Essays in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

✍ Scribed by Louis A. Landa

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 251
• Series: Princeton Series of Collected Essays; 5086
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume contains a selection of the major essays written over a period of three decades by a distinguished scholar of eighteenth-century English literature. In each essay, Professor Landa attempts to show how cultural and intellectual assumptions and presuppositions of the age have been assimilated into the literary works.

Originally published in 1980.

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✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
Swift’s Economic Views and Mercantilism
A Modest Proposal and Populousness
Jonathan Swift and Charity
Jonathan Swift: “Not the Gravest of Divines”
Swift, the Mysteries, and Deism
Swift’s Deanery Income
Jonathan Swift
The Shandean Homunculus: The Background of Sterne’s “Little Gentleman”
Johnson’s Feathered Man: “A Dissertation on the Art of Flying” Considered
Pope’s Belinda, The General Emporie of the World, and the Wondrous Worm
Of Silkworms and Farthingales and the Will of God
London Observed: The Progress of a Simile
Index