Author : Moyra Haslett
Release : 2017-03-14
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 586/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Pope to Burney, 1714-1779 by : Moyra Haslett
Download or read book Pope to Burney, 1714-1779 written by Moyra Haslett. This book was released on 2017-03-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential guide defines literature of the eighteenth century as a literature written and received as public conversation. Moyra Haslett discusses and challenges conventional ways of reading the period, particularly in relation to notions of the public sphere. In her wide-ranging study, Haslett reads key texts - including The Dunciad, Gulliver's Travels and Pamela - in their literary and cultural contexts, and examines such genres as the periodical, the familiar letter, the verse epistle and the novel as textual equivalents of coterie culture.