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The New Pelican guide to English literature: From Dryden to Johnson

Contributor(s): Ford, Boris.(Editor)Material type: Text

TextSeries: Penguin BooksPublication details: London, Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; New York, N.Y. : Penguin , 1982Edition: Rev. and expanded edDescription: 527 pISBN: 9780140138108; 0140138108Subject(s): English literature | History and criticism | Great Britain -- Intellectual life | The New Pelican guide to English literatureDDC classification: 820.9

Partial contents:

The social setting / Arthur Humphreys -- The literary scene / Arthur Humphreys -- John Dryden / Frances Noel Lees -- Restoration comedy / P.A.W. Collins -- Literature and science / C.J. Horne -- Defoe as novelist / Ian Watt -- Language 1660-1784 A.S. Collins -- The periodical essayist / Jane H. Jack -- Swift and the tradition of wit / D.W. Jefferson -- Books, readers and patrons / Pat Rogers -- Poetry in the eighteenth century / T.S. Eliot -- Alexander Pope / Norman Callan -- Integrity and dramatic life in Pope's poetry / S.L. Goldberg -- William Hogarth / V. de S. Pinto -- Samuel Richardson / Frank W. Brandbrook -- Fielding and Smollett / John Preston -- Tristram Shandy and the arts of fiction / D.W. Jefferson -- Augustan reflective poetry / Norman Callan -- Oliver Goldsmith / Boris Ford -- Shakespeare criticism / P.A.W. Collins -- William Cowper / D.J. Enright -- Samuel Johnson / Arthur Humphreys -- Architecture and landscape / Arthur Humphreys.

Summary: Sets 18th century literature in its social and intellectual context. Includes essays on John Dryden - Restoration comedy - Daniel Defoe - Jonathan Swift - Alexander Pope - William Hogarth - Samuel Richardson - Henry Fielding - Tobais Smollett - Thomas Sterne - Augustan poetry - Oliver Goldsmith - William Cowper - Samuel Johnson - Architecture.

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Originally published in 1957 in: The Pelican guide to English literature.

The social setting / Arthur Humphreys --
The literary scene / Arthur Humphreys --
John Dryden / Frances Noel Lees --
Restoration comedy / P.A.W. Collins --
Literature and science / C.J. Horne --
Defoe as novelist / Ian Watt --
Language 1660-1784 A.S. Collins --
The periodical essayist / Jane H. Jack --
Swift and the tradition of wit / D.W. Jefferson --
Books, readers and patrons / Pat Rogers --
Poetry in the eighteenth century / T.S. Eliot --
Alexander Pope / Norman Callan --
Integrity and dramatic life in Pope's poetry / S.L. Goldberg --
William Hogarth / V. de S. Pinto --
Samuel Richardson / Frank W. Brandbrook --
Fielding and Smollett / John Preston --
Tristram Shandy and the arts of fiction / D.W. Jefferson --
Augustan reflective poetry / Norman Callan --
Oliver Goldsmith / Boris Ford --
Shakespeare criticism / P.A.W. Collins --
William Cowper / D.J. Enright --
Samuel Johnson / Arthur Humphreys --
Architecture and landscape / Arthur Humphreys.

Sets 18th century literature in its social and intellectual context. Includes essays on John Dryden - Restoration comedy - Daniel Defoe - Jonathan Swift - Alexander Pope - William Hogarth - Samuel Richardson - Henry Fielding - Tobais Smollett - Thomas Sterne - Augustan poetry - Oliver Goldsmith - William Cowper - Samuel Johnson - Architecture.

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