Ebook: Prose Immortality, 1711-1819
Author: Sider Jost Jacob
- Tags: Englisch, English prose literature, English prose literature--History and criticism--18th century, Prosa, Criticism interpretation etc, English prose literature -- History and criticism -- 18th century
- Series: Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: University of Virginia Press
- City: Charlottesville
- Language: English
- epub
The afterlife and the spectator -- Night thoughts on time, fame, and immortality -- The threat to the soul in Butler and Warburton -- The beatified Clarissa -- Happy ever after in Sir Charles Grandison -- Laetitia Pilkington in sheets -- Johnson's eternal silences -- James Boswell, also, enters into heaven -- Epilogue: Keats imagines the life of Shakespeare.