In and after the beginning : inaugural moments and literary institutions in the long eighteenth century
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In and after the beginning : inaugural moments and literary institutions in the long eighteenth century
(AMS studies in the eighteenth century, no. 57)
AMS Press, c2007
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In and after the beginning : inaugural moments and literary institutions in the long 18th century
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Much literature of the long eighteenth century does not neatly enter into a plot at page one and proceed chronologically and causally toward a conclusion, with the linearity of a Victorian novel. Eighteenth-century fictions can begin almost anywhere, with characters who come and go mid-tale and interpolated plots that start amid other events. This is as true of the ephemera of the period, the under-appreciated genre such as heroic drama, prose rhapsody, digest, ballad, joke anthology, and spiritual exegesis, as it is of the major works. Digression and miscellaneousness also characterize Cowper's ""The Task"", Swift's ""Tale of a Tub"", and Fielding's ""Tom Jones"". Such dispersiveness is also symptomatic of an Augustan world view in which anything and everything can be a beginning.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Congregating a Future: John Bunyan, Accumulating Aphorisms, and More-than-Modern Science
- 2. In Search of an ""Empirical"" System: Locke, Mandeville, and the Mock-Heroic Enhancement of Experience
- 3. Islands, Clubs, and Constellations: Daniel Defoe and the Third Earl of Shaftesbury
- 4. The Beginnings of Novelty: Henry Fielding, TobiaS Smollett, Bishop George Berkeley, and the Neo-Picaresque
- 5. Toward an Environmental Mode: Letting Nature Take Its Authorial Course in Richardson, Mackenzie, Burney, and Cowper.
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