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Early Eighteenth Century, 1700-40 Bonamy Dobree

Early Eighteenth Century, 1700-40 By Bonamy Dobree

Early Eighteenth Century, 1700-40 by Bonamy Dobree


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Part of the complete reissue of The Oxford History of English Literature, this volume covers the poetry, prose, drama, philosophy, criticism, history, memoirs and travel literature of the early 18th century.

Early Eighteenth Century, 1700-40 Summary

Early Eighteenth Century, 1700-40 by Bonamy Dobree

Part of the complete reissue of The Oxford History of English Literature, this volume covers the poetry, prose, drama, philosophy, criticism, history, memoirs and travel literature of the early 18th century.

Table of Contents

Part 1 1700-1720: the background - social, the ethos; Defoe to 1710; Swift to 1709; essayists and controversialists - Steele, Swift, Defoe, Arbuthnot, Addison; poetry - some forms, some poets; Pope to 1725. Part 2 1700-1740: the drama; the philosophers; critics and aestheticians; letters, memoirs, travel, historians and antiquaries. Part 3 1720-1740: Defoe 1715-1731 - the miscellaneous writer, Defoe and the novel; Swift 1715-1745 - the Irish patriot, Gulliver's Travels, the final phase; poetry 1720-1740 - Thomson, scientific verse, various trends; Pope 1725-1744.

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GOR002212570
9780198122357
0198122357
Early Eighteenth Century, 1700-40 by Bonamy Dobree
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Hardback
Oxford University Press
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