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Eighteenth-Century Literature
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Postscript: Old Sir Walter
Anyone familiar with the history of gentlemanly representation will understand what then happened to Scott. In becoming an authority on what makes men gentlemen, like countless writers before him, Scott quickl...
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Introduction
This is a book about the struggle to define “the gentleman” during the long eighteenth century and about the role this struggle played in the development of literary forms. Focusing on a familiar yet unexamine...
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Conclusion
It has long been argued that fiction’s invention of the modern individual hinged upon its depictions of women. According to a familiar line of argument, the reason why domestic fiction succeeded in redefining ...
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Gentlemen and Their Knowledge of the World
In the above lines from Dryden’s panegyric to Charles Stuart, the restored King emerges no worse for wear. Figured as necessary components of the young man’s political education, travail and travel render Char...
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The Dissemination of Knowledge of the World from The Connoisseur to Evelina
From the beginning, the meaning and cultural authority of “knowledge of the world” depended on a contextualized chain of significations, linking the acquisition of literacy to the time-honored codes of aristoc...
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Sir Walter Scott and the Gentrification of Empire
From their implied audiences to their choices of subject matter, perhaps no two novelists seem more different than the once thought “serenely apolitical” Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott, whose tales of rebell...
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The Politics of Alexander Pope’s Urbanity
In this chapter, I consider a mode of writing that is not often read alongside early eighteenth-century instructional texts but that nevertheless shares with those texts a contemporary interest in the codifica...
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Austen’s Fiction in the Age of Commerce
In the fifth chapter of Persuasion (1817), Jane Austen’s narrator describes the desolation of her heroine, Anne Elliot, as Anne contemplates her impending departure from her family’s ancestral home in the Somerse...
