Title Reading 1759 : literary culture in mid-eighteenth-century Britain and France / edited by Shaun Regan

Published Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 255 pages) Series Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850 Transits (Bucknell University) Summary Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Examining key works by Johnson, Voltaire, Sterne, Adam Smith, Edward Young, Sarah Fielding, and Christopher Smart, the volume presents a wide-ranging account of the year's work in literature and of the key issues that preoccupied writers at this time: from empire, civilization, and social reform to Enlightenment knowledge, authorial originality, and literary taste Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Books and reading -- France -- History -- 18th century Literature and society -- France -- History -- 18th century Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Books and reading Literature and society France Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Regan, Shaun, 1970- Bucknell University Press. ISBN 9781611484793 1611484790

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