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"This volume is both a formal study of the anecdote's properties and possibilities and an inquiry into the anecdote's intellectual function in Enlightenment culture. The author contends that anecdotes acted in Enlightenment writing as mediators between the incidents of human life and the laws of human nature, connecting the abstractions of philosophical reflection with lived experience. Successive chapters take a specific genre (the essay), a single writer (David Hume), a historical event (the Endeavour voyage), and a literary project (the Lyrical Ballads) as nets for collecting anecdotes. Each chapter is committed to the particularities of individual anecdotes and the specificities of the uses to which these anecdotes were put. However, the book also outlines a larger historical narrative in which the anecdote moves from a central place in the science of human nature to holding a particular place in poetry, even as the anecdote began to lose its currency in the emerging human sciences"--

Anecdotes--History and criticism. --- European literature--18th century--History and criticism. --- Enlightenment. --- Europe --- Intellectual life --- Civilization --- European literature --- History and criticism.

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Tragedy in the eighteenth century is often said to have expired or been deflected into nondramatic forms like history and satire, and to have survived mainly as a "tragic sense" in writers like Samuel Johnson. Leopold Damrosch shows that many readers were still capable of an imaginative response to tragedy. In Johnson, however, moral and aesthetic assumptions limited his ability to appreciate or create tragedy, despite a deep understanding of human suffering. This limitation, Mr. Damrosch argues, derived partly from his Christian belief, and more largely from a view of reality that did not allow exclusive focus on its tragic aspects.The author discusses Irene, The vanity of Human Wishes, and Johnson's criticism of tragedy, particularly that of Shakespeare. A Final chapter places Johnson's view in the context of modern theories.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Tragic, The. --- Tragedy --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Johnson, Samuel, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- English literature - 18th century - History and criticism --- Tragedy - History and criticism --- Tragic, The --- Johnson, Samuel, - 1709-1784 - Criticism and interpretation

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« Démêlé, bagarre et bigarrure, voilà ce qui agite Mouhy sous les dehors de la mondanité ». C’est ainsi que, dans un agréable essai, Patrick Wald-Lasowski définit la carrière de l’énigmatique, imprévisible, prolifique et toujours étonnant chevalier de Mouhy. Ce paria de la République des Lettres bénéficie depuis quelques années d’un regain d’intérêt, ce dont témoignent plusieurs éditions récentes de ses romans. Le moment semble venu de faire le point sur une oeuvre très diversifiée, qui va de la fantaisie délirante de Lamékis au réalisme audacieux de La Mouche , et de dégager du coup quelques nouvelles pistes de recherche, qui touchent, entre autres, à l’histoire de la librairie, aux poétiques du roman d’Ancien Régime et aux arrière-plans politiques insoupçonnés qui se profilent derrière quelques-uns de ses romans.

Mouhy --- Mouhy, Charles de Fieux, --- French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. --- French literature. --- Mouhy, Charles de Fieux, chevalier de, 1701-1784. --- Romance Literatures --- French Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Fieux, Charles de, --- M., --- Mouhy, --- Authors, French --- French fiction --- History and criticism. --- Mouhy, Charles de Fieux, - chevalier de, - 1701-1784

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Cette Histoire de la littérature française du XIXe siècle a l’ambition de renouveler le regard que nous portons sur la production littéraire de ce siècle. Comment rendre sensible le lien qui unit le temps de l’Histoire et celui des imaginaires littéraires ? Pour répondre à cette question, ce livre articule de manière convergente une histoire socio-intellectuelle du siècle et l’étude des individualités les plus fortes. Il entrelace des chapitres sur l’évolution générale des contenus et des formes, et des analyses consacrées aux auteurs. Il invite à une lecture stéréoscopique de l’ensemble, de sorte que l’historicité et la singularité de chaque œuvre soient également prises en compte. Ce livre fort et riche, original et efficace, est destiné aux étudiants de lettres – classes préparatoires, premier et second cycles. Il sera aussi un excellent outil de synthèse pour les étudiants qui préparent les concours, pour les futurs professeurs de lettres en formation dans les IUFM, ainsi que pour les professeurs de l’enseignement secondaire.

French literature --- Littérature française --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature française --- Fransk litteratur --- Französisch. --- French literature. --- Literatur. --- Historia --- History and criticism --- 1800-1899. --- Geschichte 1800-1900. --- French literature - 18th century - History and criticism. --- French literature - 19th century - History and criticism. --- Literature --- Literature, Romance --- littérature --- XIXe siècle

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Die vorliegende Arbeit sollte beitragen an ein besseres Verständnis der romantischen Literatur im zeitgenössischen Kontext. Es wird untersucht wie die die Klassik und die Romantik sich mit einander verhalten haben anhand von Einzelanalysen. Auf tradiotionelle Grenzen wie Früh-, Hoch- oder Spätromantik wird verzichtet, sowie auch auf die Idee daß in romantische Werke nur aesthetische Tendezen zum Ausdruck kamen; sondern daß auch politisch operative und sozialpolitische funktionale Tendenzen wichtig waren.

German literature --- Romanticism --- History and criticism --- Greece --- Rome --- In literature --- Mythology, Classical, in literature. --- Young Germany --- History and criticism. --- In literature. --- German literature - 18th century - History and criticism --- German literature - 19th century - History and criticism --- Romanticism - Germany --- Greece - In literature --- Rome - In literature