Eighteenth-Century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Philip Harth

by Howard D. Weinbrot, PETER J. SCHAKEL (Contribution by), Stephen E. Karian (Contribution by)

Overview

Eighteenth-Century Contexts offers a lively array of essays that consider literary, intellectual, political, theological, and cultural aspects of the years 1650-1800, in the British Isles and Europe. At the center of the book is Jonathan Swift; several essays delve into his poetry, his similarities to Bernard Mandeville, his response to Anthony Collins’s Discourse of Free-Thinking, and the relationship between his Gulliver’s Travels and Thomas More’s Utopia. Other essays discuss Alexander Pope, eighteenth-century music and poetry, William Congreve, James Boswell, Samuel Richardson, and women’s novels of the eighteenth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299174804
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	06/26/2001
Edition description:	1
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	x
	Phillip Harth: A Bibliography	xiv
1.	Dissonance: 1613-1798	3
2.	The "fashionable cutt of the town" and William Congreve's The Old Batchelour	26
3.	A Preface to Anglican Rationalism	44
4.	Mandeville and Swift	60
5.	What Swift Did to Collins's Discourse of Free-Thinking and Why	81
6.	Voyages to Nowhere: More's Utopia and Swift's Gulliver's Travels	96
7.	Swift's Voices: Innovation and Complication in the Poems Written at Market Hill	114
8.	Anonymity and Authority in the Poetry of Jonathan Swift	133
9.	John Barrett, "The Whimsical Medley," and Swift's Poems	147
10.	The Editing of Pope's Dunciad from Scriblerus to ***	171
11.	"What Must the World Think of Me?" Pope, Madame Dacier, and Homer--The Anatomy of a Quarrel	183
12.	Desdemona's Strawberries and Clementina's Ark: Text, Textile, and Scripture in Sir Charles Grandison	207
13.	Early Women Novelists, the Canon, and the History of the British Novel	232
14.	Talk into Text: The Shaping of Conversation in Boswell's Life of Johnson	247
15.	On Rerouting the History of British Literary Theory, 1650-1800	265
	Contributors	289
	Index	293