Irish Literature the Eighteenth Century An Annotated Anthology
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Sprache:Englisch
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.10.2005
Herausgeber
A. Norman Jeffares + weitereVerlag
Irish Academic PressMaße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/3 cm
Gewicht
640 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-7165-2804-3
Irish Literature Eighteenth Century illustrates not only the impressive achievement of the great writers-Swift, Berkeley, Burke, Goldsmith and Sheridan-but also shows the varied accomplishment of others, providing unexpected, entertaining examples from the pens of the less well known. Here are examples of the witty comic dramas so successfully written by Susannah Centlivre, Congreve, Steele, Farquhar and Macklin. There are serious and humorous essayists represented, including Steele, Lord Orrery, Thomas Sheridan and Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Beginning with Gulliver's Travels, fiction includes John Amory's strange imaginings, Sterne's stream of consciousness, Frances Sheridan's insights, Henry Brooke's sentimentalities and Goldsmith's charm. Poetry ranges from the classical to the innovative. Graceful lyrics, anonymous jeux d'esprit, descriptive pieces, savage satires and personal poems are written by very different poets, among them learned witty women, clergymen and drunken ne'er-d
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