Research Catalog

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Description

1. 191 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture

Subject

1. Home in literature
2. Nature in literature
3. Nostalgia in literature
4. Desire in literature
5. English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
6. Nostalgia > Great Britain > History > 18th century

Contents

1. Introduction : toward a theory of nostalgia -- "Pronouncing her case to be grief" : nostalgia and the body in Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison -- Desire, body, and landscape in Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard" and Rousseau's Julie, ou La nouvelle Héloïse -- The "secret pleasure" of the picturesque -- "In a world so changed" : feminine nostalgia and Sarah Scott's A description of Millenium Hall, and the country adjacent.

Call number

1. JFE 07-3785

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-186) and index.

Author

1. Broome, Judith, 1952-

Title

1. Fictive domains : body, landscape, and nostalgia, 1717-1770 / Judith Broome.

Imprint

1. Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, c2007.

Series

1. The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-186) and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents only

LCCN

1. 2006012994

ISBN

1. 0838756344 (alk. paper)
2. 9780838756348 (alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 07-3785