ABSTRACT
Originally published in 1985, Order From Confusion Sprung brings together some of Claude Rawson's more important essays and articles on eighteenth-century subjects, most belong to the last decade or so, but a few earlier pieces have also been included. Swift, Pope and Fielding are extensively treated, and there are discussions of Johnson, Boswell, Cowper, as well as some authors of the so-called Sentimental School. The volume also contains reappraisals of the concepts underlying such terms as 'neo-classic' and 'Augustan' in their application to eighteenth-century literature, and comments forthrightly on prevailing trends in the academic study of the subject in the last two decades.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|1 pages
Swift
chapter 1|65 pages
The Character of Swift’s Satire
part II|1 pages
Swift, Pope and Augustan Verse Satire
part III|1 pages
Fielding
part IV|1 pages
Others
part V|1 pages
Appendix