Erwin Timothy - Textual Vision : Augustan Design and the Invention of Eighteenth-Century British Culture

Textual Vision

Transits:

Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850

Series Editors

Greg Clingham

Bucknell University

Kate Parker

University of WisconsinLa Crosse

Transits is the next horizon. The series of books, essays, and monographs aims to extend recent achievements in eighteenth-century studies and to publish work on any aspects of the literature, thought, and culture of the years 16501850. Without ideological or methodological restrictions, Transits seeks to provide transformative readings of the literary, cultural, and historical interconnections between Britain, Europe, the Far East, Oceania, and the Americas in the long eighteenth century, and as they extend down to present time. In addition to literature and history, such global perspectives might entail considerations of time, space, nature, economics, politics, environment, and material culture, and might necessitate the development of new modes of critical imagination, which we welcome. But the series does not thereby repudiate the local and the national for original new work on particular writers and readers in particular places in time continues to be the bedrock of the discipline.

Selected titles in the Series

The Family, Marriage, and Radicalism in British Womens Novels of the 1790s: Public Affection and Private Affliction

Jennifer Golightly

Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment

Yal Schlick

John Galt: Observations and Conjectures on Literature, History, and Society

Regina Hewitt

Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals

Manushag N. Powell

Excitable Imaginations: Eroticism and Reading in Britain, 16601760

Kathleen Lubey

The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 17901814: The Struggle for Historys Authority

Morgan Rooney

Rococo Fiction in France, 16001715: Seditious Frivolity

Allison Stedman

Poetic Sisters: Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets

Deborah Kennedy

Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The Impresario in Political and Cultural Context

Jack E. DeRochi and Daniel J. Ennis

Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print

Kevin Murphy and Sally ODriscoll

Developments in the Histories of Sexualities

Chris Mounsey

Enlightenment in Ruins: The Geographies of Oliver Goldsmith

Michael Griffin

Reading Christopher Smart in the Twenty-first Century: By Succession of Delight

Edited by Min Wild and Noel Chevalier

Wordsworth, Hemans, and Politics, 18001830: Romantic Crises

Benjamin Kim

Print Technology in Scotland and America 17401800

Louis Kirk McAuley

The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century

Chris Mounsey

Ravishment of Reason: Governance and the Heroic Idioms of the Late Stuart Stage, 16601690

Brandon Chua

Global Romanticism: Origins, Orientations, and Engagements, 17601820

Edited by Evan Gottlieb

Textual Vision: Augustan Design and the Invention of Eighteenth-Century British Culture

Timothy Erwin

For a complete list of titles in this series, please visit http://www.bucknell.edu/universitypress

Transits

Textual Vision

Augustan Design and the Invention of Eighteenth-Century British Culture

Timothy Erwin

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Erwin, Timothy.

Textual vision : Augustan design and the invention of eighteenth-century British culture / Timothy Erwin.

pages cm. (Transits : literature, thought & culture, 16501850)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-61148-569-1 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-61148-570-7 (electronic) 1. English literature18th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. Art and literatureGreat BritainHistory18th century. 3. Description (Rhetoric)History18th century. 4. Ekphrasis. 5. Landscapes in literature. 6. Picturesque, The, in literature. I. Title. II. Title: Augustan design and the invention of eighteenth-century British culture.

PR448.A77E79 2015

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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.

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