Essays in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
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Essays in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

  1. 258 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Essays in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

About this book

This volume contains a selection of the major essays written over a period of three decades by a distinguished scholar of eighteenth-century English literature. In each essay, Professor Landa attempts to show how cultural and intellectual assumptions and presuppositions of the age have been assimilated into the literary works.

Originally published in 1980.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Swift's Economic Views and Mercantilism
  6. A Modest Proposal and Populousness
  7. Jonathan Swift and Charity
  8. Jonathan Swift: "Not The Gravest of Divines"
  9. Swift, the Mysteries, and Deism
  10. Swift's Deanery Income
  11. Jonathan Swift
  12. The Shandean Homunculus: The Background of Sterne's "Little Gentleman"
  13. Johnson's Feathered Man: "A Dissertation on the Art of Flying" Considered
  14. Pope's Belinda, the General Emporie of the World, and the Wondrous Worm
  15. Of Silkworms and Farthingales and the Will of God
  16. London Observed: The Progress of a Simile
  17. Index