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Shaun Regan 
Reading 1759 
Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France

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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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Ngôn ngữ Anh ● định dạng EPUB ● Trang 246 ● ISBN 9781611484793 ● Biên tập viên Shaun Regan ● Nhà xuất bản Bucknell University Press ● Được phát hành 2012 ● Có thể tải xuống 6 lần ● Tiền tệ EUR ● TÔI 5217496 ● Sao chép bảo vệ Adobe DRM
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