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050	0	4	_aPR769 _b.P767 2015
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aSider Jost, Jacob, _d1983- _e1
245	1	0	_aProse Immortality, 1711-1819 /Jacob Sider Jost.
260			_aCharlottesville : _bUniversity of Virginia Press, _c(c)2015.
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490	0		_aWinner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize
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505	0	0	_aThe afterlife and the spectator -- _tNight thoughts on time, fame, and immortality -- _tThe threat to the soul in Butler and Warburton -- _tThe beatified Clarissa -- _tHappy ever after in Sir Charles Grandison -- _tLaetitia Pilkington in sheets -- _tJohnson's eternal silences -- _tJames Boswell, also, enters into heaven -- _tEpilogue: Keats imagines the life of Shakespeare.
520	0		_aWriters have always aspired to immortality, using their works to preserve their patrons, their loved ones, and themselves beyond death. For Pindar, Horace, and Shakespeare, the vehicle of such preservation was poetry. In the eighteenth century, figures such as Joseph Addison, Edward Young, Samuel Richardson, Laetitia Pilkington, Samuel Johnson, and James Boswell invented a new kind of literary immortality, built on the documentary power of prose. For eighteenth-century authors, the rhythms and routines of daily lived experience were too rich to be distilled into verse, and prose genres such as the periodical paper, novel, memoir, essay, and biography promised a new kind of lastingness that responded to the challenges and opportunities of Enlightenment philosophy and evolving religious thought. Prose Immortality, 1711-1819 documents this transformation of British literary culture, spanning the eighteenth century and linking journalism, literature, theology, and philosophy. In recovering the centrality of the afterlife to eighteenth-century culture, this prizewinning book offers a versatile and wide-ranging argument that will speak not only to literary scholars but also to historians, scholars of religion, and all readers interested in the power of literature to preserve human experience through time.
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650		0	_aEnglish prose literature _y18th century _xHistory and criticism.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell