Bücher von Howard D. (University of Wisconsin Weinbrot

This book chronicles the developing confidence in British national literature from the 1670s to the 1770s. Using many varied historical and literary sources, Professor Weinbrot shows that one of the central trends of eighteenth-century Britain was the movement away from classical towards native values and models.

Howard D. Weinbrot here collects thirteen of his most important essays on Restoration and eighteenth-century British satire. Clearly written, learned, and often witty, this book emphasizes the breadth of context that enriches our understanding of satire and the relationships among the nurturing culture, the producing poet, the poem producers, and the poem as received in its age.