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David Mallet, Anglo-Scot
Sandro Jung
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Hardback. Num Pages: 211 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 499.
This study of the life and works of David Mallet (?1705-65) is the first study of Mallet for the past one hundred and fifty years and assesses the poet's significance within his own period, arguing that modern scholarship has unduly neglected this complex personality who represented changing notions in taste and aesthetics, the intersection between literature and politics, and fashioned professional personae for himself as controversial patriot-poet, party writer, historian, editor, dramatist, and spy. An Anglo-Scot, he negotiated national prejudices, Jacobite leanings, and_when he moved to London in the 1750s_adopted the cultural patriotism of the Hanoverians. The post-Union climate enabled ... Read more
This study of the life and works of David Mallet (?1705-65) is the first study of Mallet for the past one hundred and fifty years and assesses the poet's significance within his own period, arguing that modern scholarship has unduly neglected this complex personality who represented changing notions in taste and aesthetics, the intersection between literature and politics, and fashioned professional personae for himself as controversial patriot-poet, party writer, historian, editor, dramatist, and spy. An Anglo-Scot, he negotiated national prejudices, Jacobite leanings, and_when he moved to London in the 1750s_adopted the cultural patriotism of the Hanoverians. The post-Union climate enabled ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
Number of Pages
211
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611490770
SKU
V9781611490770
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About Sandro Jung
Sandro Jung is research fellow in English at the University of Salford.
Reviews for David Mallet, Anglo-Scot
It is time for eighteenth-century literary scholars, including those with an interest in Scottish literature, to revisit David Mallett.
Scottish Literary Review
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