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Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature

Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature

D'Israeli, Isaac

Hardcover

Literary CriticismBritish History

ISBN10: 1515420175
ISBN13: 9781515420170
Publisher: Gr Press
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 512
Weight: 2.02
Height: 1.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Isaac D'Israeli's Amenities of Literature was published in 1841, when the author was seventy-five years old. The title was adopted to connect it with two preceding volumes, Curiosities of Literature and Miscellanies of Literature. As the author writes in the preface, this book was intended to form a portion of a much larger work that was never completed. A history of our vernacular literature has occupied my studies for many years. It was my design, not to furnish an arid narrative of books or of authors, but following the steps of the human mind through the wide track of time, to trace from their beginning the rise, progress, and decline of public opinions.... In the progress of these researches many topics presented themselves, some of which from their novelty and curiosity courted investigation. Literary history, in this enlarged circuit, becomes not merely a philological history of critical erudition, but ascends into a philosophy of books. In the midst of his studies for this book, D'Israeli went blind, and finished this book with his daughter's assistance. However, this limited the work to just this one book (first published in two volumes, but presented here complete in one).

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