Bücher von John Hoyles

It is not always easy to maintain a proper balance between the delineation of cultural development within a given literary field and the claims of practical criticism.

It has recently been argued that the 18th century can no longer be 1 seen as gripped in the strait-jacket of Augustanism and Neoclassicism. Such labels are seen as doing less than justice to the rich variety of individual talents and intellectual trends which collectively constitute 18th century culture.