Common Courtesy in Eighteenth-century English Literature"This book is devoted to a study of this complex intellectual problem or, rather, to an exposition of the ways the greatest writers of this time confronted it and, indeed, solved it. Each of them grasped a special subject matter: Berkeley, for example, wished to espouse an "obvious but amazing" philosophy; Sterne wished to disclose a pitifully obscene private life. In Common Courtesy, the author describes the realm of courtesy each of them composed, a realm in which such subject matter could be made apprehensible to society. Readers of this book should ask, as they attend the author's analysis of each writer and each work: in discussing The Rambler, Tristram Shandy, and An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot as essays in common courtesy, has the author been able to explain the individual sense of each one in turn and to show how its creator made this sense widely available and widely agreeable?"--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Title | Common Courtesy in Eighteenth-century English Literature |
| Author | William Bowman Piper |
| Publisher | University of Delaware Press, 1997 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0874136458, 9780874136456 |
| Length | 200 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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