{"product_id":"acts-of-implication-suggestion-and-covert-meaning-in-the-works-of-dryden-swift-pope-and-austen-paperback","title":"Acts of Implication: Suggestion and Covert Meaning in the Works of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Austen - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIrvin Ehrenpreis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eActs of Implication\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the best approach to the aesthetic value of much literature of the past is by way of the deliberate meaning--implicit or explicit--that the author invites the reader to share. Irvin Ehrenpreis shows that subtlety and indirection do not militate against the didacticism and lucid style we usually associate with writers in the Augustan tradition. In a group of simulating essays he examines how an eighteenth-century dramatist, an essayist, a poet, and a novelist imply meaning about politics, religion, and sexual passion, focusing on their concept of heroism to elaborate these themes. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe originality of this book lies in grouping together four writers who might at first glance seem very different and revealing a common ground of social and political attitudes among them. It will have a major influence on the way in which we read the literature of the Restoration and the eighteenth century.--Maximillian Novak\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrvin Ehrenpreis\u003c\/b\u003e was the Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSwift: The Man, His Works, and the Age\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Literary Meaning and Augustan Values\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a contributor to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 10, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42133401141383,"sku":"9780520302747","price":71.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/cf7ac2f4cc498de4803bbe79301d0c51.webp?v=1732634045","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/acts-of-implication-suggestion-and-covert-meaning-in-the-works-of-dryden-swift-pope-and-austen-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}