Howard Weinbrot and the precincts of Enlightenment the genius of every place / edited by Kevin L. Cope.

Other author Cope, Kevin Lee.
Other author Weinbrot, Howard D.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBethlehem : Lehigh University Press, [2024]
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Contents Introduction : a place for genius : Howard Weinbrot and eighteenth-century studies / Kevin L. Cope -- Swift's lists / J.T. Scanlan -- History, myth, and heroism in Dryden's translation, the Æneis / David Venturo -- Discourses of the eye : Romeo and Juliet and William Hogarth's Marriage a-la mode / Timothy Erwin -- Samuel Johnson's lives of the philosophers / Robert DeMaria, Jr. -- Imitation and biography : Richard Savage and the misreading of London / Lance Wilcox -- Johnson's irascibles and the good work of bad stories / David Wade Nunnery -- Johnson, Dodd, and the concentrated sententia / A.W. Lee -- 'Incipit' : pope's beginnings, original and revised / Stephen Karian -- Major, minor, marginal, mummified : the lost middle years of eighteenth century canon formation in the twentieth century / James Engell -- 'Sublunary particularity' : religion, rhetoric, and difference / Samara Anne Cahill -- Stewards of the lord : eighteenth-century gardeners as pioneers of sustainability / Bärbel Czennia -- Diplomacy, diversion, and invention : Sir George Macartney at the court of Catherine the Great / Greg Clingham -- Johnson and Stendhal : a French connection / Philip Smallwood -- Samuel Johnson and the sense of place / Stephen Clarke -- Some dreams in eighteenth-century fiction / Maximillian E. Novak -- Howard D. Weinbrot : a bibliography of his publications / compiled by Stephen Karian.
Abstract "This collection opens a panorama of essays celebrating diverse ways to participate in the British-and international-Enlightenment. Investigating major authors, unusual persons, commentators on other nations, scholars, and even early environmentalists, this volume explores the many amenable places where the confident culture of this period emerged"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Howard Weinbrot and the precincts of Enlightenment Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, [2024] 9781611463293
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LCCN 2023049602
ISBN9781611463309 (epub)
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