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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Claude Julien Rawson |
ISBN: | 0300079168 9780300079166 |
OCLC Number: | 298444772 |
Notes: | Repr. with corrections. - Originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994. |
Description: | xvi, 309 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. Rochester; 2. Oldham; 3. Mock-heroic and war. Part I: Swift, Pope and others; 4. Mock-heroic and war. Part II: Byron, Shelley and heroic discredit; 5. Revolution in the moral wardrobe - mutations of an image from Dryden to Burke; 6. The Tatler and Spectator; 7. Richardson, alas; 8. Boswell's life and journals; 9. Boswell's Life of Johnson; 10. Dining out in Paris and London: Thomas Moore's journal; 11. Satire, sensibility, and innovation in Jane Austen - "Persuasion" and the minor works. |
Responsibility: | Claude Rawson. |
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"Rawson is himself an Augustan among critics, expressing worlds of scholarship with a pungent and delightful humanism." Donald Lyons, New Criterion "A luxuriant hybrid of keen literary criticism and well-documented cultural history...This ranging synthesis of a reeling world is mind-expanding for critics and historians, specialists and generalists." Kenneth Craven, Scriblerian "Rawson's book shows that there is considerable life and interest left in relatively traditional literary history." Charles A. Knight, Eighteenth-Century Studies "Rawson marshals an army of erudite references from Statius to Maller to illuminate the major figures: Swift, Pope, Burke, Byron, and Shelley. His conversational style is wide-ranging in the best Augustan essay-mode." Laura L. Runge, Albion Read more...


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