976 resultados para Burdett, Francis, Sir, 1770-1844.
Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1660-1739): a case study in the eighteenth-century culture of improvement
Resumo:
While recent studies of the novel have turned their attention to the diverse experimentalism of mid-century fiction, a number of significant Irish novels of the period remain under-represented in such work. William Chaigneau, Thomas Amory, Charles Johnstone and Henry Brooke are discussed as experimental novelists, extending the 'new species of writing' by their incorporation of theology and politics, education and philosophy within a fictional frame.
