Beckett's Eighteenth Century

by F. Smith

2021-01-01 04:23:17

Beckett''s Eighteenth Century is the first book-length study of Samuel Beckett''s affinity with the British eighteenth century and of the influence of its writers on his work. Reading Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, Johnson, Gray, and other wri... Read more
Beckett''s Eighteenth Century is the first book-length study of Samuel Beckett''s affinity with the British eighteenth century and of the influence of its writers on his work. Reading Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, Johnson, Gray, and other writers of this period, this study demonstrates how he was not only influenced by them but interprets them for us in a quite modern way. Beckett''s uniqueness is not questioned here, but this uniqueness is shown, paradoxically, to have its roots at least in part in his native literature of two centuries ago. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.51 X 0 in
Print pages219
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Publication date January 1, 2002
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780333925393

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