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This volume seeks the common ground of British literature from 1740 to 1798 not in the foreshadowing of Romanticism but in incomplete discoveries and in impediments to expression that Romanticism was to lift.

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"This is a major achievement, an artfully written and carefully articulated contribution to the theory of literary history, and a powerful interpretation of eighteenth-century literature with which all scholars in the field will have to contend."—Philosophy and Literature

Table of Contents
Introduction 1. On textual production 2. The urbane sublime 3. Transcendental aesthetics 4. The discovery of consciousness 5. The economy of sensibility 6. Goldsmith's endings 7. The Vicar of Wakefield 8. She Stoops to Conquer 9. Sheridan's semiotics 10. Beaumarchais's stagecraft 11. Sterne's stories 12. Wordsworth's old gray stone 13. Touchstones Notes Index.

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 01/06/1991
      ISBN13: 9780804715614, 978-0804715614
      ISBN10: 0804715610
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      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume seeks the common ground of British literature from 1740 to 1798 not in the foreshadowing of Romanticism but in incomplete discoveries and in impediments to expression that Romanticism was to lift.

      Trade Review
      "This is a major achievement, an artfully written and carefully articulated contribution to the theory of literary history, and a powerful interpretation of eighteenth-century literature with which all scholars in the field will have to contend."—Philosophy and Literature

      Table of Contents
      Introduction 1. On textual production 2. The urbane sublime 3. Transcendental aesthetics 4. The discovery of consciousness 5. The economy of sensibility 6. Goldsmith's endings 7. The Vicar of Wakefield 8. She Stoops to Conquer 9. Sheridan's semiotics 10. Beaumarchais's stagecraft 11. Sterne's stories 12. Wordsworth's old gray stone 13. Touchstones Notes Index.

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