The Varied pattern; studies in the 18th century.
Title:
The Varied pattern; studies in the 18th century.
Author:
Hughes, Peter, 1940- ed.
ISBN:
9780888665058
Publication Information:
Toronto, A. M. Hakkert, 1971.
Physical Description:
xv, 394 p. illus. 23 cm.
Series:
Publications of the McMaster University Association for 18th-century Studies, v. 1
Publications of the McMaster University Association for 18th-Century Studies; v. 1.
Contents:
The education of Lemuel Gulliver / Digressions in imaginary voyages / Voyages curieux d'un Philadelphe (1755) : an anonymous utopia of the mid-18th century / Structure in the Cartas Marruecas of Cadalso / Language, history & vision : an approach to 18th-century literature / Marivaux & the crisis of literary forms in the early Enlightenment / An 18th-century view of Roman satire / Theatrical satire : a protest from the stage against poor taste in theatrical entertainment / An Augustan monument : the opticks of Isaac Newton / The pictorial circuit & related structures in 18th-century England / The dawn of British romantic painting, 1760-1780 / Chin Nung & the 18th-century eccentric view / Dr. Mandeville : "A thinking man" / The theory of conspicuous consumption in the 18th Century / Adam Smith's approach to economic development / The via media in an age of revolution : Anglicanism in the 18th century / Religion & society in America's revolutionary era : some preliminary reflections / The politics of feminism in the French Enlightenment / Fray Benito Jerâonimo de Feijâoo & the sciences in 18th-century Spain -- "An original champion of Enlightenment" : M.V. Lomonosov & Russian education in the 18th century