{"product_id":"irish-literature-the-eighteenth-century","title":"Irish Literature: The Eighteenth Century, An Annotated Anthology; Editors A. Norman Jeffares \u0026 Peter Van De Kamp","description":"\u003cp\u003eHardback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: New\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEditors: A. Norman Jeffares \u0026amp; Peter Van De Kamp\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"primary\" class=\"site-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"content\" role=\"main\" class=\"twentytwelve\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"product-602\" class=\"post-602 product type-product status-publish has-post-thumbnail product_cat-18th_century_history product_cat-literature_and_criticism first instock shipping-taxable purchasable product-type-variable has-default-attributes\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-tabs wc-tabs-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-Tabs-panel woocommerce-Tabs-panel--description panel entry-content wc-tab\" id=\"tab-description\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-title-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIrish Literature The Eighteenth Century\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eillustrates not only the impressive achievement of great Irish writers such as Swift, Berkeley, Burke, Goldsmith and Sheridan, it also provides unexpected and entertaining examples from the pens of the less well known.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are examples of the witty comic dramas so successfully written by Susannah Centlivre, Congreve, Steele, Farquhar and Macklin. There are serious and humorous essayists represented, including Steele, Lord Orrery, Thomas Sheridan and Richard Lovell Edgeworth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with Gulliver’s Travels, fiction includes John Amory’s strange imaginings; Sterne’s stream of consciousness; Frances Sheridan’s insights; Henry Brooke’s sentimentalities and Goldsmith’s charm.  Poetry ranges from the classical to the innovative. Graceful lyrics, anonymous jeux d’esprit, descriptive pieces, savage satires and personal poems are written by very different poets; among them learned witty women, clergymen and drunken ne’er-do-wells.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoliticians, notably Grattan and Curran, produced eloquent speeches, effective essays and pamphlets accompanying political activity. Personal letters and diaries such as the exuberant Dorothea Herbert’s Recollections convey the changing ethos of this century’s literature, based on the classics and moving to an increasing interest in the translation of Irish literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book conveys fascinating liveliness and rich variety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\" data-block-type=\"2\" id=\"block-594fb23770a160ffef18\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\" id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1593414774523_316\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product_description\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product_description\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Secret Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31947399299142,"sku":"721","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0275\/8921\/4278\/products\/IrishLiterature_TheEighteenthCentury.jpg?v=1593517385","url":"https:\/\/www.thesecretbookstore.live\/products\/irish-literature-the-eighteenth-century","provider":"The Secret Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}