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The Eighteenth Century: The Context of English Literature

The Eighteenth Century: The Context of English Literature

Rogers, Pat

Paperback

Series: Routledge Library Editions: 18th Century Literature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0367445301
ISBN13: 9780367445300
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 19 2022
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The aim of this book, originally published in 1978, is to make the reading of literary classics such as Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Tom Jones, The Beggar's Opera and Tristram Shandy an even richer experience by giving them an intelligible place in history. The 'context' is seen not as a vague backcloth, but as a living fabric of ideas and events which animate Augustan literature. The authors cover the achievements of men like Hume, Walpole, Chippendale, Newton and Reynolds, who are often merely names to the literary student, and show how writers were affected by exciting developments in psychology, aesthetics, medicine and other fields. As a whole the book shows this period to have been an active, questing and complex era, whose literary masterpieces emanate from a rich and diverse culture.

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