The English hero, 1660-1800 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Folkenflik, Robert, 1939-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Newark : London : University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, [1982]
Subjects:	English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. Heroes in literature.

Table of Contents:

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.