{"product_id":"richard-bentley-poetry-and-enlightenment-9780674058712","title":"Richard Bentley: Poetry and Enlightenment","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat made the classical scholar Richard Bentley deserve to be so viciously skewered by two of the literary giants of his day--Jonathan Swift in the \u003ci\u003eBattle of the Books \u003c\/i\u003eand Alexander Pope in the \u003ci\u003eDunciad\u003c\/i\u003e? The answer: he had the temerity to bring classical study out of the scholar's closet and into the drawing rooms of polite society. Kristine Haugen's highly engaging biography of a man whom Rhodri Lewis characterized as \"perhaps the most notable--and notorious--scholar ever to have English as a mother tongue\" affords a fascinating portrait of Bentley and the intellectual turmoil he set in motion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAiming at a convergence between scholarship and literary culture, the brilliant, caustic, and imperious Bentley revealed to polite readers the doings of professional scholars and induced them to pay attention to classical study. At the same time, Europe's most famous classical scholar adapted his own publications to the deficiencies of non-expert readers. Abandoning the church-oriented historical study of his peers, he worked on texts that interested a wider public, with spectacular and--in the case of his interventionist edition of \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e--sometimes lamentable results. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf the union of worlds Bentley craved was not to be achieved in his lifetime, his provocations show that professional humanism left a deep imprint on the literary world of England's Enlightenment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kristine Louise Haugen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.52h x 6.44w x 1.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674058712\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/24\/2011 pg. 53\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2011 pg. 178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHaugen, Kristine Louise:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Kristine Louise Haugen is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the California Institute of Technology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43128124538995,"sku":"9.78067E+12","price":101.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_46a767e1-b9c4-477d-83b0-7f7fc9e4a07e.jpg?v=1749731033","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/richard-bentley-poetry-and-enlightenment-9780674058712","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}