17961 Dickens Wide-ranging collection of 17 essays

Wide-ranging collection of 17 essays from distinguished scholars

Very good condition

the ballad

her encounters with Samuel Johnson and her time at Court

Black with gilt title on spine

17961 Dickens Wide-ranging collection of 17 essaysThe author examines the works of Smollett, Charlotte Smith, Walter Scott, and others to show how conservatives in the 18th century used the rhetoric of victimhood to convince ordinary readers to regard a privileged person's loss of legal agency as a catastrophe greater than the calamities and legally sanctioned exclusions suffered by the poor and enslaved. Johns Hopkins Unviversity Press. 2020. Paper. NEW. $35. 00