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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1993.
Description:	viii, 237 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	English letters -- History and criticism Authors, English -- 18th century -- Correspondence -- History and criticism. English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Eighteenth century Authors, English. Civilization -- Historiography. English letters. English prose literature. Letter writing. Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century -- Historiography. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Records and correspondence. Sources.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1408630

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Other authors / contributors:	McKenzie, Alan T.
ISBN:	0820314668 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Alan T. McKenzie
Accounts of an Eyewitness: Defoe's Dispatches from the Vale of Trade and the Edinburgh Parliament House / Paula R. Backscheider
Courtliness, Business, and Form in the Correspondence of Lord Chesterfield / Alan T. McKenzie
Banter and Testimony, Supplication and Praise, in the Letters of Christopher Smart / Betty Rizzo
Real Business, Elegant Civility, and Rhetorical Structure in Two Letters by Charles Burney / Alvaro Ribeiro
Responses to Tyrants: Robert Dodsley to William Warburton and to David Garrick / James E. Tierney
Edifying the Young Dog: Johnson's Letters to Boswell / Lance E. Wilcox
The Paradox of the Actress: Morality, Profession, and Behavior in Two Letters by Denis Diderot / Emita B. Hill
Prose and Power in Two Letters by Jane Austen / Susan C. Whealler
Postscript / Janet Gurkin Altman.

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