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Reading 1759 - Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France (Paperback)
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Reading 1759 - Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France (Paperback)
Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
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Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year
in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many
as the British "year of victories" during the Seven Years' War,
1759 was also an important year in the histories of fiction,
philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. Reading 1759 is the first book
to examine together the range of works written and published during
this crucial year. Offering broad coverage of the year's work in
writing, these essays examine key works by Johnson, Voltaire,
Sterne, Adam Smith, Edward Young, Sarah Fielding, and Christopher
Smart, along with such group projects as the Encyclopedie and the
literary review journals of the mid-eighteenth century. Organized
around a cluster of key topics, the volume reflects the concerns
most important to writers themselves in 1759. This was a year of
the new and the modern, as writers addressed current issues of
empire and ethical conduct, forged new forms of creative
expression, and grappled with the nature of originality itself.
Texts written and published in 1759 confronted the history of
Western colonialism, the problem of prostitution in a civilized
society, and the limitations of linguistic expression.
Philosophical issues were also important in 1759, not least the
thorny question of causation; while, in France, state censorship
challenged the Encyclopedie, the central Enlightenment project.
Taking into its purview such texts and intellectual developments,
Reading 1759 puts the literary culture of this singular, and
singularly important, year on the scholarly map. In the process,
the volume also provides a self-reflective contribution to the
growing body of "annualized" studies that focus on the literary
output of specific years.
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