Studies in the eighteenth century ; II : papers presented at the second David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra, 1970

This volume presents an array of studies on many aspects of the eighteenth century: on the novel, history, the history of ideas, drama, poetry and sentimentality. The essays are as diverse as ‘Pope’s Essays on Man and the French Enlightenment’ and ‘Of Silk-worms and Farthingales and the Will of God.’ One group is concerned with the works and ideas of Bayle, Alexander Gerard, Diderot, Fuseli, Hawkesworth and Swift among others. The essays are the work of leading scholars for many disciplines and were presented at the Second David Nichol Smith Seminar; together they reflect some of the liveliest and most up-to-date trends in the present reexamination of the period. The book will be invaluable to all students of the literature, thought, and civilisation of the eighteenth century. MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict Cover 1 Contents 6 Preface 10 Notes on Contributors 12 Illustrations 8 Pope's Essay on Man and the French Enlightenment 18 The Hero as Clown: Jonathan Wild, Felix Krull, and Others 34 Richardson at Work: Revisions, Allusions, and Quotations in Clarissa 70 Rhetoric and Historiography: Tristram Shandy's First Nine Kalendar Months 90 Henry Fielding and the English Rococo 112 An Early Theory of Genius: Alexander Gerard's Unpublished Aberdeen Lectures 134 Diderot and the Sublime: the Artist as Hero 164 Fuseli's Translations of Winckelmann: a Phase in the Rise of British Hellenism, with an Aside on William Blake 186 The Influence of Pierre Bayle's Defence of Toleration on the Idea of History expressed in the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique 212 Historical Scepticism in Scotland before David Hume 230 Modernisation, Mass Education, and Social Mobility in French Thought 1750-1789 248 Hawkesworth's Voyages 264 Of Silkworms and Farthingales and the Will of God 284 Swift and Satirical Typology in A Tale of a Tub 304 The Politics of Gulliver's Travels 328 Satire and Self-Expression in Swift's Tale of a Tub 348 Swift: Some Caveats 366 David Garrick, Poet of the Theatre: A Critical Survey 384 Cato in Tears: Stoical Guises of the Man of Feeling 402 Nichol Smith Collections in Edinburgh and Oxford 422 Index 436 A 436 B 436 C 437 D 438 E 438 F 438 G 439 H 439 I 440 J 440 K 440 L 440 M 441 N 441 O 441 P 441 Q 442 R 442 S 442 T 443 U 444 V 444 W 444 Y 444 Z 444