The Nonsense of Common-Sense, 1737-1738 (Classic Reprint)
The Nonsense of Common-Sense, 1737-1738 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Mary Wortley Montagu

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-04

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9780260273260

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Excerpt from The Nonsense of Common-Sense, 1737-1738 I am obliged to the Earl of Harrowby and to the Viscount Sandon for their graciousness in allowing me to consult the Wort ley Papers, of which I am printing, With their permission, the portions relating to the N onsense of common-sense. The Yale University Library and the Bodleian Library have generously allowed me to reprint their copies of this rare periodical. In addition, the British Museum, Columbia University, the New York Public Library, and the Newberry Library have been cour teous and helpful. Professors John Webster Spargo, Ray W. Frantz, T. M. Cranfill, and Miss Miriam Locke have given me the benefit of their painstaking advice. My personal obligation to several other scholars I have indicated in footnotes. And, finally, I am deeply indebted to Professor George Sherburn of Harvard University for his sympathetic encouragement and um failing assistance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Common Sense in Early 18th-Century British Literature and Culture
Common Sense in Early 18th-Century British Literature and Culture

Author: Christoph Henke

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 3110343401

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While the popular talk of English common sense in the eighteenth century might seem a by-product of familiar Enlightenment discourses of rationalism and empiricism, this book argues that terms such as ‘common sense’ or ‘good sense’ are not simply synonyms of applied reason. On the contrary, the discourse of common sense is shaped by a defensive impulse against the totalizing intellectual regimes of the Enlightenment and the cultural climate of change they promote, in order to contain the unbounded discursive proliferation of modern learning. Hence, common sense discourse has a vital regulatory function in cultural negotiations of political and intellectual change in eighteenth-century Britain against the backdrop of patriotic national self-concepts. This study discusses early eighteenth-century common sense in four broad complexes, as to its discursive functions that are ethical (which at that time implies aesthetic as well), transgressive (as a corrective), political (in patriotic constructs of the nation), and repressive (of otherness). The selection of texts in this study strikes a balance between dominant literary culture – Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson – and the periphery, such as pamphlets and magazine essays, satiric poems and patriotic songs.

Common Sense
Common Sense

Author: Sophia Rosenfeld

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0674057813

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Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine’s vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense—the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate—remains a powerful political ideal, utilized alike by George W. Bush’s aw-shucks articulations and Barack Obama’s down-to-earth reasonableness. But far from self-evident is where our faith in common sense comes from and how its populist logic has shaped modern democracy. Common Sense: A Political History is the first book to explore this essential political phenomenon. The story begins in the aftermath of England’s Glorious Revolution, when common sense first became a political ideal worth struggling over. Sophia Rosenfeld’s accessible and insightful account then wends its way across two continents and multiple centuries, revealing the remarkable individuals who appropriated the old, seemingly universal idea of common sense and the new strategic uses they made of it. Paine may have boasted that common sense is always on the side of the people and opposed to the rule of kings, but Rosenfeld demonstrates that common sense has been used to foster demagoguery and exclusivity as well as popular sovereignty. She provides a new account of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions, and offers a fresh reading on what the eighteenth century bequeathed to the political ferment of our own time. Far from commonsensical, the history of common sense turns out to be rife with paradox and surprise.

Index of English Literary Manuscripts
Index of English Literary Manuscripts

Author:

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1998-06-19

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 072012283X

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This volume, the third in the series, discusses the works of 11 British 18th-century writers, providing information on the nature of the MS, date, variant title(s), state of completion, provenance and location, date and first form of publication, any scholarly use of the MS, and the existence of any published facsimiles. Information is drawn from material in libraries, record offices and private collections throughout the world. The listing of each author's manuscripts is preceded by an introduction. The book records many hitherto unrecorded manuscripts.

English Literature, Volume 2
English Literature, Volume 2

Author: Louis A. Landa

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 721

ISBN-13: 1400877334

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Two volumes containing the annual bibliographies of 18th century scholarship published in the Philological Quarterly. "An excellent aid to the student of 18th century literature."—Saturday Review. Volume 2, 1939-1950, includes consolidated index for both volumes. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals
Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals

Author: Manushag N. Powell

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2012-06-29

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1611484170

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Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals discusses the English periodical and how it shapes and expresses early conceptions of authorship in the eighteenth century. Unique to the British eighteenth century, the periodical is of great value to scholars of English cultural studies because it offers a venue where authors hash out, often in extremely dramatic terms, what they think it should take to be a writer, what their relationship with their new mass-media audience ought to be, and what qualifications should act as gatekeepers to the profession. Exploring these questions in The Female Spectator, The Drury-Lane Journal,The Midwife, The World, The Covent-Garden Journal, and other periodicals of the early and mid-eighteenth century, Manushag Powell examines several “paper wars” waged between authors. At the height of their popularity, essay periodicals allowed professional writers to fashion and make saleable a new kind of narrative and performative literary personality, the eidolon, and arguably birthed a new cult of authorial personality. In Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals, Powell argues that the coupling of persona and genre imposes a lifespan on the periodical text; the periodicals don’t only rise and fall, but are born, and in good time, they die.