Order from Confusion Sprung

Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature from Swift to Cowper
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-138-61314-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

Originally published in 1985, Order From Confusion Sprung brings together some of Claude Rawson's more important essays and articles on eighteenth-century subjects, most belong to the last decade or so, but a few earlier pieces have also been included. Swift, Pope and Fielding are extensively treated, and there are discussions of Johnson, Boswell, Cowper, as well as some authors of the so-called Sentimental School. The volume also contains reappraisals of the concepts underlying such terms as 'neo-classic' and 'Augustan' in their application to eighteenth-century literature, and comments forthrightly on prevailing trends in the academic study of the subject in the last two decades.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rawson, Claude

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Acknowledgments Texts and Editions Used Part I: Swift 1. The Characters of Swift’s Satire: Reflections on Swift, Johnson, and Human Restlessness 2. Gulliver’s Travels and Some Modern Fictions 3. A Reading of A Modest Proposal Part II: Swift, Pope and Augustan Verse Satire 4. Swifts Poems 5. Slaughtering Satire 6. Pope’s Waste Land: Reflections on Mock-Heroic 7. Pope’s ‘Opus Magnum’ and An Essay on Man 8. ‘Neo-classic’ and ‘Augustan’ Part III: Fielding 9. Dialogue and Authorial Presence in Fielding’s Novels and Plays 10. A Journal From This World to the Next 11. Empson’s Tom Jones Part IV: Others 12. Notes on ‘Delicacy’ 13. p -ious Boswell 14. William Cowper and Christopher Smart Part V: Appendix 15. More Providence than Wit: Some Recent Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Literature Index