Essai sur l'étude de la littérature ; and, An essay on the study of literature

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Essai sur l'étude de la littérature ; and, An essay on the study of literature

Edward Gibbon ; with a new introduction by John Valdimir Price

(Foundations of literary theory : the eighteenth century)

Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1994

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An essay on the study of literature

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French part: Reprint of the 1777 ed., Guillaume Hallhead, Dublin

English part: Reptint of the 1764 ed., printed for T. Becket, London

Includes bibliographical references

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Description

It was the eighteenth century that saw the development of literary theory into a subject of enquiry in its own right. As a result it is naturally the period to which scholars and critics turn when investigating the origin and nature of theories about literature. The study of literary theory has now become a major field of intellectual and critical study.

Table of Contents

  • The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry [1704] John Dennis 128pp An Essay on Original Genius [1767] William Duff 296pp An Essay on the Study of Literature [1764] Edward Gibbon 168pp Observations on Poetry, Especially the Epic: Occasioned by the Late Poem upon Leonidas [1738] Henry Pemberton 182pp A Short View of Tragedy
  • It's Original, Excellency, and Corruption. [1693] Thomas Rymer 182pp Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford [1742] Joseph Trapp 358pp

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