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Covers a broad cross-section of eighteenth-century literary history. This book explores the intersection of literary studies with history, philosophy, psychology, and the visual arts. It discusses a range of topics, including feminism, nationalism, domestic ideology, and the classical novel-drama-lyric poetry triad.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Provocations / Marshall Brown
A Novel Nation; or, How to Rethink Modern England as an Emergent Culture / Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse
Nobody's Story: Gender, Property, and the Rise of the Novel / Catherine Gallagher
Reading Shakespeare's Novels: Literary History and Cultural Politics in the Lennox-Johnson Debate / Jonathan Brody Kramnick
Godwin and the Republican Romance / Jon Klancher
Feminine Identity Formation in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre / Jill Anne Kowalik
Mary Robinson and the Myth of Sappho / Jerome McGann
Reading the Moment and the Moment of Reading in Graffigny's Lettres d'une peruvienne / Thomas M. Kavanagh
De-familiarizing the Family; or, Writing Family History from Literary Sources / Ruth Perry
The Anxiety of Change: Reconfiguring Family Relations in Beaumarchais's Trilogy / Christie McDonald
The Eighteenth-Century Beauty Contest / Michael B. Prince
Descartes's Cogito, Kant's Sublime, and Rembrandt's Philosophers: Cultural Transmission as Occasion for Freedom / Sanford Budick
Contributors
Index

EighteenthCentury Literary History

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      Publisher Duke University Press
      Published 21 April 1999
      ISBN-13 9780822322672
      978-0822322672
      ISBN-10 822322676
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      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Covers a broad cross-section of eighteenth-century literary history. This book explores the intersection of literary studies with history, philosophy, psychology, and the visual arts. It discusses a range of topics, including feminism, nationalism, domestic ideology, and the classical novel-drama-lyric poetry triad.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction: Provocations / Marshall Brown
      A Novel Nation; or, How to Rethink Modern England as an Emergent Culture / Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse
      Nobody's Story: Gender, Property, and the Rise of the Novel / Catherine Gallagher
      Reading Shakespeare's Novels: Literary History and Cultural Politics in the Lennox-Johnson Debate / Jonathan Brody Kramnick
      Godwin and the Republican Romance / Jon Klancher
      Feminine Identity Formation in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre / Jill Anne Kowalik
      Mary Robinson and the Myth of Sappho / Jerome McGann
      Reading the Moment and the Moment of Reading in Graffigny's Lettres d'une peruvienne / Thomas M. Kavanagh
      De-familiarizing the Family; or, Writing Family History from Literary Sources / Ruth Perry
      The Anxiety of Change: Reconfiguring Family Relations in Beaumarchais's Trilogy / Christie McDonald
      The Eighteenth-Century Beauty Contest / Michael B. Prince
      Descartes's Cogito, Kant's Sublime, and Rembrandt's Philosophers: Cultural Transmission as Occasion for Freedom / Sanford Budick
      Contributors
      Index

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