The mid-eighteenth century / by John Butt ; edited and completed by Geoffrey Carnall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butt, John, 1906-1965.

Contributor:

Carnall, Geoffrey.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Oxford history of English literature ; v. 8.

The Oxford history of English literature ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 671 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : At the Clarendon Press ; [New York] : [Oxford University Press], 1979.

Contents:

Introduction

Samuel Johnson

Poetry 1740-1760

Poetry 1760-1789

Scottish Poetry

Drama

History

Travel literature, Memoirs, and Biography

Essays, Letters, Dialogues, and Speeches

Four Major Novelists

Other Prose Fiction

Conclusion: The Quest for Energy.

Notes:

"In additon to Chapter VII, I am responsible for the following sections of the book: Chapter VIII, except for the final section, dealing with Boswell's Life of Johnson; the section on dialogue in Chapter IX; the section on Sterne in Chapter X (except for a paragraph on page 444); Chapters XI and XII; and the chronological tables."--Preface. sign G. C.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [532]-659) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1980".

ISBN:

0198122128 :

OCLC:

4593292