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The Eighteenth Century
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The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature 1700-1789
The Eighteenth Century
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The Eighteenth Century book
The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature 1700-1789
ByJames Sambrook
Edition 2nd Edition
First Published 1994
eBook Published 24 December 2013
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
Pages 356
eBook ISBN 9781315843896
Subjects Language & Literature
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Sambrook, J. (1994). The Eighteenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature 1700-1789 (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315843896
ABSTRACT
This is an impressive and lucid survey of eighteenth-century intellectual life, providing a real sense of the complexity of the age and of the cultural and intellectual climate in which imaginative literature flourished. It reflects on some of the dominant themes of the period, arguing against such labels as 'Augustan Age', 'Age of Enlightenment' and 'Age of Reason', which have been attached to the eighteenth-century by critics and historians.
