NEO-CLASSICAL LITERATURE AND LITERARY THEORY
(c. 1600 - c. 1785)

SUB-PAGES

Authors:

• France:
  • Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684)
  • Molière [Jean-Baptiste Poquelin] (1622 - 1673)
  • Jean Racine (1639 - 1699)
• Germany:

  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729 - 1781)

• Italy:
• Spain:
• UK:

  • John Milton (1608 - 1674)

  • John Dryden (1631 - 1700)

  • John Dennis (1657 - 1674)

  • Daniel Defoe (1659 [or 1661] - 1731)

  • Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)

  • Edward Young (1683 - 1765) (see also Nineteenth Century Romantic Literature and Literary Theory)

  • Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)

  • Samuel Richardson (1689 - 1761)

  • Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)

  • Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

  • Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)

Philosophers / Theorists:

• France:

  • Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684)

  • Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636 - 1711)

• Germany:

  • Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)

  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729 - 1781)

• Italy:

  • Giambattista Vico (1668 - 1744)

• Spain:

• UK:

  • John Dryden (1631 - 1700)

  • John Dennis (1657 - 1674)

  • Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)

  • Edward Young (1683 - 1765) (see also Nineteenth Century Romantic Literature and Literary Theory)

  • Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)

  • Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

  • David Hume (1711 - 1776)

  • Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)

  • Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) (see also Nineteenth Century Romantic Literature and Literary Theory)

Feminist:

• Neo-Classical Literature and Literary Theory by Women / Feminist Perspectives on Neo-Classical Literature and Literary Theory

Post-colonial:

• Neo-Classical Non-Western Literature and Literary Theory / Post-colonial Perspectives on Neo-Classical Literature and Literary Theory

ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2007:

• Rewriting the Long Eighteenth Century, 13th David Nichol Smith Seminar, Department of English, University of Otago, April 10-14

2006:

2005:

2004:

2003:

2002:

2001:

2000:

COURSES

• Miami University of Ohio: Eighteenth Century British Novel (Mandell)

• University of Strathclyde: Philosophy and Literature in the European Enlightenment (Furniss)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • Literature:
    • Demaria, Robert, ed.  British Literature, 1640-1789: an Anthology
    • Tillotson, Geoffrey, Paul Fussell, and Marshall Waingrow, eds.  Eighteenth Century English Literature. 

  • Literary Theory:

    • Ashfield, Andrew, and Peter De Bolla, eds.  The Sublime: a Reader in British Eighteenth Century Aesthetic Theory.  Cambridge: CUP, 1996.
    • Womersley, David, ed.  Augustan Critical Writings.  
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Literature:
  • Literary Theory:

On-Line:

• Literature:
• Literary Theory:
  • Dennis, John: Grounds of Criticism in Poetry (1704)

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • Literary Criticism:
  • Literary Theory:
    • Nisbet, H. B., and Claude Rawson, eds.  The Eighteenth Century.  Vol. 4 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1997.
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Literary Criticism:
    • General:
      • Ballestin, Martin The Providence of Wit: Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature and the Arts
      • Castle, Terry The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny
      • Castle, Terry Masquerade and Civilisation: the Carnivalesque in Eighteenth Century Culture
      • Chernaik, Warren Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature
      • Clifford, James, ed. Modern Essays in Criticism: Eighteenth Century English Literature
      • Demaria, Robert, ed. British Literature, 1640-1789: a Critical Reader
      • Doody, Margaret The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered
      • Erskine-Hill, Howard The Augustan Idea in English Literature
      • Fairer, David, et al., eds. Eighteenth Century Poetry
      • Fussell, Paul The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism
      • Gill, James, ed. Cutting Edges: Postmodern Critical Essays on Eighteenth Century Satire
      • Griffin, Dustin Satire: a Critical Reintroduction
      • Hilles, Frederick, ed. The Age of Johnson
      • Hilles, Frederick, ed. From Sensibility to Romanticism
      • Hunter, J. Paul Before Novels: the Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth Century Fiction
      • Jack, Ian Augustan Satire, 1660-1750
      • Johnson, James The Form of English Neoclassical Thought
      • Kroll, Richard The Material Word: Literate Culture in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century
      • Leavis, F. R. Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry
      • Lipking, Lawrence.  The Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth Century England.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1970.
      • Miner, Earl The Restoration Mode from Milton to Dryden
      • Nussbaum, Felicity, et al., eds. The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature
      • Paulson, Ronald, ed. Modern Essays in Criticism: Satire
      • Piper, William The Heroic Couplet
      • Rawson, Claude Satire and Sentiment, 1669-1830
      • Rogers, Pat The Augustan Vision
      • Rogers, Pat, ed. The Eighteenth Century
      • Schilling, Bernard, ed. Essential Articles for the Study of English Augustan Backgrounds
      • Seidel, Michael Satiric Inheritance: Rabelais to Sterne
      • Selden, Raman English Verse Satire
      • Sitter, John, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth Century English Poetry
      • Stephen, Leslie English Literature and Society in the XVIII Society
      • Tillotson, Geoffrey Augustan Studies
      • Tillotson, Geoffrey Augustan Poetic Diction
      • Watson, J. R., ed. Pre-Romanticism in English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century
      • Zwicker, Steven, ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740
      • Zwicker, Stephen Lines of Authority: Politics and English Literary Culture
      • Zwicker, Stephen, et al., eds. Politics of Discourse: the Literature and History of Seventeenth Century England
    • Topics:
      • Classicism:
        • Highet, G. The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature
        • Martindale, Charles Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
        • Miles, Geoffrey, ed. Classical Mythology in English Literature: a Critical Anthology
        • Thomson, J. A. K. The Classical Background of English Literature
        • Thomson, J. A. K. Classical Influences on English Poetry
        • Weinbrot, Howard Augustus Caesar in ‘Augustan’ England: the Decline of a Classical Norm
      • Christianity:
        • Morris, David The Religious Sublime: Christian Poetry and Critical Tradition in Eighteenth Century England
      • Genres:
        • Ballestin, Martin The Providence of Wit: Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature and the Arts
        • Erskine-Hill, Howard The Augustan Idea in English Literature
        • Fussell, Paul The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism
        • Gill, James, ed. Cutting Edges: Postmodern Critical Essays on Eighteenth Century Satire
        • Griffin, Dustin Satire: a Critical Reintroduction
        • Jack, Ian Augustan Satire, 1660-1750
        • Johnson, James The Form of English Neoclassical Thought
        • Martindale, Charles Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
        • Miner, Earl The Restoration Mode from Milton to Dryden
        • Nussbaum, Felicity, et al., eds. The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature
        • Paulson, Ronald, ed. Modern Essays in Criticism: Satire
        • Piper, William The Heroic Couplet
        • Rawson, Claude Satire and Sentiment, 1669-1830
        • Seidel, Michael Satiric Inheritance: Rabelais to Sterne
        • Selden, Raman English Verse Satire
  • Literary Theory:
    • Atkins, J. W. H.  English Literary Criticism: the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
    • Crane, R. S.  "English Neoclassical Criticism: an Outline Sketch."  Dictionary of World Literature.  Ed. Joseph T. Shipley.  New York: Philosophical Library, 1943. 
      • Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1952.  372-388.
    • Daiches, David.  "Imitation and Instruction."  Critical Approaches to Literature.  New York: Norton, 1956.  73-89.
    • Harland, Richard.  "The Rise and Fall of Neoclassicism."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes: an Introductory History.  Basingstoke:Palgrave, 1999.  29-59.

    • Kallich, M.  "The Association of Ideas and Critical Theory: Hobbes, Locke and Addison."  Journal of English Literary History 12 (1945): 290-315.

On-Line:

• Guyer, Paul: 18th Century German Aesthetics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Morizot, Jacques: 18th Century French Aesthetics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Restoration and the 18th Century

• Schmidgen, Wolfram: Objects that Talk Axess (2007)

• Shelley, James: 18th Century British Aesthetics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Victorian Web: Neoclassicism: an Overview

• WebMuseum: Classicism

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia:
  • Restoration Literature

  • 18th Century in Literature:

    • Augustan Literature:

      • Augustan Poetry

      • Augustan Prose

    • Category Neoclassicism: Neoclassicism

WWW GATEWAYS

• Simons, Olaf: The Novel in Europe, 1670-1730

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