James Hervey and Eighteenth-Century Taste (Ball State Monograph Number Fourteen; Publications in English, No. 9)

v, 50 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; Hervey's Style: Gothicism and the Macabre-Sublime - The Sublime - The Pathetic - The Elegant; Hervey's Use of Literary Forms: The Meditation - The Dialogue - The Letter - The Sermon; Hervey's Nontheological Subject Matter: Science - Gardens - Miscellaneous Topics: Duelling, Painting, Sculpture, Dress, Theater, Opera, Oratorio, Mingling of Christian and Pagan Motifs in a Christian Church - Ruins; Conclusion; Notes; List of Works Consulted. "James Hervey (26 February 1714 – 25 December 1758) was an English clergyman and writer."