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Preface ix
Notes on Contributors xiii
D.N.S. : A Biographical Note xvii
David Nichol Smith Herbert Davis 1
The Enlightenment: Towards a Useful Redefinition
Franklin L. Ford 17
The Development of Eighteenth-Century
Studies in the British Commonwealth W.J. Cameron 31
Middle-Class Literacy in Eighteenth-Century
England: Fresh Evidence R.M. Wiles 49
Two Historical Aspects of the Augustan Tradition Ian Watt 67
'Sentiment': Some Uses of the Word in the
Writings of David Hume R.F. Brissenden 89
Johnson's Neglected Muse: The Drama Roy S. Wolper 109
The Muse of Mercantilism: Jago, Grainger, and Dyer
O.H.K. Spate 119
The Birth of Tristram Shandy: Sterne and Dr Burton
Arthur H. Cash 133
Some Eighteenth-Century Attempts to Use the
Notion of Happiness S.A. Grave 155
The Augustan Mode in English Poetry Ralph Cohen 171
'From a Fable form a Truth': A Consideration of
the Fable in Swift's Poetry C.J. Home 193
Milton and the German Mind in the Eighteenth Century
J.H. Tisch 205
The Grand Tour and the Rule of Taste Joseph Burke 231
Johnson's London: The Country Versus the City John Hardy 251
The Apocalypse of Christopher Smart A.D. Hope 269
The Classical Learning of Samuel Johnson M.N. Austin 285
Bibliography of Works by and about David Nichol Smith 307
Subscribers 315
Index 317
Illustrations
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hoped, would both honour the memory of the man and stimulate
the further growth of scholarly activity in the field to which he had
made such a notable contribution.
The seminar was held at the Australian National University
during the week 15-19 August 1966. The papers delivered at the
seminar, with two exceptions, are brought together in this volume.
The exceptions are 'The Birth of Tristram Shandy: Sterne and
Dr Burton' by Arthur H. Cash, and 'Analytical Bibliography: Some
Problems of Method', by D. F. McKenzie. Professor Cash's paper had
been included in the seminar program, but he was unexpectedly
prevented at the last minute from delivering it. We consider our-
selves fortunate in being able to present it now. Dr McKenzie's
paper was delivered at the seminar but since it had already been
accepted for publication elsewhere we are unable to print it in this
volume.
As a contribution to the seminar the National Library of Aus-
tralia undertook the preparation of a Short Title Catalogue of
books printed in the British Isles, the British Colonies and the
United States of America and of English books printed elsewhere,
1701-1800, held in the libraries of the Australian Capital Territory.
The catalogue was edited by Professor William J. Cameron of
McMaster University and Mrs Diana J. Carroll of the National
Library. It was published during the seminar. The National Library
also mounted an exhibition of books, manuscripts, and prints,
designed 'to illustrate David Nichol Smith, the man and the
scholar'.
During the seminar a concert of eighteenth-century chamber
music was presented. The concert was organised by Mr David
Woolley, principal oboist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra;
and it was made possible through the generous sponsorship of
Colonel Aubrey Gibson. To both these people we extend our thanks.
The seminar itself could not have taken place, of course, without:
considerable assistance from a number of sources. We are extremely
grateful in particular to the Australian-American Educational
Foundation, the Commonwealth Office of Education, the Human-
ities Research Council of Canada, the University of Oxford, the
University of Saskatchewan, and the Victoria University of Welling-
ton. Through their help we were able to bring together for the
seminar scholars from the United States and Canada, from the
United Kingdom, and from New Zealand. Many Australian univer-
sities also contributed to the cost of sending speakers and seminar
members to Canberra for the occasion.
It is pleasant and not unjustified to think that David Nichol
Smith would have thoroughly approved the notion of holding a
conference on the eighteenth century in the Antipodes—despite
Johnson's firm advice to Boswell that nothing could be learnt from
a visit to the regions of 'Otaheité and New-Zealand'. D.N.S. was
amongst the first to recognise and welcome the extent to which the
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Notes on Contributors
AUSTIN, M. N., M.A., B.D., Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University
of Western Australia. Professor Austin is the author of An Ignorant Man
Thinking (essays and addresses on classical and university education), and
Samuel Johnson on Education.
BRISSENDEN, R. F., M.A., PH.D., Senior Research Fellow in the History of Ideas,
Australian National University. Dr Brissenden has published monographs
and articles on eighteenth-century and contemporary literature. At the
moment he is working on a study of sentimentalism, and on editions of
Pamela and Joseph Andrews.
BURKE, Joseph, M.A., O.B.E., Herald Professor of Fine Arts, University of
Melbourne. Professor Burke has published a critical edition of William
Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty and autobiographical notes, as well as numer-
ous articles on eighteenth-century English art. He is at present engaged on
Volume IX of the Oxford History of English Art.
CAMERON, W. J., M.A., PH.D., Professor of English, McMaster University. Pro-
fessor Cameron's main work has been in bibliography. He is an advisory
editor of Biography, and is editor of Volume V of the Yale edition of Poems
on Affairs of State. The Short Title Catalogue, 1701-1800, of books held in
the libraries of the Australian Capital Territory, published by the National
Library as a contribution to the David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, was
prepared under his supervision.
CASH, Arthur H., A.B., M.S., PH.D., Professor of English, State University College,
New Paltz, New York. Professor Cash, author of Sterne's Comedy of Moral
Sentiments and numerous articles on Sterne, is currently writing a full-scale
biography of the novelist. He will be program chairman for the Bicentenary
Conference on Laurence Sterne to be held at York University in 1968. His
paper unfortunately was not delivered at the seminar as Professor Cash
found himself at the last minute unable to be present.
COHEN, Ralph., M.A., PH.D., Member of the Center for Advanced Studies and
Professor of English, University of Virginia. Professor Cohen is on the
editorial board of Eighteenth Century Studies, and is an advisory editor to
the Augustan Reprint Society. He is the author of The Art of Discrimination,
and editor of The Essential Works of David Hume.
DAVIS, Herbert J., F.B.A., LL.D., LITT.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford.
Professor Davis was a most distinguished scholar, and also a friend and
colleague of David Nichol Smith. His monumental edition of Swift's Prose,
and his numerous critical discussions of that author's work, rank among
the major contributions of our day to eighteenth century studies. His
memorial address on D.N.S. was the highlight of the seminar, and it is an
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occasion for very great regret that he is not alive to see its appearance in
print in this volume.
FORD, Franklin L., PH.D., Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of
Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. Professor Ford touched on various
aspects of the Enlightenment in two books, Robe and Sword: The Regroup-
ing of the French Aristocracy after Louis XIV, and Strasbourg in Transition,
1648-1789. He has also written sections dealing with the period for Columbia
University's Chapters in Contemporary Civilization, and for the newly
published Traditions of The Western World.
GRAVE, S. A., M.A., PH.D., Professor of Philosophy, University of Western
Australia. Professor Grave, who took his doctorate at Aberdeen, is the
author of The Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense.
HARDY, John, M.A., D.PHIL., Professor of English, University of New England;
formerly a Junior Research Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and
Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. Professor Hardy was an
editor of, and contributor to, Johnson, Boswell and their Circle. His edition
of Johnson's major political writings is in press. He is presently working on
editions of Rasselas and the Life of Milton, and on a study of Johnson's
criticism of Shakespeare.
HOPE, A. D., B.A., Professor of English, Australian National University. Pro-
fessor Hope is the author of several volumes of poetry, and of a collection
of critical essays, The Cave and the Spring. In 1966 he shared the Britannica
Australia Award for literature.
HORNE, Colin J., M.A., B.LITT., Jury Professor of English Language and Litera-
ture, University of Adelaide. Professor Home is the editor of Swift on His
Age, and a contributor to the eighteenth-century volume of The Pelican
Guide to English Literature. He has published articles on several authors
of the period, and is preparing a book on Swift's poetry.
SPATE, O. H. K., M.A., PH.D., Professor of Geography, Dean of the Research
School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. Professor Spate
took the English Tripos Part I at Cambridge before going on to geography.
His publications, which cover a wide range of themes in history and
geography, generally have a literary bias. This is perhaps best illustrated in
his volume of essays, entitled Let Me Enjoy.
TISCH, Johann Hermann, D.PHIL., Professor of German, joint Head of the
Department of Modern Languages, University of Tasmania. Professor Tisch
is particularly interested in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century German
and comparative literature, and has produced articles on the concept of
baroque, on Gryphius, Milton, Gottsched, the Early Enlightenment, and
Schiller. He is presently working on a book on the reception of Milton in
Germany and on a study of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century drama.
WATT, Ian Pierre, M.A., Professor of English, Stanford University. Educated at
St John's College, Cambridge, The Sorbonne, University of California, and
Harvard, Professor Watt is the author of The Rise of the Novel: Studies in
Defoe, Richardson and Fielding, 1957, and of numerous articles on
eighteenth-century and modern literature.
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