Gleaning Modernity shows how earlier eighteenth-century literary
texts might have eased the way for Britain's increasing modernity.
They allowed Modern scenarios to be played out imaginatively, as
simulations for experimental, predictive ends. The process spoke to
the needs and desires of readers in a world of rapid, managed
change. It worked unobtrusively first because of the practice of
recycling old forms, as Pope and Richardson did, for example, with
Horatian and tragic models, respectively; and second because given
texts offered different readers a range of interpretative options.
Along with providing original readings of such major texts as
Gulliver's Travels and Clarissa, this study enlarges our sense of
the Modernizing process. It also shows how a consumer-driven
Darwinian model of adaptive change, affecting literature and its
readership, can help us understand the ways in which literature can
have social efficacy.
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