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The Great Age of the English Essay - An Anthology (Paperback)
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The Great Age of the English Essay - An Anthology (Paperback)
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A collection of outstanding British periodical essays from the era
in which the genre was invented From the pens of spectators,
ramblers, idlers, tattlers, hypochondriacs, connoisseurs, and
loungers, a new literary genre emerged in eighteenth-century
England: the periodical essay. Situated between classical rhetoric
and the novel, the English essay challenged the borders between
fiction and nonfiction prose and helped forge the tastes and values
of an emerging middle class. This authoritative anthology is the
first to gather in one volume the consummate periodical essays of
the period. Included are the Spectator cofounders Joseph Addison
and Richard Steele, literary lion Samuel Johnson, and Romantic
recluse Thomas De Quincey, addressing a wide variety of topics from
the oddities of virtuosos to the private lives of parrots and the
fantastic horrors of opium dreams. In a lively and informative
introduction, Denise Gigante situates the essayists in the context
of the contemporary Republic of Letters and highlights the
stylistic innovations and conventions that distinguish the
periodical essay as a literary form. Critical notes on the essays,
a chronology, descriptions and a map of key London sites, and a
glossary of eighteenth-century English terms complete the
anthology-a uniquely pleasurable survey of the golden era of
British essays.
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