Facets of the Enlightenment : Studies in English Literature and Its Contexts / Bertrand H. Bronson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bronson, Bertrand Harris, 1902-1986, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley ; Los Angeles, California : The Regents of the University of California, [1968]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

1. When Was Neoclassicism?

2. Who Now Reads Prior?

3. The True Proportions of Gay's Acis and Galatea

4. The Beggar's Opera

5. Some Aspects of Music and Literature

6. Personification Reconsidered

7. On a Special Decorum in Gray's Elegy

8. The Pre-Romantic or Post-Augustan Mode

9. A Sense of the Past: The Percy Correspondence

10. Thomas Chatterton

11. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell

12. Johnson's Shakespeare

13. Walking Stewart

14. Strange Relations: The Author and His Audience

15. Printing as an Index of Taste

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520330535

0520330536

OCLC:

1149466972