Overview
- The only book currently available to cover this specific period
Uses key texts to discuss and challenge conventional ways of reading the era, particularly in relation to ideas of the public sphere
Features an annotated bibliography, chronology and a helpful section on key concepts and contexts
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction. Defining the eighteenth century: public sphere conversations
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Conversational Forms
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This essential guide defines literature of the eighteenth century as a literature written and received as public conversation. Moyra Haslett discusses and challenges conventional ways of reading the period, particularly in relation to notions of the public sphere. In her wide-ranging study, Haslett reads key texts - including The Dunciad, Gulliver's Travels and Pamela - in their literary and cultural contexts, and examines such genres as the periodical, the familiar letter, the verse epistle and the novel as textual equivalents of coterie culture.
About the author
MOYRA HASLETT lectures in the School of English at Queen's University, Belfast. Her previous publications include Marxist Literary and Cultural Theories which is also part of the Transitions series.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pope to Burney, 1714-1779
Book Subtitle: Scriblerians to Bluestockings
Authors: Moyra Haslett
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-80226-1
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2003
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 302
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: British and Irish Literature