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The age of Johnson 1740-1789

John Butt ; edited and completed by Geoffrey Carnall

(The Oxford history of English literature / general editors, John Buxton ... [et al.], 10)

Clarendon Press, 1990

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Reprint

"Originally published as vol. 8 with the title The mid-eighteenth century" (ISBN 0-19-812212-8) -- t.p. verso

Bibliography: p. [532]-659

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Part of the complete reissue of "The Oxford History of English Literature", this volume covers the literature of the mid-18th century, with special emphasis on the work of Samuel Johnson.

Table of Contents

  • Samuel Johnson
  • poetry 1740-1760
  • poetry 1760-1789
  • Scottish poetry
  • drama
  • history
  • travel literature, memoirs and biography
  • essays, letters, dialogues and speeches
  • four major novelists
  • other prose fiction
  • the quest for energy.

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