This collection opens a panorama of essays celebrating diverse ways to participate in the British-and international-Enlightenment. Investigating major authors, unusual persons, commentators on other nations, scholars, and even early environmentalists, this volume explores the many amenable places where the confident culture of this period emerged.
This collection opens a panorama of essays celebrating diverse ways to participate in the British-and international-Enlightenment. Investigating major authors, unusual persons, commentators on other nations, scholars, and even early environmentalists, this volume explores the many amenable places where the confident culture of this period emerged.
Kevin L. Cope is the Robert and Rita Wetta Adams Professor of English at Louisiana State University.
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Introduction: A Place for Genius: Howard Weinbrot and Eighteenth-Century Studies Kevin L. Cope Part One: Poised on a Plinth or Perched on a Precipice?: Major Authors Chapter One: Swift's Lists J. T. Scanlan Chapter Two: History, Myth, and Heroism in Dryden's Translation, The Æneis David Venturo Chapter Three: Discourses of the Eye: Romeo and Juliet and William Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode Timothy Erwin Part Two: Lives: Actual, Engrossed, or Otherwise Chapter Four: Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Philosophers Robert DeMaria, Jr. Chapter Five: Imitation and Biography: Richard Savage and the Misreading of London Lance Wilcox Chapter Six: Johnson's Irascibles and the Good Work of Bad Stories David Wade Nunnery Chapter Seven: Johnson, Dodd, and the Concentrated Sententia A. W. Lee Part Three: Turbulent Times and Edgy Eternity: Conceiving, Building, and Revising the Enlightenment Chapter Eight: 'Incipit': Pope's Beginnings, Original and Revised Stephen Karian Chapter Nine: Major, Minor, Marginal, Mummified: The Lost Middle Years of Eighteenth-Century Canon Formation in the Twentieth Century James Engell Chapter Ten: 'Sublunary Particularity': Religion, Rhetoric, and Difference Samara Anne Cahill Chapter Eleven: Stewards of the Lord: Eighteenth-Century Gardeners as Pioneers of Sustainability Bärbel Czennia Part Four: Identity, British or Personal: Finding Oneself in the Long Eighteenth Century Chapter Twelve: Diplomacy, Diversion, and Invention: Sir George Macartney at the Court of Catherine the Great Greg Clingham Chapter Thirteen: Johnson and Stendhal: A French Connection Philip Smallwood Chapter Fourteen: Samuel Johnson and the Sense of Place Stephen Clarke Chapter Fifteen: Some Dreams in Eighteenth-Century Fiction Maximillian E. Novak
Introduction: A Place for Genius: Howard Weinbrot and Eighteenth-Century Studies Kevin L. Cope Part One: Poised on a Plinth or Perched on a Precipice?: Major Authors Chapter One: Swift's Lists J. T. Scanlan Chapter Two: History, Myth, and Heroism in Dryden's Translation, The Æneis David Venturo Chapter Three: Discourses of the Eye: Romeo and Juliet and William Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode Timothy Erwin Part Two: Lives: Actual, Engrossed, or Otherwise Chapter Four: Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Philosophers Robert DeMaria, Jr. Chapter Five: Imitation and Biography: Richard Savage and the Misreading of London Lance Wilcox Chapter Six: Johnson's Irascibles and the Good Work of Bad Stories David Wade Nunnery Chapter Seven: Johnson, Dodd, and the Concentrated Sententia A. W. Lee Part Three: Turbulent Times and Edgy Eternity: Conceiving, Building, and Revising the Enlightenment Chapter Eight: 'Incipit': Pope's Beginnings, Original and Revised Stephen Karian Chapter Nine: Major, Minor, Marginal, Mummified: The Lost Middle Years of Eighteenth-Century Canon Formation in the Twentieth Century James Engell Chapter Ten: 'Sublunary Particularity': Religion, Rhetoric, and Difference Samara Anne Cahill Chapter Eleven: Stewards of the Lord: Eighteenth-Century Gardeners as Pioneers of Sustainability Bärbel Czennia Part Four: Identity, British or Personal: Finding Oneself in the Long Eighteenth Century Chapter Twelve: Diplomacy, Diversion, and Invention: Sir George Macartney at the Court of Catherine the Great Greg Clingham Chapter Thirteen: Johnson and Stendhal: A French Connection Philip Smallwood Chapter Fourteen: Samuel Johnson and the Sense of Place Stephen Clarke Chapter Fifteen: Some Dreams in Eighteenth-Century Fiction Maximillian E. Novak
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