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    Alexander Pope and the Traditions of Formal Verse Satire

    Howard D. Weinbrot

    Ranging over the tradition of verse satire from the Roman poets to their seventeenth- and eighteenth-century imitators in England and France, Howard D. Weinbrot challenges the common view of Alexander…

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    Augustus Caesar in Augustan England: The Decline of a Classical Norm

    Howard D. Weinbrot

    Howard D. Weinbrot challenges the view that the period 1660-1800 is correctly regarded as the Augustan age of English literature, a time in which classical Augustan ideals provided a main…

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    Alexander Pope and the Traditions of Formal Verse Satire

    Howard D. Weinbrot

    Ranging over the tradition of verse satire from the Roman poets to their seventeenth- and eighteenth-century imitators in England and France, Howard D. Weinbrot challenges the common view of Alexander…

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    Augustus Caesar in Augustan England: The Decline of a Classical Norm

    Howard D. Weinbrot

    Howard D. Weinbrot challenges the view that the period 1660-1800 is correctly regarded as the Augustan age of English literature, a time in which classical Augustan ideals provided a main…

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    Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, And Politics

    Howard D. Weinbrot

    This is a collection of early and new essays by Weinbrot on Johnson’s varied achievements in lexicography, poetry, narrative, and prose style. It considers Johnson’s uses of the general and…

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    Menippean Satire Reconsidered: From Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century

    Howard D. Weinbrot

    Despite the long history of Menippean satire from antiquity to early modern Europe, this book offers a lucid account of the complex literary form. The author proposes more rigorous but…

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    Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660-1780

    Howard D. Weinbrot (The Huntington Library)

    Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660-1780 analyzes the texts and contexts of several major and minor authors, including Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Olaudah Equiano, Maria De Fleury, Lord…

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    Eighteenth-Century Satire: Essays on Text and Context from Dryden to Peter Pindar

    Howard D. Weinbrot (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

    Howard D. Weinbrot here collects thirteen of his most important essays on Restoration and eighteenth-century British satire. Clearly written, learned, and often witty, this book emphasizes the breadth of context…

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    Britannia’s Issue: The Rise of British Literature from Dryden to Ossian

    Howard D. Weinbrot (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

    This book chronicles the developing confidence in British national literature from the 1670s to the 1770s. Using many varied historical and literary sources, Professor Weinbrot shows that one of the…

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    Eighteenth-century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth

    This text offers an array of essays that consider literary, intellectual, political, theological and cultural aspects of the years 1650-1800, in the British Isles and Europe. At the centre of…

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    Johnson After Three Centuries: New Light on Texts and Contexts

    Johnson After Three Centuries: New Light on Texts and Contexts examines several aspects of Johnson’s career through fresh perspectives and original interpretations by some of the best-known and widely-repsected scholars…

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    Samuel Johnson: Selected Works

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    A one-volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth-century Britain’s pre-eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson

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