Talking forward, talking back : critical dialogues with the Enlightenment / edited by Kevin L. Cope and Rüdiger Ahrens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cope, Kevin Lee.

Ahrens, Rüdiger, 1939-

Series:

AMS studies in the eighteenth century ; no. 35.

AMS studies in the eighteenth century ; 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature--18th century--History and criticism.

European literature.

Criticism--Europe--History--18th century.

Criticism.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xvi, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : AMS Press, [2002]

Contents:

Introduction / by Kevin L. Cope

Reading and misreading Richardson as Kant / by David Hensley

Godwin versus Malthus : reviewing in a time of apostasy / by Kenneth W. Graham

Mandeville's beehive and Smith's invisible hand : conflicting voices of ethics and economics in early industrialism / by Laurenz Volkmann

Educational concepts in eighteenth-century tractates and novels / by Heinz Antor

Literary theory and literary practice : the example of Pope / by J. Paul Hunter

Visions and revisions : the feminist rewriting of the eighteenth century / by Mona Scheuermann

Our fictions and Haywood's fictions / by Alexander Pettit

Dramatic theory in Tristram Shandy : Slawkenbergius re-consulted / by Bernfried Nugel

The intricacies and ambiguities of philosophical dialogue : the Locke/Toland case / by Pierre Lurbe

How a tempest makes a broken teapot : chaos theory and the satiric pre-construction of the future / Kevin L. Cope

The dress of thought : the imagery of Enlightenment and Romantic poetics / by Nicholas Hudson

To tune our sorrows and instruct the crowd : the cultural work of John Dryden's Threnodia Augustalis / by Anna Battigelli

Queens and courtesans / by Yasmine Gooneratne

New wine in old bottles? : the "new historicism" and the eighteenth century / Alan Downie

Afterword / by Rüdiger Ahrens.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0404635350

OCLC:

42935783