On second thought : updating the eighteenth-century text / edited by Debra Taylor Bourdeau and Elizabeth Kraft.
| Other author | Bourdeau, Debra Taylor, 1972- |
| Other author | Kraft, Elizabeth. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©2007. |
| Description | 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | "The measured lines of the copyist" : sequels, reviews, and the discourse of authorship in England, 1749-1800 / Betty A. Schellenberg -- The slave, the scourge, and society : a comparison of Gay's first and second series of fables / John Adrian -- Updating Summer, or, revising and recomposing The seasons / Sandro Jung -- Far from Simple : Sarah Fielding's Familiar letters and the limits of the eighteenth-century sequel / Allen Michie -- Gay's retreatment of The beggar's opera in Polly / Gregory Timmons -- "Betwixt one passion and another" : continuations of Laurence Sterne's A sentimental journey, 1769-1820 / W.B. Gerard -- Writers that changed the world : Samuel Richardson, Upton Sinclair, and the strategies of social reform / Elizabeth Kraft -- Remaking Crusoe in Derek Walcott's Pantomime / Brett C. McInelly -- Nativity and nationhood : Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Carlos Fuentes's Christopher unborn as critiques of empire / Michael Hardin -- "Dizzy with the beauty of the possible" : The sot-weed factor and the narrative exhaustion of the eighteenth-century novel / Robert Scott -- Rewriting sentimental plots : sequels to novels of sensibility by Jane Austen and another lady / Tamara Wagner -- Paula Rego's after Hogarth : a Portuguese family's Marriage à la mode / Debra Taylor Bourdeau -- "An inviolate preservation" : immortalizing the ephemeral Lock / Emily Hipchen. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-285) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007001072 |
| ISBN | 9780874139754 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0874139759 (alk. paper) |