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    Collections series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
    This book is the first to assess Johnson’s diverse insights into friendship—that is to say, his profound as well as widely ranging appreciation of it—over the course of his long literary career. It examines his engagements with ancient philosophies of friendship and with subsequent reformulations of or departures from that diverse inheritance. The volume explores and illuminates Johnson’s ... En savoir plus

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

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    In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of ... En savoir plus

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  • Reading 1759

    Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

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  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740

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