18th Century British Literature
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Nous tenterons donc ici, sans prétention à l’exhaustivité, de montrer en quoi les voyageurs sont des comparatistes par nature, comment cela se transmet dans les relations qui émergent de leurs déplacements, et en quoi il est impératif... more
A contribution from the 2001 FESTSCHRIFT for J. Paul Hunter
Eighteenth-century Britain saw the emergence of a new poetic genre, the “work” poem which took various forms of labor as its subject and was often written by laborers themselves. Several of these working class poets found their lives... more
Infanticide seems to dominate literature from the beginning. It has been observed that it started since the use of the Bible. Why does it concern the writers so much? This has to be analyzed here. It refers to any kind of murder of a... more
This is a paper on how I have developed a pedagogy and what that is to teach retired adults in two Oscher Institutes of Lifelong Learning. I explain the history, development, operation, goals and kinds of people who belong to these.... more
Translation from Montagu's An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear (1769) into Turkish
Eliza Haywood’s short novella Fantomina is concerned with the fluidity of sexual and social identity when it is removed from the influence of the domestic “home.” Through the removal of her socially-positioned “person,” the title... more
It is the purpose of this essay to demonstrate that across her oeuvre Charlotte Smith writes out of a politically radical post-colonial and woman-centered perspective. She shows herself to be fully aware of this when in Marchmont (1796),... more
From the late 1750s British writers, merchants and diplomats responded to trade tensions with China by imagining how cross-cultural forms of civility might bridge the political divides between the two empires, allowing the trade demands... more
Promenade, se promener, déambuler, errer, se déplacer, se balader, circuler, flâner, marcher ; autant de mots que l’on utilise à loisir comme synonymes, mais qui, à y regarder de plus près, rendent compte de réalités et de déterminants... more
Mysticism firstly is a belief or a state of spiritual experience; hence, mystical experience as the key element of mysticism. Its main aim is to unify with the Absolute/ God. Since 19th century (the period of which “Daffodils” was... more
A plenary lecture at the annual meeting of the Anglistentag in Hannover, Germany, to mark the 300th anniversary of the Hanoverian succession in Britain
An old review of McKeon's 1987 Origins of the English Novel
Liberalism is a term employed in a dizzying variety of ways across the humanities and social sciences. This essay seeks to reframe how the liberal tradition is understood. I start by delineating different types of response – prescriptive,... more
A lecture I gave at the first meeting of the Defoe Society in Tulsa, OK and repeated at the Univ. of Georgia in Athens. The title will tell you what it's about.
L'Oupnek'hat ou l' histoire de la traduction de l'Upanisad d'Anquetil-Duperron, extrait de la thèse Anquetil-Duperron, salace et son rôle dans la Renaissance Orientale, Université de Montpellier, 1986
An exploration into evolving cultural constructions of Ophelia over 250 years.
Just how prescient was Edmund Burke about the problems of modern democracy? Written for the bicentenary of his death in 1797, this book argues that he had a remarkable grasp of the shortcomings of the ideas promoted by the French... more
This essay examines the different answers that British moralists gave to the question ‘what does virtue consist in?’ Rather than as a royal road to present-day views in ethics, their answers are best understood when considered against the... more
In his poem, “The Chimney Sweeper: Innocence” and “The Chimney Sweeper: Experience” Blake makes a scalding commentary about societal injustice by representing the plight of poor children who are forced to work as chimney sweeps by... more
The histories of moral concern for animals and literary sentimentalism are intertwined, yet the reasons for this connection have been little understood. This study examines the reasons for the growth of compassion for animals in late... more
Cet article étudie la résurgence de deux types de romans familiaux dans le roman du 18e siècle, français et anglais: l'un remonte à Aristote, l'autre à Platon. Pour l'auteur de la Poétique, les deux principaux effets que doit produire le... more
Frances Burney's novel Evelina follows a young woman through a series of mortifying social interactions, all of which point to a layered concept of women's agency and the popular perceptions of autonomy during the eighteenth century.... more
Detailed, chronological study which places Masonically-related British literature in international context of Jacobite-Hanoverian, Tory-Whig, nationalist-imperialist political context (from 1680s to 1750s, with ramifications into the... more
What do we know about the friendship between the great Tory and the great Whig? A paper for the Johnson Club and the Edmund Burke Society, 1999
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, previously published as a travel narrative in 1726, revolves around the adventurous life of a ship's surgeon, Lemuel Gulliver. Throughout the book, Swift highly mocks and criticizes the follies of the... more
As Byron rose to fame he kept on developing his ideal protagonist. Though Childe Harold is the work that notably brought him overnight success, it is only the template of what is to be known as the Byronic Hero. With the personal... more
Jane Austen'in ilk yayımlanan romanı, temel izleğinde aşk bulunan Sense and Sensebility mektup formatında yazılmıştır. Farklı dillere çevirisi yapılmış olan roman gerek başlığı gerekse anlatı yapısıyla sosyal, ekonomik, düşünsel, ahlaki... more
A comparison of Mr. Horner in the Country Wife and Willmore in the Rover and the different rakish qualities that they portray.
This research paper aims to explore the topic of paternalism as it appears in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) in relation to the novel’s themes of individualism, spiritual awakening, and survival. The analysis will therefore trace... more