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Prose Immortality, 1711-1819 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sider Jost, Jacob, 1983- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
Subjects:
English prose literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • The afterlife and the spectator
  • Night thoughts on time, fame, and immortality
  • The threat to the soul in Butler and Warburton
  • The beatified Clarissa
  • Happy ever after in Sir Charles Grandison
  • Laetitia Pilkington in sheets
  • Johnson's eternal silences
  • James Boswell, also, enters into heaven
  • Epilogue: Keats imagines the life of Shakespeare.