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382 pages ; 24 cm |
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ch. 1. Classical models -- ch. 2. French and continental practice -- ch. 3. Early English experiments -- ch. 4. Grub Street activity -Edmund Curll -- ch. 5. Augustan attitudes -Steele and Addison -- ch. 6. Pope and the Scriblerians -- ch. 7. More great names -Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu, Chesterfield, Gray -- ch. 8. Lady Suffolk, Orrery, Shenstone and the school of sentiment -- ch. 9. Johnson and the Johnsonian tinge -- ch. 10. Bluestockings -- ch. 11. Walpole and Cowper -- ch. 12. Scotch letter writers. |
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English letters -- History and criticism.
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English letters. |
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English wit and humor -- History and criticism.
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English wit and humor. |
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Letter writing -- History.
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Letter writing. |
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History. |
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