are used not just to convey ideas, but to …
Space and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel
Av Simon Varey
Inbunden, 1990
2266 kr
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In this challenging and illustrated study, first published in 1990, Simon Varey relates the idea of space in the major novels of Defoe, Fielding and Richardson to its use in the theory and practice of eighteenth-century architecture. Concepts of divine design, expressed in the work of philosophers …
The Body in Swift and Defoe
Av Carol Houlihan Flynn, Howard Erskine-Hill m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
1198 kr
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This original book takes a new look at problems surrounding the physical, material nature of the human body, in particular as represented in the works of Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe. It examines the role that literary invention (with its rhetorical and linguistic strategies) plays in expressing …
