04079nam 2200817 a 450 991014556960332120210209195134.00-470-79392-91-4051-6490-51-78268-582-01-281-32109-597866113210930-470-75752-30-470-75749-3(CKB)1000000000410644(EBL)350901(OCoLC)476169545(SSID)ssj0000128271(PQKBManifestationID)11139814(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000128271(PQKBWorkID)10063959(PQKB)10697799(MiAaPQ)EBC350901(MiAaPQ)EBC4956340(Au-PeEL)EBL4956340(CaONFJC)MIL132109(OCoLC)1027181242(MiAaPQ)EBC7076248(Au-PeEL)EBL7076248(EXLCZ)99100000000041064420040602d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA concise companion to the Restoration and eighteenth century[electronic resource] /edited by Cynthia Wall1st ed.Malden, MA Blackwell Pub.20051 online resource (296 p.)Blackwell concise companions to literature and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.1-4051-0118-0 1-4051-0117-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Travel, Trade, and Empire: Knowing other Places, 1660-1800; 2 Scientific Investigations: Experimentalism and Paradisal Return; 3 Public and Private: The Myth of the Bourgeois Public Sphere; 4 The Streets: Literary Beggars and the Realities of Eighteenth-Century London; 5 The Sewers: Ordure, Effluence, and Excess in the Eighteenth Century; 6 The Novel: Novels in the World of Moving Goods; 7 The Gothic: Moving in the World of Novels8 Gendering Texts: "The Abuse of Title Pages": Men Writing as Women9 Drama: Genre, Gender, Theater; 10 Poetry: The Poetry of Occasions; 11 Forms of Sublimity: The Garden, the Georgic, and the Nation; 12 Criticism: Literary History and Literary Historicism; IndexThis 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. Searches out connections between the remarkable number of new genres that appeared in the eighteenth century. Crosses conventional disciplinary lines. Demonstrates that philosophy, history, politics and social theory both influence and are influencedBlackwell concise companions to literature and culture.English literature18th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismLiterature and historyGreat Britain18th centuryLiterature and historyGreat Britain17th centuryGreat BritainHistoryRestoration, 1660-1688Great BritainCivilization18th centuryGreat BritainCivilization17th centuryElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and historyLiterature and history820.9005820.9006Wall Cynthia1959-941097MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910145569603321A concise companion to the Restoration and eighteenth century2122409UNINA