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Since the publication of his novel 'Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded in 1740', Samuel Richardson's place in the English literary tradition has been secured. But how can that place best be described? Over the three centuries since embarking on his printing career the 'divine' novelist …
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Table -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Theorizing Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond -- 1 "A System of Oeconomical Prudence": Shakespearean Character and the Pr…
"In 1700, Shakespeare was viewed as one of the leading Renaissance playwrights, but not as supreme. By 1800, he was not only widely performed and read but celebrated as a universal genius and a national literary hero. What happened during the intervening years is the subject of …
"In 1700, Shakespeare was viewed as one of the leading Renaissance playwrights, but not as supreme. By 1800, he was not only widely performed and read but celebrated as a universal genius and a national literary hero. What happened during the intervening years is the subject of …
"In the mid-eighteenth century, Sarah Fielding (1710-68) was the second most popular English woman novelist, rivalled only by Eliza Haywood. The History of Ophelia, the last of her seven novels, is an often comic epistolary fiction, narrated by the heroine to an unnamed female c…
Icons, texts, icontexts: essays on ekphrasis and intermediality
by Sabor, Peter, Burwick, Frederick, Wagner, Peter, Pape, Walter, Ette, Ottmar, Bindman, David, Dubost, Jean-Pierre, Fort, Bernardette, Montandon, Alain, Cusset, Catherine, Ogée, Frédéric, Paulson, Ronald, Lottes, Wolfgang, Heffernan, James
fromEuropean cultures: studies in literature and the arts
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Examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.
