Studies in the eighteenth century : papers presented at the David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra, 1966 /
The papers brought together in this volume bear witness to the growing vigour and diversity of eighteenth-century studies. The seminar at which they were presented was held to honour the memory of a literary scholar, David Nichol Smith. It is therefore understandable and fitting that the majority of...
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Toronto [Ontario] :
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- D.N.S. A Biographical Note
- David Nichol Smith
- The Enlightenment: Towards a Useful Redefinition
- The Development of Eighteenth-Century Studies in the British Commonwealth
- Middle-Class Literacy in Eighteenth-Century England: Fresh Evidence
- Two Historical Aspects of the Augustan Tradition
- 'Sentiment': Some Uses of the Word in the Writings of David Hume
- Johnson's Neglected Muse: The Drama
- The Muse of Mercantilism: Jago, Grainger, and Dyer
- The Birth of Tristram Shandy: Sterne and Dr Burton
- Some Eighteenth-Century Attempts to Use the Notion of Happiness
- The Augustan Mode in English Poetry
- 'From a Fable form a Truth': A Consideration of the Fable in Swift's Poetry
- Milton and the German Mind in the Eighteenth Century
- The Grand Tour and the Rule of Taste
- Johnson's London: The Country Versus the City
- The Apocalypse of Christopher Smart
- The Classical Learning of Samuel Johnson
- Bibliography of Works by and about David Nichol Smith
- Subscribers
- Index
- Backmatter
