In and after the beginning : inaugural moments and literary institutions in the long eighteenth century /
Cope, Kevin Lee.
New York : AMS Press,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Congregating a future : John Bunyan, accumulating aphorisms, and more-than-modern science -- In search of an "empirical" system : Locke, Mandeville, and the mock-heroic enhancement of experience -- Islands, clubs, and constellations : Daniel Defoe and the Third Earl of Shaftesbury -- The beginnings of novelty : Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, Bishop George Berkeley, and the Neo-Picaresque -- Toward an environmental mode : letting nature take its authorial course in Richardson, Mackenzie, Burney, and Cowper.
English literature
English literature
Literary form
Literary form
Literature and history
Literature and history
In and after the beginning.