Reading 1759 : literary culture in mid-eighteenth-century Britain and France / edited by Shaun Regan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Regan, Shaun, 1970-

Series:

Transits (Bucknell University)

Transits : literature, thought & culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Literature and society.

Books and reading.

History.

Great Britain.

Literature and society--France--History--18th century.

Books and reading--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Books and reading--France--History--18th century.

France.

Physical Description:

viii, 255 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2013]

Contents:

Part I Writing Empire

1 "What mankind has lost and gained": Johnson, Rasselas, and Colonialism / James Watt Watt, James 21

2 Voltaire's Candide as a Global Text: War, Slavery, and Leadership / Simon Davies Davies, Simon 37

Part II Sentimental Ethics, Luxurious Sexualities

3 Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759: Spectatorship, Duty, and Social Improvement / Nigel Wood Wood, Nigel 57

4 "On the soft beds of luxury most kingdoms have expired": 1759 and the Lives of Prostitutes / Mary Peace Peace, Mary 75

Part III Authorship and Aesthetics

5 young, Goldsmith, Johnson, and the Idea of the Author in 1759 / Adam Rounce Rounce, Adam 95

6 Towards a New Language: Sublime Aesthetics in Smart's Jubilate Agno / Rosalind Powell Powell, Rosalind 113

Part IV Enlightenment and its Discontents

7 The Encyclopédie in 1759: Crisis and Continuation / Rebecca Ford Ford, Rebecca 133

8 Lost Cause: Hume, Causation, and Rasselas / James Ward Ward, James 149

Part V Originality and Appropriation

9 Eccentricity, Originality, and the Novel: Tristram Shandy, volumes 1 and 2 / Moyra Haslett Haslett, Moyra 169

10 Shakespeare's "Propriety" and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Novel: Sarah Fielding's The History of the Countess of Dellwyn / Kate Rumbold Rumbold, Kate 187

VI Conclusion: Reading 1759

11 Writers, Reviewers, and the Culture of Reading / Shaun Regan Regan, Shaun 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611484786

1611484782

9781611484793

1611484790

OCLC:

798060225