The English hero, 1660-1800
Folkenflik, Robert,1939-
Newark University of Delaware Press London Associated University Presses
c1982
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents: England, 1660-1800--an age without a hero? / James William Johnson -- Absalom and Achitophel and the father hero / Larry Carver -- Dryden's Alexander / W.B. Carnochan -- Concepts of the hero in comic drama, 1660-1710 / Robert D. Hume -- "I the lofty stile decline"--self-apology and the "heroick strain" in some of Swift's poems / C.J. Rawson -- Fielding and the disappearance of heroes / J. Paul Hunter -- Johnson's heroes / Robert Folkenflik -- Wars within doors--erotic heroism in eighteenth-century literature / Peter Hughes -- Richardson's Lovelace and the self-dramatizing hero of the Restoration / Arthur Lindley -- Gothic heroes / Howard Anderson
English literature
English literature
Heroes in literature.