| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
xii, 399 pages : illustrations (part color), facsimile ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Contents |
View from Pisgah -- From Arcadia to Mount Zion -- Man on an island (Daniel Defoe) -- Saeva indignatio (Jonathan Swift) -- Virtue rewarded (Samuel Richardson) -- Sex in the eighteenth-century perspective -- A manly man (Henry Fielding) -- Sad dogs and saints (Tobias Smollett) -- Sentimentalism: a literary epidemic -- 1750: retrospect and prospect -- A fellow of infinite jest (Laurence Sterne) -- The later sentimentalists (Goldsmith and Mackenzie) -- A young lady's entrance into the world (Frances Burney) -- Oriental romance (Johnson and Beckford) -- The Gothic romance (Walpole, An Radcliffe, Lewis) -- An eighteenth-century Shaw (Robert Bage) -- Social justice (Holcroft, Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft) -- End of a century (principally Maria Edgeworth) -- And Jane Austen. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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