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Familiar letters betwixt a gentleman and a lady.
Familiar letters betwixt a gentleman and a lady. | Multiple Contributors
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT117086Title from half-title. First leaf signed S4. Vol.2, pp.265-308 of an unknown work. Contains letters between Berina and Artander.[London?, 1720?]. Pp.[2],265-308; 8°
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(1725) A Tory gentleman and a Whig lady exchange letters. They begin with political sparring and platonic friendship then end in love. The plot is unsurprising, but the period politics and anecdotes are very interesting, and the prose is a class in the 18th century art of saying a thing by saying its opposite. Fun and fascinating, but for me a critical edition was absolutely necessary to understand what was happening. I recommend Martha Bowden's.