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Product Description: During the past century, literary education, often divorced from rhetoric, has grown increasingly distant from the practice of language in statecraft, law, religion, and ethics. Yet literature and rhetoric retain open, independent powers to enhance what Emerson calls "the conduct of life...read more
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9780271018904 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $51.95
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9780271027876 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, January 31, 2008, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: During the past century, literary education, often divorced from rhetoric, has grown increasingly distant from the practice of language in statecraft, law, religion, and ethics.
Product Description: Since 1965 an increasing preoccupation with money has resulted in the inversion of its role in higher education, from a practical means to an end that crowds out all others. No longer do students and parents choose the best education that "money can buy...read more
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9780813923314 | Univ of Virginia Pr, April 30, 2005, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Since 1965 an increasing preoccupation with money has resulted in the inversion of its role in higher education, from a practical means to an end that crowds out all others.
Product Description: In a work of astonishing intellectual range, James Engell traces the evolution of the creative imagination, from its emergence in British empirical thought through its flowering in Romantic art and literature. The notion of a creative imagination, Engell shows, was the most powerful and important development of the eighteenth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780674175723 | Harvard Univ Pr, February 1, 1981, cover price $37.00
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9781583484180 | Iuniverse Inc, June 1, 1999, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: In a work of astonishing intellectual range, James Engell traces the evolution of the creative imagination, from its emergence in British empirical thought through its flowering in Romantic art and literature.
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9780198182443 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 1, 1995, cover price $89.00
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9780674309432 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 26, 1989, cover price $82.00
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9780674869707 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1988, cover price $20.00
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9780674869714 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1988, cover price $10.50 | About this edition: Book by
Published in the bicentennial year of Samuel Johnson's death, Johnson and His Age includes contributions by some of the nation's most eminent scholars of eighteenth-century literature. A section on Johnson's life and thought presents fresh analyses of Johnson's friendships with Mrs. Thrale and George Steevens, new information on Johnson's relations with Smollett and Thomas Hollis, a speculative essay on "Johnson and the Meaning of Life," and a provocative examination of "Johnson, Traveling Companion, in Fancy and Fact." Other essays reinterpret basic assumptions in Johnson's criticism and examine "The Antinomy of Style" in Augustan poetics, Hume's critique of criticism, and the broad Anglo-Scots inquiry on subjectivity in literature. A section on major figures of the age discusses Gray and the problems of literary transmissions, Hogarth's book illustrations for friends, Gibbon's oratorical "silences," Blake's concept of God, and Burke's attempt to forestall Britain's ruinous policy toward the American colonies. A section on the novel examines that genre from Richardson and Sterne to Austen. Among the contributors are Bertrand H. Bronson, Jean H. Hagstrum, Patricia Me Spacks, Robert Haisband, Howard D. Weinbrot, Mary Hyde, Ralph W. Rader, Lawrence Lipking, Gwin J. Kolb, John H. Middendorf, W. B. Carruichan, and Max Byrd.
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9780674480759 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 16, 1985, cover price $41.00
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9780674480766 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 1, 1985, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Published in the bicentennial year of Samuel Johnson's death, Johnson and His Age includes contributions by some of the nation's most eminent scholars of eighteenth-century literature.
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9780691098746 | Bollingen Foundation, December 1, 1982, cover price $150.00
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