"Eighteenth-century literature issue. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Bunyan's two valleys: a note on the ecumenic element in Pilgrim's progress / Elmo Howell -- London stage embattled: 1695-1710 / Calhoun Winton -- Apparent contraries: a reading of Swift's "A description of a city shower" / John I. Fischer -- Swift and Stella: the love poems / James L. Tyne -- Belinda's "painted vessel": allusive technique in The rape of the lock / Wolfgang E.H. Rudat -- Imaginary islands and real beasts: the imaginative Genesis of Robinson Crusoe / Maximillian E. Novak -- Family, conversion, and the self in Jonathan Edwards' A faithful narrative of the surprising work of God / William J. Scheick -- Comic celebrant of life in Tom Jones / William B. Guthrie -- Thomas Gray's "Sonnet on the death of Richard West": the circumstances and the diction / Judith K. Moore -- Importance of voice: Gray's Elegy / Richard P. Sugg -- Samuel Johnson's Irene: "An elaborate curiosity" / Philip T. Clayton -- Johnson as satirical traveler: A journey to the western islands of Scotland / Donald T. Siebert, Jr. -- Christmas tale, or, harlequin scene painter / Ralph G. Allen -- Blake's "the lamb": the punctuation of innocence / Jim S. Borck.
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