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This volume analyses the work of some of the period's major figures, and offers a theoretically innovative reassessment of a century of English literature.

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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.

Preromanticism

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      Publisher Stanford University Press
      Published 1 January 1994
      ISBN-13 9780804722117
      978-0804722117
      ISBN-10 0804722110

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume analyses the work of some of the period's major figures, and offers a theoretically innovative reassessment of a century of English literature.

      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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