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Beckett's Eighteenth Century

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  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. Frederik N. Smith

    1. University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Frederik N. Smith
    Pages 1-9

  3. Beckett Reads the Eighteenth Century

    • Frederik N. Smith
    Pages 10-26

  4. “Hiatus in MS”: Swift and Beckett

    • Frederik N. Smith
    Pages 27-46

  5. Beckett and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

    • Frederik N. Smith
    Pages 47-67

  6. “Gentle Skimmer”: Reader Entrapment in Swift, Fielding, Sterne, and Beckett

    • Frederik N. Smith
    Pages 68-89

  7. Beckett’s Literary Gerontophilia

    • Frederik N. Smith
    Pages 90-109

  8. “My Johnson Fantasy”

    • Frederik N. Smith
    Pages 110-131

  9. Pope, Beckett, and the Aesthetics of Decay

    • Frederik N. Smith
    Pages 132-155

  10. Conclusion

    • Frederik N. Smith
    Pages 156-164

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 165-219
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Beckett's Eighteenth Century is the first book-length study of Samuel Beckett's affinity with the British eighteenth century and of the influence of its writers on his work. Reading Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, Johnson, Gray, and other writers of this period, this study demonstrates how he was not only influenced by them but interprets them for us in a quite modern way. Beckett's uniqueness is not questioned here, but this uniqueness is shown, paradoxically, to have its roots at least in part in his native literature of two centuries ago.

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'...a convincing and detailed study...Stimulating, meticulously researched, Beckett's Eighteenth Century is the first book-length study of Beckett's involvement with eighteenth-century literature and argues convincingly that part of his originality is derived precisely from his study of these writers.' - Times Literary Supplement

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  • University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

    Frederik N. Smith

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FREDERIK SMITH is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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