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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453483303321

Titolo

James Arbuckle : selected works / / edited by Richard Holmes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Bucknell University Press : , : Copublished with Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61148-554-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HolmesRichard <1957->

Disciplina

828.5

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Principal Abbreviations Used; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; I: Scotland (1717-1723); Chapter One: Snuff; Chapter Two: Glotta; II: Dublin: Hibernicus's Letters (1724-1727); Chapter Three: Introduction to "Hibernicus"; Chapter Four: Literary Essays; Chapter Five: Literary: Horace Translations; Chapter Six: Hibernicus: The Philosophy of Francis Hutcheson; Chapter Seven: Hibernicus: Politics; Chapter Eight: Hibernicus: Religion and the Penal Laws; III: Arbuckle, The Tribune, and Swift (1728-1730); Chapter Nine: Arbuckle and Swift: The Tribune (1729)

Chapter Ten: Arbuckle and Swift: A Panegyric (1730)Appendix A; Appendix B; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This work contains a selection of James Arbuckle's poems and essays presented in a first modern scholarly edition with a biographical introduction. The work, which includes original poems, translations of Horace, satires on Swift, essays on politics, politeness and the early Scottish Enlightenment, offers new insights into early eighteenth-century British and Irish culture.