Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon

by Alvaro Ribeiro, James G. Basker

Overview

These eighteen essays represent a new generation of eighteenth-century scholarship. Writing in honor of Professor Roger Lonsdale of the University of Oxford, the contributors—including Marilyn Butler, David Fairer, Christine Gerrard, Nicholas Hudson, Richard Wendorf, and April London—focus on the three main areas of scholarship to which Lonsdale has made signal contributions: women writers, marginalized authors and texts, and the shape of the eighteenth-century canon of English Literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198182887
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/23/1996
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 6.76(h) x 1.12(d)

About the Author

Georgetown University

Barnard College

Table of Contents

	Notes on Contributors	xiii
Part 1	Women Writers
1.	Poetry, Pudding, and Epictetus: The Consistency of Elizabeth Carter	3
2.	The 'Chit-Chat way': The Letters of Mrs Thrale and Dr Burney	25
3.	Radical Affinities: Mary Wollstonecraft and Samuel Johnson	41
4.	Jane West and the Politics of Reading	56
5.	Edgeworth's Stern Father: Escaping Thomas Day, 1795-1801	75
Part 2	Marginal Texts
6.	I was a kind of an Historian': The Productions of History in Defoe's Colonel Jack	97
7.	Master and Servant: Social Mobility and the Ironic Exchange of Roles in Swift's Directions to Servants	111
8.	Boswell at Work: The Revision and Publication of The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides	127
9.	At the Boundaries of Fiction: Samuel Paterson's Another Traveller!	144
10.	'Oral Tradition': The Evolution of an Eighteenth-Century Concept	161
11.	Sir Joshua's French Revolution	177
12.	'Great as he is in his own good opinion': The Bounty Mutiny and Lieutenant Bligh's Construction of Self	198
Part 3	The Eighteenth-Century Canon
13.	Parnell, Pope, and Pastoral	221
14.	Poetry from the Provinces: Amateur Poets in the Gentleman's Magazine in the 1730s and 1740s	241
15.	William Collins and the Idea of Liberty	257
16.	Celts, Goths, and the Nature of the Literary Source	275
17.	Trafficking in the Muse: Dodsley's Collection of Poems and the Question of Canon	297
18.	'Sweet native stream!': Wordsworth and the School of Warton	314
	Index	339

Editorial Reviews

"This volume offers some powerful reappraisals of canonical figures in addition to bringing new subjects to light."—Eighteenth-Century Fiction

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