Author: John ArbuthnotPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Memoirs of the extraordinary life, works and discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus
Author: John ArbuthnotMemoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus
Author: John ArbuthnotThe Works of Alexander Pope, Esq
Author: Alexander PopePublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus
Author: Charles Kerby-MillerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus
Author: Alexander PopeMemoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus
Author: Alexander PopeThe Works
Author: Alexander PopeLabyrinth of Digressions
Author: René BoschPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042022914
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
With their appearance during the 1760s, the five instalments of Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman caused something like a booksellers' hype. Small publishers and anonymous imitators seized on Sterne's success by bringing out great numbers of spurious new volumes, critical or ironic pamphlets, and works that in style and title express a congeniality with Tristram Shandy. This study explores these eighteenth-century imitations as indicators of contemporary assumptions about Sterne's intentions. Comparisons between the original, the first reactions, and a number of late eighteenth-century imitations, show that Tristram Shandy was initially read against the background of Augustan and Grub-street satire. The earliest imitators harked back to traditions of banter and folklore, bawdy and grotesque humour, pathetic stories and orthodox religiosity, reaffirming a pattern of moral and aesthetic values that was conservative for its time. Philosophical Sentimentalism appears to have been a late development. It is also argued that, partly because of their bad reputation, some of the authors of forgeries and parodies had a greater influence on the original than the reviewers to whom Sterne is often said to have listened. The imitators followed leads and themes in the first instalments, developing them according to their own conception of Sterne's project and the reasons for his success. As a consequence, they unintentially put a pressure on Sterne to alter his course, and even to abandon some of the narrative lines and themes he had set out for himself. The literature section contains a chronological checklist of English eighteenth-century Sterneana.
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
Author: Roger D. LundPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317722833
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
An extremely complex, yet widely studied text, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels ranks as one of the most scathing satires of British and European society ever published. Students will therefore welcome the publication of Roger Lund’s sourcebook, which provides a clear way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surounds the text. This indispensable guide presents: extensive introductory comment on the contexts and many interpretations of the text, from publication to present annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Gudies to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Swift’s controversial novel.
Re-Viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809
Author: A.A. MarkleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317063678
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Thomas Holcroft was a central figure of the 1790s, whose texts played an important role in the transition toward Romanticism. In this, the first essay collection devoted to his life and work, the contributors reassess Holcroft's contributions to a remarkable range of literary genres-drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography, political philosophy-and to the project of revolutionary reform in the late eighteenth century. The self-educated son of a cobbler, Holcroft transformed himself into a popular playwright, influential reformist novelist, and controversial political radical. But his work is not important merely because he himself was a remarkable character, but rather because he was a hinge figure between laboring Britons and the dissenting intelligentsia, between Enlightenment traditions and developing 'Romantic' concerns, and between the world of self-made hack writers and that of established critics. Enhanced by an updated and corrected chronology of Holcroft's life and work, key images, and a full bibliography of published scholarship, this volume makes way for more concerted and focused scholarship and teaching on Holcroft. Taken together, the essays in this collection situate Holcroft's self-fashioning as a member of London's literati, his central role among the London radical reformers and intelligentsia, and his theatrical innovations within ongoing explorations of the late eighteenth-century public sphere of letters and debate.