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This volume presents fifteen original essays that move from structural and thematic subjects to matters of historical and cultural significance. Contributors to Quick Springs of Sense cover a remarkably wide variety of the literary interests and figures of England from the Augustan Age until midcentury including the periodical, Gulliver’s Travels, Defoe, Fielding, the episodic novel as a genre, Smollett, Sterne, and the poetry of Swift and Pope. Its variety and liveliness aptly convey the vigor of the neoclassical age itself where there were many quick springs of sense.

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All of the essays . . . are meticulously written and reveal the loving and intelligent attention which is now being paid by scholars even to some of the most minor eighteenth-century writing. -- Sewanee Review

"""All of the essays . . . are meticulously written and reveal the loving and intelligent attention which is now being paid by scholars even to some of the most minor eighteenth-century writing.""--""Sewanee Review"""

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LARRY S. CHAMPION is a professor emeritus and former head of the English Department at North Carolina State University. He is the author or editor of numerous books including Quick Springs of Sense and Perspective in Shakespeare's English Histories (both Georgia).

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