The Works of Henry Mackenzie (Collected Works) - Hardcover

MacKenzie, Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415137446 ISBN 13: 9780415137447

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

This set provides a cross-section of Mackenzie's oeuvre from his more popular and approachable essays to a number of the volumes of his Synthetic Philosophy itself.

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Henry Mackenzie was one of the luminaries of the second phase of the Scottish Englightenment, and the exponent and arbiter of the sentimental taste in literature which swept Europe in the final quarter of the eighteenth century.

His novel in fragments The Man of Feeling [1771] was a hugely influential experiment in structure and in tone - its vogue inspired major literature from Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther to the lyrics of Robert Burns (who declared that he prized the work 'next to the Bible'). Two further novels, The Man of the World (1773) and Julia de Roubigne (1777), completed Mackenzie's trilogy of Sensibility. Mackzenzie was equally well known to his contemporaries for his editorship of the periodical essays The Mirror (1779) and The Lounger (1785-6); the latter contains his celebrated discovery for a genteel audience of the poetry of Burns. Most of Mackenzie's work has not been available since the original collected edition of 1808. The present facsimile collection makes the central literature of sensibility accessible for reassessment, as well as providing access to the critical writings of one of the major transitional writers of Enlightenment and Romantic Scotland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415137446
• ISBN 13: 9780415137447
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 3141
• Editor: Manning University Lecturer In English And Fellow Susan