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

By James Sambrook

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1993
ISBN
0582219264, 9780582219267
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (21490169 bytes)
Series
Longman Literature in English
Edition
2
Pages
356\357
Time added
2018-04-02 23:20:36
Movements & Periods;Ancient & Classical;Arthurian

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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