Gleaning modernity : earlier eighteenth-century literature and the modernizing process / Eric Rothstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rothstein, Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

English literature--18th century--Criticism, Textual.

English literature--Explication.

Authors and readers--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Authors and readers.

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

Literature and society.

Reader-response criticism.

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Providing original readings of such major texts as Gulliver's Travels and Clarissa, this study enlarges our sense of the Modernizing process. It also shows how a consumer-driven, Darwinian model of adaptive change, affecting literature and its readership, can help us understand the ways in which literature can have social efficacy.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Knowledge and the Paradigm of Man: The Nihilism of Gulliver's Travels

Property and the Paradigm of Woman: Figura, Subjectivity, and Possession

Consumers' Readings

Knowledge, Virtue, and a Paragon of Woman: The Clarissa of Clarissa

Property, Virtue, and a Paragon of Man: Pope's "Pope

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-263) and index.

ISBN:

1-936249-92-8

OCLC:

629003815