Shaun Regan All Manuals & Guides Book sku-21146901

Reading 1759, by Shaun Regan, is a hardcover volume of essays on literary culture in Britain and France during 1759, the British “year of victories” in the Seven Years' War. It examines works written and published that year across fiction, philosophy, ethics and aesthetics, bringing them together in what the description calls the first book of its kind.

The essays discuss Johnson, Voltaire, Sterne, Adam Smith, Edward Young, Sarah Fielding and Christopher Smart, as well as the Encyclopédie and contemporary literary review journals. Topics include empire, ethical conduct, colonialism, prostitution, creative expression, originality, the limits of language and causation.

The volume also considers French state censorship of the Encyclopédie and its own place among studies organized around a single year. Listed under All Manuals & Guides; SKU sku-21146901.