J Paul Hunter
Biographic Data
| ID | 291970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Paul Hunter |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunter |
| SIGNATURE | HUNTER J P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe had an eventful and adventurous life as a merchant, politician, spy and literary hack. He is one of the eighteenth century's most lively, innovative and important authors, famous not only for his novels, including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, but for his extensive work in journalism, political polemic and conduct guides, and for his pioneering 'Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain'. This volume surveys the wi…
Missing Years
The third of a century between the late 1680s and the early 1720s-a time when a vast number of prolific poets flourished-is almost completely overlooked in literary history, perhaps because there was no single poetic leader and no dominant direction in the poetry. But it was a very fertile period in poetry, with many talented poets and many potential directions that did not develop into dominant trends. Because literary history almost inevitably …
Introduction
The essay discusses the presumption of one's singularity, the uniqueness of one's time, the picturesqueness of one actions, and the capacity of human beings, whether corporately or individually, to begin everything or indeed anything again from scratch. Such presumptions are indeed present in some varieties of contemporary fanaticism, but, more to the point, it is suggested that the feeling of doing something for the first time is the oldest feel…
Gulliver ’ sTravels and the later writings
Swift's most ambitious, most accessible, and most enduring literary work - Gulliver's Travels - first appeared on October 28, 1726, just over a month before his fifty-ninth birthday. Its actual title was Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World , and it appeared anonymously, or rather pseudonymously, as by “Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships.” Swift had gone to elaborate lengths to disguise his authorshi…
Protesting fiction, constructing history
Just over three hundred years ago, a typical 1690s pamphlet called The Second Spira appeared in a London bookshop in the Poultry, looking a lot like scores of other publications of the time. It reported a recent news item, recounting in detail the tormented death and last words of an unnamed religious apostate; its story was concisely and quite movingly told, the message explicit, the bead on the reader steady, and the tone predictably didactic. …
The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain
This collection of essays by some of the most distinguished historians and literary scholars in the English-speaking world explores the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction in British imaginative and historical writing from the Tudor period to the Enlightenment. The historians discuss the questions of truth, fiction, and the contours of early modern historical culture, while the literary scholars consider some of the fi…
The Future of the Past
Before Novels
Before novels
Novels and History and Northrop Frye
IN AN AGE when almost all known literary theorists are French, Swiss, German, or Russian, it is hard to remember that not long ago seemed specifically the province of Anglophone critics and especially of North Americans. Europe, especially Eastern Europe, supported many good theorists, of course-many more than were dreamt of in the English-speaking world-but at mid-century what stirred students of English texts was the work of such figures as W. …
The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse
No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such poets as Pope, Swift, Tomson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, and Blake. In addition, the anthology includes verse by many forgotten writers, both men and women, from all levels of society. Although they have never figured in conventional literar…
News, and New Things
Response as Reformation
Response as Reformation
The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse
No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such poets as Pope, Swift, Tomson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, and Blake. In addition, the anthology includes verse by many forgotten writers, both men and women, from all levels of society. Although they have never figured in conventional literar…
News, and New Things
Before novels
Novels and History and Northrop Frye
IN AN AGE when almost all known literary theorists are French, Swiss, German, or Russian, it is hard to remember that not long ago seemed specifically the province of Anglophone critics and especially of North Americans. Europe, especially Eastern Europe, supported many good theorists, of course-many more than were dreamt of in the English-speaking world-but at mid-century what stirred students of English texts was the work of such figures as W. …
Before Novels
The Future of the Past
Protesting fiction, constructing history
Just over three hundred years ago, a typical 1690s pamphlet called The Second Spira appeared in a London bookshop in the Poultry, looking a lot like scores of other publications of the time. It reported a recent news item, recounting in detail the tormented death and last words of an unnamed religious apostate; its story was concisely and quite movingly told, the message explicit, the bead on the reader steady, and the tone predictably didactic. …
The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain
This collection of essays by some of the most distinguished historians and literary scholars in the English-speaking world explores the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction in British imaginative and historical writing from the Tudor period to the Enlightenment. The historians discuss the questions of truth, fiction, and the contours of early modern historical culture, while the literary scholars consider some of the fi…
Gulliver ’ sTravels and the later writings
Swift's most ambitious, most accessible, and most enduring literary work - Gulliver's Travels - first appeared on October 28, 1726, just over a month before his fifty-ninth birthday. Its actual title was Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World , and it appeared anonymously, or rather pseudonymously, as by “Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships.” Swift had gone to elaborate lengths to disguise his authorshi…
Missing Years
The third of a century between the late 1680s and the early 1720s-a time when a vast number of prolific poets flourished-is almost completely overlooked in literary history, perhaps because there was no single poetic leader and no dominant direction in the poetry. But it was a very fertile period in poetry, with many talented poets and many potential directions that did not develop into dominant trends. Because literary history almost inevitably …
Introduction
The essay discusses the presumption of one's singularity, the uniqueness of one's time, the picturesqueness of one actions, and the capacity of human beings, whether corporately or individually, to begin everything or indeed anything again from scratch. Such presumptions are indeed present in some varieties of contemporary fanaticism, but, more to the point, it is suggested that the feeling of doing something for the first time is the oldest feel…
The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe had an eventful and adventurous life as a merchant, politician, spy and literary hack. He is one of the eighteenth century's most lively, innovative and important authors, famous not only for his novels, including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, but for his extensive work in journalism, political polemic and conduct guides, and for his pioneering 'Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain'. This volume surveys the wi…
Introduction
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