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Gleaning Modernity
Eric Rothstein
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Description for Gleaning Modernity
Hardback. Num Pages: 269 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 169 x 19. Weight in Grams: 585.
Gleaning Modernity shows how earlier eighteenth-century literary texts might have eased the way for Britain's increasing modernity. They allowed Modern scenarios to be played out imaginatively, as simulations for experimental, predictive ends. The process spoke to the needs and desires of readers in a world of rapid, managed change. It worked unobtrusively first because of the practice of recycling old forms, as Pope and Richardson did, for example, with Horatian and tragic models, respectively; and second because given texts offered different readers a range of interpretative options. Along with providing original readings of such major texts as Gulliver's Travels and ... Read more
Gleaning Modernity shows how earlier eighteenth-century literary texts might have eased the way for Britain's increasing modernity. They allowed Modern scenarios to be played out imaginatively, as simulations for experimental, predictive ends. The process spoke to the needs and desires of readers in a world of rapid, managed change. It worked unobtrusively first because of the practice of recycling old forms, as Pope and Richardson did, for example, with Horatian and tragic models, respectively; and second because given texts offered different readers a range of interpretative options. Along with providing original readings of such major texts as Gulliver's Travels and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
Number of Pages
269
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611493214
SKU
V9781611493214
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About Eric Rothstein
Eric Rothstein is Edgar W. Lacy Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin.
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