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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: McKillop, Alan Dugald, 1892-1974. English literature from Dryden to Burns. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts [1948] (OCoLC)572863259 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan Dugald McKillop |
| OCLC Number: | 350383 |
| Description: | xii, 445 p. illus., ports., maps (on lining-paper) 19 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface -- Political history (1660-1702) -- Social history (1660-1702) -- Seventeenth-century thought -- Science -- Literary types and standards -- John Dryden: Dryden's satires; Of Dramatic Poesy -- Samuel Butler -- John Oldham -- Sedley, Dorset, and Rochester -- Sir William Temple -- John Bunyan -- Samuel Pepys -- John Evelyn -- Restoration drama -- Heroic play and tragedy: Thomas Otway; Nathaniel Lee -- Comedy: George Etherege; William Wycherley; William Congreve; Sir John Vanbrugh; George Farquhar; Thomas Shadwell -- Reformation of manners -- Political history (1702-1760) -- Social history (1702-1789) -- The country and the provinces -- London life and the world of fashion -- The lower classes: philanthropy and reform -- Standards of living -- Army and navy -- Education -- Eighteenth-century thought -- Deism -- Ethics: Shaftesbury; Mandeville -- Jonathan Swift: A Tale of a Tub; Gulliver's Travels -- Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe -- Early periodicals -- Richard Steele -- Joseph Addison -- Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism; The Rape of the Lock; The Dunciad; An Essay on Man -- Bolingbroke -- John Dennis -- Mary Wortley Montagu -- Matthew Prior -- John Gay -- John Arbuthnot -- James Thomson: The Seasons -- Mark Akenside -- Edward Young -- The Church: Methodism -- Romanticism and changing taste -- William Collins -- Thomas Gray -- The Wartons -- William Shenstone -- Robert Dodsley -- Newspapers, magazines, and reviews -- The fine arts: painting, architecture, landscape gardening; William Hogarth -- Sentimentalism -- The approach to the novel -- Samuel Richardson -- Henry Fielding -- Tobias George Smollett -- Laurence Sterne -- The later novel: Fanny Burney; The novel of sentiment; Gothic and historical romance -- Eighteenth-century drama -- Tragedy: Nicholas Rowe; George Lillo -- Comedy: Colley Cibber; Steele's plays -- Pantomime and opera -- Later comedy -- Later tragedy -- David Garrick -- Shakespeare in the Restoration and eighteenth century Political history (1760-1789) -- Authors, patrons, and public -- Samuel Johnson: Rasselas; The Lives of the English Poets -- James Boswell -- Mrs. Piozzi -- Oliver Goldsmith -- The writing of history -- Edward Gibbon -- Edmund Burke -- "Junius" -- Charles Churchill -- Chesterfield -- Horace Walpole -- Christopher Smart -- Primitivism -- The medieval revival and Bishop Hurd -- James Macpherson -- Percy and the ballad revival -- Thomas Chatterton -- James Beattie -- William Cowper: The Task -- George Crabbe -- Allan Ramsay -- Scottish literature -- Robert Burns -- Minor authors. |
| Series Title: | Appleton-Century handbooks of literature |
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