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 Info | Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, [2024] |
| Description | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Howard Weinbrot and the precincts of Enlightenment Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, [2024] 9781611463293 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023049602 |
| ISBN | 9781611463309 (epub) |
| ISBN | (cloth) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |