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Title:

A concise companion to the Restoration and eighteenth century / edited by Cynthia Wall.

Publisher:

Blackwell Pub.,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

x, 284 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Literature and history--Great Britain--18th century.
Literature and history--Great Britain--17th century.
Great Britain--History--Restoration, 1660-1688
Great Britain--Civilization--18th century.
Great Britain--Civilization--17th century.

Other Authors:

Wall, Cynthia, 1959-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

1. Trade, travel and empire: "Knowing other places 1660-1800" / Miles Ogborn and Charles W. J. Withers -- 2. Scientific investigations: "Paradise regained: the rhetoric of English experimentalism" / Joanna Picciotto -- 3. Public and private: "The myth of the bourgeois public sphere" / J. A. Downie -- 4. The Streets: "Literary beggars and the reality of street life in eighteenth-century London" / Tim Hitchcock -- 5. The Sewers: Ordure, Effluence and Excess in the Eighteenth Century / Sophie Gee -- 6. The Novel: "Novels in the world of moving goods" / Deidre Shauna Lynch -- 7. The Gothic: "Moving in the world of novels" / Mark Blackwell -- 8. Gendering Texts: "'The Abuse of Title Pages': men writing as women" / Susan Staves -- 9. Drama: "Dramatic changes" / John O'Brien -- 10. Poetry: "Poetry of occasions" / J. Paul Hunter -- 11. Forms of Sublimity: The Garden, the Georgic, the Nation / Rachel Crawford -- 12. Critical History: "Literary history and literary historicism: An historiographical perspective" / Mark Salber Phillips.

Series:

Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture

ISBN:

9781405101189 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
1405101180 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9781405101172 (acid-free paper)
1405101172 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)55616348

LCCN:

2004012930

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)