The Augustan Vision |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 38
Page 75
... reader's imagination is enlivened , his temper aroused , his feelings played on , his memory jogged , his patience ... Readers It is peculiarly hard to disentangle Roles and Identities 75.
... reader's imagination is enlivened , his temper aroused , his feelings played on , his memory jogged , his patience ... Readers It is peculiarly hard to disentangle Roles and Identities 75.
Page 85
... readers in a day . Later on , starting around 1740 , came the circulating library , originally the creation of dissenting ministers and the like , but whose chief stock in trade soon proved to be the novel . The large market for ...
... readers in a day . Later on , starting around 1740 , came the circulating library , originally the creation of dissenting ministers and the like , but whose chief stock in trade soon proved to be the novel . The large market for ...
Page 248
... reader are changed : not only the author's relation to his public and the characters of his work , but also the reader's attitude to these characters . The author treats the reader as an intimate friend and addresses himself to him in a ...
... reader are changed : not only the author's relation to his public and the characters of his work , but also the reader's attitude to these characters . The author treats the reader as an intimate friend and addresses himself to him in a ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Landscape of the Age | 5 |
The Shape of Society | 7 |
Copyright | |
30 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
achieved Addison admired aesthetic allegory artistic Augustan Beggar's Opera career Century London CHAPTER character Chesterfield Cibber Clarissa Colley Cibber comedy comic contemporary course criticism Crusoe culture Defoe drama Dryden Dunciad eighteenth century England English Epistle Essay fact feeling fiction Fielding Fielding's Grub Street Gulliver Henry Fielding Hogarth Horace Walpole Humphry Clinker Ian Watt ideas imaginative important interest Jacobite rising John Johnson Jonathan Wild kind language later less letters literary literature living Locke Lord Matthew Prior mode moral narrative narrator Nash natural Newton novel Opera Oxford Pamela patron period play poem poet poetic poetry political Pope Pope's prose readers Richardson Robert Walpole Samuel Richardson satire scene Scriblerian sense Smollett social society sort Sterne style Swift taste theme things Thomson tion Tom Jones trade tragedy Tristram Shandy verse Walpole Whig whilst William women writer wrote