Title
- Blackwell Concise Companions To Literature And Culture
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edited by Cynthia WallPublication Details
BookBlackwell Pub2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR441 .C665 2005 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Description
This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature. Contributes to current debates in the field on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, and historical versus literary perceptions of life on London streets. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- English literature — 18th century — History and criticism
- English literature — Early modern, 1500-1700 — History and criticism
- Literature and history — Great Britain — 18th century
- Literature and history — Great Britain — 17th century
- Great Britain — History — Restoration, 1660-1688
- Great Britain — Civilization — 18th century
- Great Britain — Civilization — 17th century
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Contents
- Travel, trade, and empire : knowing other places, 1660- 1800 /Miles Ogborn and Charles W.J. Withers
- Scientific investigations : experimentalism and paradisal return /Joanna Picciotto
- Public and private : the myth of the bourgeois public sphere /J.A. Downie
- The streets : literary beggars and the realities of eighteenth-century London /Tim Hitchcock
- The sewers : ordure, effluence, and excess in the eighteenth century /Sophie Gee
- The novel : novels in the world of moving goods /Deidre Shauna Lynch
- The gothic : moving in the world of novels /Mark R. Blackwell
- Gendering texts : "the abuse of title pages" : men writing as women /Susan Staves
- Drama : genre, gender, theater /John O’Brien
- Poetry : the poetry of occasions /J. Paul Hunter
- Forms of sublimity : the garden, the Georgic, and the nation /Rachel Crawford
- Criticism : literary history and literary historicism / Mark Salber Phillips
ISBN
- 1405101180
- 1405101172
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