Mock 7 – 18th Century: Augustans & the Novel (Part 1)

Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885) → premiere (1894) → Lewis's film (1932) → Old Vic revival (1944) → Helden (1958).

The Traveller; or, A Prospect of Society, in heroic couplets drawn from his travels through Europe. The Citizen of the World (1762) is his collection of 'Chinese letters', and The Fashionable Lover (1772) is Richard Cumberland's comedy.

In his letter of 7 February 1755, Johnson rebuffed Chesterfield's belated praise of the Dictionary: a patron is 'one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help'. It is taken as the symbolic end of literary patronage.

Goldsmith inserts the comic 'Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog' in Chapter 17 of The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), sung by one of the Primrose children; it ends with the dog dying, not the man it bit.

Blake produced 116 watercolours for Gray's poems (1797–98) and designs for Blair's The Grave (1808); he also illustrated Young's Night Thoughts.

The Gothic novel began in eighteenth-century Britain with Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764); Radcliffe, Lewis and Mary Shelley followed. Its marks are medieval settings (B) and terror built from mystery, ghosts and madness (E). A, C and D confuse it with other periods or visual arts.

Edinburgh Review (1802, Whig) → Quarterly Review (1809, Tory reply) → Westminster Review (1824, Benthamite) → The Spectator (1828 weekly) → Fraser's Magazine (1830), which serialised Carlyle's Sartor Resartus.

Bacon, The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book I, a statement of his inductive method.

Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1711), ll. 297–98: 'True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, / What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.'

The Whig Kit-Cat Club (c. 1700–20) included Addison, Steele, Congreve and Vanbrugh. Etherege died around 1692, before it formed; Johnson, a Tory born in 1709, founded The Club (1764).

The Guardian (March–October 1713). The Tatler (1709) preceded The Spectator; Cave founded The Gentleman's Magazine (1731); The Athenian Mercury was John Dunton's (1690s).

Shakespeare's allegorical elegy on ideal love appeared in 1601 among the 'Poetical Essays' appended to Robert Chester's Love's Martyr.

Radcliffe's Gothic The Romance of the Forest (1791); Goldsmith's The Deserted Village (1770); Swinburne's verse tragedy The Sisters (1892); Byron's The Vision of Judgment (1822), parodying Southey.

Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688) and The Fair Jilt (1688) are short prose romances that precede the realist novel. Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa, Fielding's Amelia and Smollett's Ferdinand Count Fathom are eighteenth-century novels.

All four are from Blake's Songs of Innocence (1789); 'Holy Thursday' and 'The Little Boy Lost' also have counterparts in Songs of Experience (1794).

Walpole's The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (2nd ed. 1765); Hardy's Tess: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented (1891); Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818); Thackeray's Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero (1847–48).

Household Words (1850–59), The Friend (1809–10), The Guardian (1713) and The Indicator (1819–21) are periodicals; The Metamorphosis (1915) is Kafka's novella.

The cultivated landscape recalls Gulliver's travels; the cannibal economics is A Modest Proposal (1729); the physiology of 'vapours' rising to the brain is the 'Digression on Madness' in A Tale of a Tub (1704); the overflowing kennels close 'A Description of a City Shower' (1710).

Note: List I passages are paraphrased.

Swift (1667–1745) was born in Dublin, schooled at Kilkenny and Trinity, and ordained priest in 1695. He belonged to the Tory Scriblerus Club, not the Whig Kit-Cat Club. Lady Audley's Secret (1862) is by M. E. Braddon, and he wrote nothing with Johnson.

Basil (1852) and The Woman in White (1859–60) are Collins's. A Tale of a Tub is Swift's and The School for Lovers (1762) a comedy by William Whitehead.