Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Notes on Contributors xiii
5. D.N.S. A Biographical Note xvii
6. David Nichol Smith 1
7. The Enlightenment: Towards a Useful Redefinition 17
8. The Development of Eighteenth-Century Studies in the British Commonwealth 31
9. Middle-Class Literacy in Eighteenth-Century England: Fresh Evidence 49
10. Two Historical Aspects of the Augustan Tradition 67
11. ‘Sentiment’: Some Uses of the Word in the Writings of David Hume 89
12. Johnson’s Neglected Muse: The Drama 109
13. The Muse of Mercantilism: Jago, Grainger, and Dyer 119
14. The Birth of Tristram Shandy: Sterne and Dr Burton 133
15. Some Eighteenth-Century Attempts to Use the Notion of Happiness 155
16. The Augustan Mode in English Poetry 171
17. ‘From a Fable form a Truth’: A Consideration of the Fable in Swift’s Poetry 193
18. Milton and the German Mind in the Eighteenth Century 205
19. The Grand Tour and the Rule of Taste 231
20. Johnson’s London: The Country Versus the City 251
21. The Apocalypse of Christopher Smart 269
22. The Classical Learning of Samuel Johnson 285
23. Bibliography of Works by and about David Nichol Smith 307
24. Subscribers 315
25. Index 317
26. Backmatter 340