LEADER 03808nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910822537603321 005 20230725031426.0 010 $a0-674-06100-4 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674061002 035 $a(CKB)2670000000095385 035 $a(OCoLC)733048566 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10478458 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000525370 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11355997 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525370 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10507906 035 $a(PQKB)10824169 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300946 035 $a(DE-B1597)178232 035 $a(OCoLC)840446672 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674061002 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300946 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10478458 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000095385 100 $a20100813d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRichard Bentley$b[electronic resource] $epoetry and enlightenment /$fKristine Louise Haugen 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (344 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-05871-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tIntroduction --$tChapter One. Before Bentley --$tChapter Two. London in the 1680's --$tChapter Three. Bentley in Oxford --$tChapter Four. Into the Drawing Room --$tChapter Five. Rewriting Horace --$tChapter Six. The Measure of All Things --$tChapter Seven. Bentley's New Testament --$tChapter Eight. Interlopers and Interpolators --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aWhat made the classical scholar Richard Bentley deserve to be so viciously skewered by two of the literary giants of his day-Jonathan Swift in the Battle of the Books and Alexander Pope in the Dunciad? The answer: he had the temerity to bring classical study out of the scholar's closet and into the drawing rooms of polite society. Kristine Haugen's highly engaging biography of a man whom Rhodri Lewis characterized as "perhaps the most notable-and notorious-scholar ever to have English as a mother tongue" affords a fascinating portrait of Bentley and the intellectual turmoil he set in motion. Aiming at a convergence between scholarship and literary culture, the brilliant, caustic, and imperious Bentley revealed to polite readers the doings of professional scholars and induced them to pay attention to classical study. At the same time, Europe's most famous classical scholar adapted his own publications to the deficiencies of non-expert readers. Abandoning the church-oriented historical study of his peers, he worked on texts that interested a wider public, with spectacular and-in the case of his interventionist edition of Paradise Lost-sometimes lamentable results. If the union of worlds Bentley craved was not to be achieved in his lifetime, his provocations show that professional humanism left a deep imprint on the literary world of England's Enlightenment. 606 $aCivilization, Classical$xStudy and teaching$zEngland$xHistory 606 $aClassicists$zGreat Britain 606 $aCriticism, Textual$xHistory 606 $aLearning and scholarship$zEngland$xHistory 615 0$aCivilization, Classical$xStudy and teaching$xHistory. 615 0$aClassicists 615 0$aCriticism, Textual$xHistory. 615 0$aLearning and scholarship$xHistory. 676 $a880.9 686 $a18.41$2bcl 700 $aHaugen$b Kristine Louise$f1973-$01682103 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822537603321 996 $aRichard Bentley$94051970 997 $aUNINA