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The English hero, 1660-1800
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- Creator
- edited by Robert Folkenflik
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, [1982]
- ©1982
- Physical Details
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- 230 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780874131741, 087413174X
- OCLC
- ocm07653248
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- England, 1660-1800--an age without a hero? / James William Johnson -- Absalom and Achitophel and the father hero / Larry Carver -- Dryden's Alexander / W.B. Carnochan -- Concepts of the hero in comic drama, 1660-1710 / Robert D. Hume -- "I the lofty stile decline"--self-apology and the "heroick strain" in some of Swift's poems / C.J. Rawson -- Fielding and the disappearance of heroes / J. Paul Hunter -- Johnson's heroes / Robert Folkenflik -- Wars within doors--erotic heroism in eighteenth-century literature / Peter Hughes -- Richardson's Lovelace and the self-dramatizing hero of the Restoration / Arthur Lindley -- Gothic heroes / Howard Anderson