The Eighteenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1700–1789

✍ Scribed by James Sambrook

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Leaves: 357
Series: Longman Literature in English
Edition: 2
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This is an impressive and lucid survey of eighteenth-century intellectual life, providing a real sense of the complexity of the age and of the cultural and intellectual climate in which imaginative literature flourished. It reflects on some of the dominant themes of the period, arguing against such labels as 'Augustan Age', 'Age of Enlightenment' and 'Age of Reason', which have been attached to the eighteenth-century by critics and historians.

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Movements & Periods;Ancient & Classical;Arthurian Romance;Beat Generation;Feminist;Gothic & Romantic;LGBT;Medieval;Modern;Modernism;Postmodernism;Renaissance;Shakespeare;Surrealism;Victorian;History & Criticism;Literature & Fiction;British & Irish;European;Regional & Cultural;History & Criticism;Literature & Fiction;British & Irish;Contemporary;Dramas & Plays;Historical;Horror;Humor & Satire;Literature;Poetry;Shakespeare;Literature & Fiction;Foreign Language Study & Reference;Instruction;Foreign

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