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Howard Weinbrot and the precincts of Enlightenment : the genius of every place
Title
Howard Weinbrot and the precincts of Enlightenment : the genius of every place / edited by Kevin L. Cope.
ISBN
9781611463293
1611463297
9781611463309
Publication
Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, [2024]
Physical Description
viii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
"This collection opens a panorama of essays celebrating diverse ways to participate in the British-and international-Enlightenment. Investigating major authors, unusual persons, commentators on other nations, scholars, and even early environmentalists, this volume explores the many amenable places where the confident culture of this period emerged"-- Provided by publisher.
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Online version: Howard Weinbrot and the precincts of Enlightenment Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, [2024]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 21, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : a place for genius : Howard Weinbrot and eighteenth-century studies / Kevin L. Cope
Swift's lists / J.T. Scanlan
History, myth, and heroism in Dryden's translation, the Æneis / David Venturo
Discourses of the eye : Romeo and Juliet and William Hogarth's Marriage a-la mode / Timothy Erwin
Samuel Johnson's lives of the philosophers / Robert DeMaria, Jr.
Imitation and biography : Richard Savage and the misreading of London / Lance Wilcox
Johnson's irascibles and the good work of bad stories / David Wade Nunnery
Johnson, Dodd, and the concentrated sententia / A.W. Lee
'Incipit' : pope's beginnings, original and revised / Stephen Karian
Major, minor, marginal, mummified : the lost middle years of eighteenth century canon formation in the twentieth century / James Engell
'Sublunary particularity' : religion, rhetoric, and difference / Samara Anne Cahill
Stewards of the lord : eighteenth-century gardeners as pioneers of sustainability / Bärbel Czennia
Diplomacy, diversion, and invention : Sir George Macartney at the court of Catherine the Great / Greg Clingham
Johnson and Stendhal : a French connection / Philip Smallwood
Samuel Johnson and the sense of place / Stephen Clarke
Some dreams in eighteenth-century fiction / Maximillian E. Novak
Works by Howard D. Weinbrot / compiled by Stephen Karian.
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