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UNINA9910952335203321 |
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Autore |
Rothstein Eric |
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Titolo |
Gleaning modernity : earlier eighteenth-century literature and the modernizing process / / Eric Rothstein |
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Newark, : University of Delaware Press, c2007 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (269 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
English literature - 18th century - Criticism, Textual |
English literature - Explication |
Authors and readers - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Reader-response criticism |
Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-263) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Knowledge and the Paradigm of Man: The Nihilism of Gulliver's Travels -- Property and the Paradigm of Woman: Figura, Subjectivity, and Possession -- Consumers' Readings -- Knowledge, Virtue, and a Paragon of Woman: The Clarissa of Clarissa -- Property, Virtue, and a Paragon of Man: Pope's "Pope -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Providing original readings of such major texts as Gulliver's Travels and Clarissa, this study enlarges our sense of the Modernizing process. It also shows how a consumer-driven, Darwinian model of adaptive change, affecting literature and its readership, can help us understand the ways in which literature can have social efficacy. |
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