LEADER 03945nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910813798403321 005 20240418010654.0 010 $a1-282-35161-3 010 $a9786612351617 010 $a0-300-15181-0 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300151817 035 $a(CKB)2430000000010715 035 $a(EBL)3421213 035 $a(OCoLC)923603567 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000297869 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11228041 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000297869 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10335025 035 $a(PQKB)11737895 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421213 035 $a(DE-B1597)485614 035 $a(OCoLC)752326737 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300151817 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421213 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10690326 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235161 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000010715 100 $a20081104d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe great age of the English essay $ean anthology /$fedited by Denise Gigante 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (464 p.) 225 1 $aLewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history 300 $a"Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund."--T.p. verso. 300 $aSeries title present only on P. 4 of pbk. cover. 311 $a0-300-11722-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. xxxi-xxxiii). 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNote on the Text -- $tIntroduction -- $tMap of Eighteenth-Century London -- $t1. Richard Steele (1672-1729) -- $t2. Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- $t3. Eliza Haywood (c. 1693-1756) -- $t4. Samuel Johnson (1709-84) -- $t5. Henry Fielding (1707-54) -- $t6. William Cowper (1731-1800) -- $t7. Oliver Goldmsith (c. 1730-74) -- $t8. James Boswell (1740-95) -- $t9. Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831) -- $t10. Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) -- $t11. William Hazlitt (1778-1830) -- $t12. Charles Lamb (1775-1834) -- $t13. Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) -- $tChronology -- $tGlossary of Places -- $tGlossary of Terms 330 $aFrom the pens of spectators, ramblers, idlers, tattlers, hypochondriacs, connoisseurs, and loungers, a new literary genre emerged in eighteenth-century England: the periodical essay. Situated between classical rhetoric and the novel, the English essay challenged the borders between fiction and nonfiction prose and helped forge the tastes and values of an emerging middle class. This authoritative anthology is the first to gather in one volume the consummate periodical essays of the period. Included are the Spectator cofounders Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, literary lion Samuel Johnson, and Romantic recluse Thomas De Quincey, addressing a wide variety of topics from the oddities of virtuosos to the private lives of parrots and the fantastic horrors of opium dreams. In a lively and informative introduction, Denise Gigante situates the essayists in the context of the contemporary Republic of Letters and highlights the stylistic innovations and conventions that distinguish the periodical essay as a literary form. Critical notes on the essays, a chronology, descriptions and a map of key London sites, and a glossary of eighteenth-century English terms complete the anthology-a uniquely pleasurable survey of the golden era of British essays. 410 0$aLewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history. 606 $aEnglish essays 606 $aEnglish language$xStyle 615 0$aEnglish essays. 615 0$aEnglish language$xStyle. 676 $a824 701 $aGigante$b Denise$f1965-$01636405 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813798403321 996 $aThe great age of the English essay$94093418 997 $aUNINA