Reading 1759 : Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lewisburg, PA
ISBN-13: 9781611485936
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction by Shaun Regan; title: I. Writing Empire; title: 1. “What mankind has lost and gained”: Johnson, Rasselas, and Colonialism by James Watt; title: 2.. Voltaire’s Candide as a Global Text: War, Slavery, and Leadership by Simon Davies; title: II. Sentimental Ethics, Luxurious Sexualities; title: 3. Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759: Spectatorship, Duty, and Social Improvement by Nigel Wood; title: 4. “On the soft beds of luxury most kingdoms have expired”: 1759 and the Lives of Prostitutes by Mary Peace; title: III. Authorship and Aesthetics; title: 5. Young, Goldsmith, Johnson, and the Idea of the Author in 1759 by Adam Rounce; title: 6. Towards a New Language: Sublime Aesthetics in Smart’s Jubilate Agno by Rosalind Powell; title: IV. Enlightenment and its Discontents; title: 7. The Encyclopédie in 1759: Crisis and Continuation by Rebecca Ford; title: 8. Lost Cause: Hume, Causation, and Rasselas by James Ward; title: V. Originality and Appropriation; title: 9. Eccentricity, Originality, and the Novel: Tristram Shandy, volumes 1 and 2 by Moyra Haslett; title: 10. Shakespeare’s “Propriety” and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Novel: Sarah Fielding’s The History of the Countess of Dellwyn by Kate Rumbold; title: VI. Conclusion: Reading 1759; title: 11. Writers, Reviewers, and the Culture of Reading by Shaun Regan; title: Bibliography; title: About the Contributors