Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

A concise companion to the Restoration and eighteenth century / / edited by Cynthia Wall



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Titolo: A concise companion to the Restoration and eighteenth century / / edited by Cynthia Wall Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Pub., , [2005]
©2005
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9005
Soggetto topico: Literature and history - Great Britain - 18th century
Literature and history - Great Britain - 17th century
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism
Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Civilization 17th century
Great Britain Civilization 18th century
Great Britain History Restoration, 1660-1688
Persona (resp. second.): WallCynthia <1959->
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 Novels
8 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; Index
Sommario/riassunto: This 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 influenced
Titolo autorizzato: A concise companion to the Restoration and eighteenth century  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-470-79392-9
1-4051-6490-5
1-78268-582-0
1-281-32109-5
9786611321093
0-470-75752-3
0-470-75749-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910830890603321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Serie: Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture.