1 option
Prose Immortality, 1711-1819 / Jacob Sider Jost.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sider Jost, Jacob, 1983- author.
- Series:
- Walker Cowen Memorial Prize
- Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English prose literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English prose literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 239 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- The afterlife and the spectator
- Night thoughts on time, fame, and immortality
- The threat to the soul in Butler and Warburton
- The beatified Clarissa
- Happy ever after in Sir Charles Grandison
- Laetitia Pilkington in sheets
- Johnson's eternal silences
- James Boswell, also, enters into heaven
- Epilogue: Keats imagines the life of Shakespeare.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-224) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813936802
- 0813936802
- OCLC:
- 890807744
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.