The English hero, 1660-1800
By: edited by Robert Folkenflik.
Contributors: Folkenflik, Robert, 1939-
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Newark; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Heroes in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: England, 1660-1800; title: an age without a hero? / James William Johnson; title: Absalom and Achitophel and the father hero / Larry Carver; title: Dryden's Alexander / W.B. Carnochan; title: Concepts of the hero in comic drama, 1660-1710 / Robert D. Hume; title: "I the lofty stile decline"; title: self-apology and the "heroick strain" in some of Swift's poems / C.J. Rawson; title: Fielding and the disappearance of heroes / J. Paul Hunter; title: Johnson's heroes / Robert Folkenflik; title: Wars within doors; title: erotic heroism in eighteenth-century literature / Peter Hughes; title: Richardson's Lovelace and the self-dramatizing hero of the Restoration / Arthur Lindley; title: Gothic heroes / Howard Anderson.