The Eighteenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature 1700-1789

The Eighteenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature 1700-1789
ISBN-10
1317893239
ISBN-13
9781317893233
Series
The Eighteenth Century
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
356
Language
English
Published
2014-07-15
Publisher
Routledge
Author
James Sambrook

Description

This is an impressive and lucid survey of eighteenth-century intellectual life, providing a real sense of the complexity of the age and of the cultural and intellectual climate in which imaginative literature flourished. It reflects on some of the dominant themes of the period, arguing against such labels as 'Augustan Age', 'Age of Enlightenment' and 'Age of Reason', which have been attached to the eighteenth-century by critics and historians.

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