1st Edition
The Eighteenth Century The Context of English Literature
Edited By Pat Rogers
Copyright 1978
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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The aim of this book, originally published in 1978, is to make the reading of literary classics such as Gulliver’s Travels , Robinson Crusoe , Tom Jones , The Beggar’s Opera and Tristram Shandy an even richer experience by giving them an intelligible place in history. The ‘context’ is seen not as a vague backcloth, but as a living fabric of ideas and events which animate Augustan... Read more
Illustrations. Table of Dates. 1. Introduction: The Writer and Society Pat Rogers 2. Politics W.A. Speck 3. Religion and Ideas John Valdimir Price 4. Science G.S. Rousseau 5. The Visual Arts Peter Willis. Index
Biography
Pat Rogers (Ed.)
