English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen

English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century

by Leslie Stephen

Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1955, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, ex-library with stamps to front and back endpapers, top and side fore-edges,  sticker residue to back endpaper, dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, chipping and small tears to edges and corners, sticker residue to spine, minor markings to jacket (see photographs)

“Literature, Sir Leslie Stephen concludes, in this famous series of lectures, “must be produced by the class which embodies the really vital and powerful currents of thought which are moulding society.  The great author must have a people behind him; utter both what he really thinks and feels and what is though and felt most profoundly by his contemporaries.  The history of eighteenth-century literature illustrates this.”