1650-1850; ideas, aesthetics, and inquiries in the early modern era; v.15.

9780404644154

1650-1850; ideas, aesthetics, and inquiries in the early modern era; v.15.

Ed. by Kevin L. Cope.

AMS Press

2008

427 pages

$163.50

Hardcover

PE68

In this fifteenth volume of a journal dedicated to the study of the "long eighteenth century," the emphasis is on a postmaterialist view of the literature of the time. Articles include studies of the work of Andrew Marvell, Bunyan, Sterne, Hodges and Lewis, as well as a look at an attempt to make Isaac Newton's work accessible to "the ladies." Another article examines the literary clubs founded by Edmund Burke in Ireland and England. A special feature contains six essays on eighteenth century literary criticism. As always, there are in-depth reviews of recent publications in the field. Historians and literary scholars will appreciate the fine scholarship represented here.

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