Studies in the Eighteenth Century II : Papers Presented at the Second David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra 1970.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Illustrations -- Pope's Essay on Man and the French Enlightenment -- The Hero as Clown: Jonathan Wild, Felix Krull, and Others -- Richardson at Work: Revisions, Allusions, and Quotations in Clarissa -- Rhetoric and Historiography: Tristram Shandy's First Nine Kalendar Months -- Henry Fielding and the English Rococo -- An Early Theory of Genius: Alexander Gerard's Unpublished Aberdeen Lectures -- Diderot and the Sublime: the Artist as Hero -- Fuseli's Translations of Winckelmann: a Phase in the Rise of British Hellenism, with an Aside on William Blake -- The Influence of Pierre Bayle's Defence of Toleration on the Idea of History expressed in the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique -- Historical Scepticism in Scotland before David Hume -- Modernisation, Mass Education, and Social Mobility in French Thought 1750-1789 -- Hawkesworth's Voyages -- Of Silkworms and Farthingales and the Will of God -- Swift and Satirical Typology in A Tale of a Tub -- The Politics of Gulliver's Travels -- Satire and Self-Expression in Swift's Tale of a Tub -- Swift: Some Caveats -- David Garrick, Poet of the Theatre: A Critical Survey -- Cato in Tears: Stoical Guises of the Man of Feeling -- Nichol Smith Collections in Edinburgh and Oxford -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This volume presents an array of studies on many aspects of the eighteenth century: on the novel, history, the history of ideas, drama, poetry and sentimentality.

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