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. Contents 5 Illustrations 7 Preface 9 Notes on Contributors 11 Pope's Essay on Man and the French Enlightenment 17 The Hero as Clown: Jonathan Wild, Felix Krull and Others 33 Richardson at Work: Revisions, Allusions, and Quotations in Clarissa 69 Rhetoric and Historiography: Tristram Shandy’s First Nine Kalendar Months 89 Henry Fielding and the English Rococo 109 An Early Theory of Genius: Alexander Gerard's Unpublished Aberdeen Lectures 129 Diderot and the Sublime: The Artist as Hero 159 Fuseli's Translations of Winckelmann: A Phase in the Rise of British Hellenism with an aside on William Blake 179 The Influence of Pierre Boyle's Defence of Toleration on the Idea of History expressed in the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique 203 Historical Scepticism in Scotland before David Hume 221 Modernisation, Mass Education and Social Mobility in French Thought, 1750–1789 239 Hawkesworth's Voyages 255 Of Silkworms and Farthingales and the Will of God 275 Swift and Satirical Typology in A Tale of a Tub 295 The Politics of Gulliver's Travels 319 Satire and Self-Expression in Swift's Tale of a Tub 339 Swift: Some Caveats 357 David Garrick, Poet of the Theatre: A Critical Survey 375 Cato in Tears: Stoical Guises of the Man of Feeling 393 Nichol Smith Collections in Edinburgh and Oxford 413 Index 427