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This selection of poetry draws on different aspects of the poet's
career to offer a comprehensive picture. It includes Churchill's
most acclaimed and substantial poems, "The Prophecy of Famine," "An
Epistle to William Hogarth," and "The Dedication to the Sermons."
Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the
unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable
man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished
eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements,
professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking
as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip
Smallwood examines the “mirrored minds” of Johnson and
Shakespeare, while David Hopkins parses intersections of the
general and particular in three key eighteenth-century figures.
Aaron Hanlon draws parallels between instances of physical rambling
and rhetorical strategies in Johnson’s Rambler, while Cedric D.
Reverand dissects the intertextual strands uniting Dryden and Pope.
Contributors take up other topics significant to the field,
including post-feminism, travel, and seismology. Whether discussing
cultural exchange or textual reciprocities, each piece extends the
theme, building on the trope of relationship to organize and
express its findings. Rounding out this collection are tributes
from Clingham’s former students and colleagues, including
original poetry.
This latest volume of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of
Jonathan Swift is the first fully annotated edition of Swift's
Irish prose writings from 1726 to 1737. Works in this volume
include the famous A Modest Proposal, the acerbic A Short View of
the State of Ireland, Swift's contributions to The Intelligencer,
and other prose pieces of satire, polemic and intervention into
contemporary Irish politics. Most of these works have never
previously been published with full scholarly annotation, or with a
complete and textually authoritative apparatus. This volume offers
a comprehensive introduction, setting Swift's writings of the
period into their full historical, political and economic context.
In addition to a critical introduction and appendices, there is
also an up-to-date bibliography. The volume enables Swift's role as
a political and social commentator in the years after the
publication of Gulliver's Travels to be understood with new
clarity.
Recent years have witnessed a growing fascination with the printed
annotations accompanying eighteenth-century texts. Previous studies
of annotation have revealed the margins as dynamic textual spaces
both shaping and shaped by diverse aesthetic, historical, and
political sensibilities. Yet previous studies have also been
restricted to notes by or for canonical figures; they have
neglected annotation's relation to developments in reading
audiences and the book trade; and they have overlooked the
interaction, even tension, between prose notes and poetry, a
tension reflecting eighteenth-century views of poetry as
aesthetically superior to prose. Annotation in Eighteenth-Century
Poetry addresses these oversights through a substantial
introduction and eleven essays analyzing the printed endnotes and
footnotes accompanying poems written or annotated between 1700 and
1830. Drawing on methods and critical developments in book history
and print culture studies, this collection explores the functions
that annotation performed on and through the printed page. By
analyzing the annotation specific to poetry, these essays clarify
the functions of notes among the other paratexts, including
illustrations, by which scholars have mapped poetry's relation to
the expanding book trade and the class-specific production of
different formats. Because the reading and writing of poetry
boasted social and pedagogical functions that predate the rise of
the note as a print technology, studying the relation of notes to
poetry also reveals how the evolving layout of the
eighteenth-century book wrought significant changes not only on
reading practices and reception, but on the techniques that
booksellers used to make new poems, steady-sellers, and antiquarian
discoveries legible to new readers. Above all, analyzing notes in
poetry volumes contributes to larger inquiries into canon formation
and the rise of literary studies as a discipline in the eighteenth
century.
Recent years have witnessed a growing fascination with the printed
annotations accompanying eighteenth-century texts. Previous studies
of annotation have revealed the margins as dynamic textual spaces
both shaping and shaped by diverse aesthetic, historical, and
political sensibilities. Yet previous studies have also been
restricted to notes by or for canonical figures; they have
neglected annotation's relation to developments in reading
audiences and the book trade; and they have overlooked the
interaction, even tension, between prose notes and poetry, a
tension reflecting eighteenth-century views of poetry as
aesthetically superior to prose. Annotation in Eighteenth-Century
Poetry addresses these oversights through a substantial
introduction and eleven essays analyzing the printed endnotes and
footnotes accompanying poems written or annotated between 1700 and
1830. Drawing on methods and critical developments in book history
and print culture studies, this collection explores the functions
that annotation performed on and through the printed page. By
analyzing the annotation specific to poetry, these essays clarify
the functions of notes among the other paratexts, including
illustrations, by which scholars have mapped poetry's relation to
the expanding book trade and the class-specific production of
different formats. Because the reading and writing of poetry
boasted social and pedagogical functions that predate the rise of
the note as a print technology, studying the relation of notes to
poetry also reveals how the evolving layout of the
eighteenth-century book wrought significant changes not only on
reading practices and reception, but on the techniques that
booksellers used to make new poems, steady-sellers, and antiquarian
discoveries legible to new readers. Above all, analyzing notes in
poetry volumes contributes to larger inquiries into canon formation
and the rise of literary studies as a discipline in the eighteenth
century.
Adam Rounce presents a colourful and unusual history of
eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas of fame
through writers who failed to achieve the literary success they so
desired. Recounting the experiences of less canonical writers,
including Richard Savage, Anna Seward and Percival Stockdale,
Rounce discusses the inefficacy of apparent literary success, the
forms of vanity and folly often found in failed authorship, and the
changing perception of literary reputation from the beginning of
the eighteenth century to the emergence of Romanticism. The book
opens up new ways of thinking about the nature of literary success
and failure, given the post-Romantic idea of the doomed creative
genius, and provides an alternative narrative to critical accounts
of the famous and successful.
During the last half of the eighteenth century, sensibility and its
less celebrated corollary sense were subject to constant variation,
critique, and contestation in ways that raise profound questions
about the formation of moral identities and communities. Beyond
Sense and Sensibility addresses those questions. What authority
does reason retain as a moral faculty in an age of sensibility? How
reliable or desirable is feeling as a moral guide or a test of
character? How does such a focus contribute to moral isolation and
elitism or, conversely, social connectedness and inclusion? How can
we distinguish between that connectedness and a disciplinary
socialization? How do insensible processes contribute to our moral
formation and action? What alternatives lie beyond the
anthropomorphism implied by sense and sensibility? Drawing
extensively on philosophical thought from the eighteenth century as
well as conceptual frameworks developed in the twenty-first
century, this volume of essays examines moral formation represented
in or implicitly produced by a range of texts, including Boswell's
literary criticism, Fergusson's poetry, Burney's novels,
Doddridge's biography, Smollett's novels, Charlotte Smith's
children's books, Johnson's essays, Gibbon's history, and
Wordsworth's poetry. The distinctive conceptual and textual breadth
of Beyond Sense and Sensibility yields a rich reassessment and
augmentation of the two perspectives summarized by the terms sense
and sensibility in later eighteenth-century Britain.
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