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Restoration and Eighteenth Century English, 1600-1800Author(s): Richard H. DammersSource: Notre Dame English Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Spring, 1970), pp. 39-41Published by: The University of Notre DameStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40066508 .

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RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH, 1600-1800

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BIBLIOGRAPHY 39

Fussell, Paul. RHETORICAL WORLD OF AUGUSTAN HUMAN- ISM. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. [Fussell discusses the humanistic characteris- tics of Swift, Pope, Johnson, Reynolds, Gibbon, and Burke. The humanists believe that human nature is uniform and fallen, has free will, and unites brute and angel in a human paradox. Fussell also discusses six motifs used by hu- manists: images of architecture, war, clothes, insects, open roads, and elegies. Very impor- tant book. ]

Willey, Basil. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BACKGROUND. London: Chatto and Windus, 1941. ["Nature11 was the touchstone of value in the 18th Century; Willey attempts the Herculean task of describing that "Nature."]

Bate, Walter Jackson. FROM CLASSIC TO ROMANTIC. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1946. [Bate explains the movement from the Renais- sance to the Romantic period. Important.]

Abrams, M. H. THE MIRROR AND THE LAMP. New York: Oxford University Press, 1953. [The first chapter juxtaposes neoclassical and romantic theory. An absolute must.]

Van Ghent, Dorothy. THE ENGLISH NOVEL, FORM AND FUNCTION. New York: Rinehart and Co., 1953. Clt is most fruitful to argue against some of her theories, and yet this book must be read simply because it is so thought -provoking. Com- pare Van Ghent and Watt on MOLL FLANDERS.]

Watt, Ian. THE RISE OF THE NOVEL. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1964. [Watt examines Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding

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in detail, takes a glance at Sterne, and con- cludes with a short but important chapter on Austen. Excellent book.]

Spacks, Patricia. THE POETRY OF VISION. Gam- bridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. Ca New Critical approach to Thomson, Collins, Smart, Gray, and Cowper. Read in conjunction with James Sutherland's A PREFACE TO 18th CEN- TURY POETRY.]

Bredvold, Louis. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SENSIBI- LITY. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1962. CA series of Lectures, Bredvold1 s short book offers insight into the development of sensi- bility from Shaftesbury to Matthew Lewis.]

Quintana, Ricardo. THE MIND AND ART OF JONATHAN SWIFT. New York: Oxford University Press, 1936. CAn old standard, Quintana1 s book illuminates not only Swift but Swift's friends, who hap- pened to be the most important people of Queen Anne's era.]

Frye, Roland Mushat. "Swift's Yahoos and the Christian Symbols for Sin,1' JHI, 15 (1954), 201-217. CFrye answers the Yahoo controversy that has raged since the time of Bowdler.]

Fujdmura, Thomas. RESTORATION COMEDY OF WIT. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952. [[Interesting study of drama from 1660-1700.]

Williams, Aubrey. Pope's Dunsiad. London: Methuen, 1955. CAlthough the subject is only one poem, Wil- liam's analysis helps to explain the fears of Augustan humanists.]

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Dobree, Bonamy. ALEXANDER POPE. London: Sylvan Press, 1951 [[Interesting, enjoyable, and short. This bio-

graphy offers an important description of the

Pope circle, an anlaysis of the Pastoral quar- rel, and a commentary on the Pope-Addison feud over the ILIAD.]

Bronson, Bertrand. JOHNSON AGONISTES AND OTHER ES- SAYS. Cambridge: The University Press, 1946. [Bronson's four essays are important; the fourth, on Boswell, is excellent.]

Stanlis, Peter. EDMUND BURKE AND THE NATURAL LAW. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1958. CA1 though Stanlis discusses Burke primarily, he somehow brings much of the late 18th century into focus.]

Bredvold, Louis. THE INTELLECTUAL MILIEU OF JOHN DRYDEN. Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 1934. [Important study in history of ideas.]

Babb, Howard. JANE AUSTEN fS NOVELS. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1962. [Remember "metaphor ic indirection." See also Mary Lascelle's JANE AUSTEN AND HER ART and Marvin Mudrickfs IRONY AS DEFENSE AND DIS- COVERY.]

Price, Martin. TO THE PALACE OF WISDOM. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1964. [An excellent review of Dryden through Blake.]

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