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Prose Immortality, 1711-1819 / Jacob Sider Jost.

Van Pelt Library PR769 .J67 2015
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Language:
English
Subjects (All):
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

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