Urban Enlightenment and the Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essay [electronic resource] : Transatlantic Retrospects /
Squibbs, Richard.author.
Urban Enlightenment offers the first literary history of the British periodical essay spanning the entire eighteenth century, and the first to study the genre's development and cultural impact in a transatlantic context.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Reviewing a Genre; 2 London's Characters; 3 Characters of the Age; 4 Public Prospects; 5 Scottish Variations; 6 Federalist Revisions; 7 Irving's Knickerbocker in Retrospect; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Urban Enlightenment offers the first literary history of the British periodical essay spanning the entire eighteenth century, and the first to study the genre's development and cultural impact in a transatlantic context.
Literature-Philosophy.
Literature, Modern.
Fiction.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-18th century.
Literary Theory.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.