English literature: the eighteenth century.

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Eighteenth-Century English Literature: explores these issues in relation to well-known works by such authors as Defoe, Swift, Pope, Richardson, Gray, and Sterne, while also bringing attention to less familiar figures, such as Charlotte Smith, Mary Leapor, and Olaudah Equiano.

It offers both an ideal introduction for students and a fresh approach for those with research interests in the by: 2. This contains an excellent selection for the time period that it covers, truthfully though, you are probably better off with the Oxford Anthology of English Literature circa ISBN# as it contains the same selection of Restoration and Eighteenth Century literature in addition to the Medieval period and the Renaissance period/5(2).

A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is a lively exploration of one of the most diverse and innovative periods in literary history. Capturing the richness and excitement of the era, this book provides extensive coverage of major authors, poets, dramatists, and journalists of the period, such as Dryden, Pope and Swift, while also exploring the works of important writers who have received less Author: John Richetti.

A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is a lively exploration of one of the most diverse and innovative periods in literary history. Capturing the richness and excitement of the era, this book provides extensive coverage of major authors, poets, dramatists, and journalists of the period, such as Dryden, Pope and Swift, while also exploring the works of important writers who have.

English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century Leslie Stephen downloads; Lettres sur les Anglais. English Voltaire downloads; The Age of Pope John Dennis downloads; Romance: Two Lectures Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh 91 downloads; Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges William Makepeace Thackeray 67 downloads; Famous Reviews, Selected and Edited.

Special groups are the Edwards and Witherspoon libraries as well as the 18th century section of the Princetoniana [or (P)] collection. Major concentrations of English imprints are found in the Richardson classification sections for English history, literature, and religion of the General Rare Book Collection.

English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Filed under: English prose literature -- 18th century Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification (second edition, ), by Maria Edgeworth (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers).

English literature - English literature - The 18th century: The expiry of the Licensing Act in halted state censorship of the press.

During the next 20 years there were to be 10 general elections. These two factors combined to produce an enormous growth in the publication of political literature. English literature, the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day.

The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are treated separately under American literature, Australian literature, Canadian literature, and New Zealand literature. Yet she accepts her fate with a moving acceptance in this landmark of English realistic fiction.

Candide by Voltaire (). In this withering satire of ­ eighteenth-century optimism, Candide wanders the world testing his tutor Pangloss’s belief that we live in the “best of all possible worlds.”.

The Eighteenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, (Longman Literature in English) (2nd Edition) 2nd Edition by James Sambrook (Author) › Visit Amazon's James Sambrook Page.

Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Cited by: Roy Porter knows his stuff. "English Society in the 18th Century" is the latest of his books that I have bought for a research project. Not only does he provide an entertaining introduction and a clear breakdown of the direction of his book in the table of contents, he also presents a thorough index of the book /5(61).

←Books published in the 18th century → s books Subcategories. This category has the following 17 subcategories, out of 17 total. Filed under: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c), by.

European literature of the 18th century refers to literature (poetry, drama, satire, and novels) produced in Europe during this period. The 18th century saw the development of the modern novel as literary genre, in fact many candidates for the first novel in English date from this period, of which Daniel Defoe 's Robinson Crusoe is probably the best known.

Telling the Time in British Literature, Hours of Folly. 1st Edition. Marcus Tomalin Ap Although the broad topic of time and literature in the long eighteenth century has received focused attention from successive generations of literary critics, this book adopts a radically new approach to the subject.

In the 18th century, travel literature was commonly known as the book of travels, which mainly consisted of maritime diaries. In 18th-century Britain, almost every famous writer worked in the travel literature form.

Captain James Cook's diaries () were the equivalent of today's best-sellers. James Noggle (Ph.D. UC Berkeley) is Professor of English at Wellesley College. He is author of The Skeptical Sublime: Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists; his second book, The Temporality of Taste in Eighteenth-Century British Writing, is forthcoming from Oxford.

He is the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of /5(16). Eighteenth-Century English Literature This is taken from William J. Long's Outlines of English and American Literature.] In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold: Alike fantastic if too new or old.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online containsprinted works comprising more than 26 million scanned facsimile pages of English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom between the years and While the majority of works in ECCO are in the English language, researchers will also discover a rich vein of works printed in Dutch, French, German, Italian.

The Eighteenth Century in England is called the Classical Age or the Augustan Age in literature. It is also called the Age of Good Sense or the Age of Reason. Though Dryden belonged to the seventeenth century, he is also included in the Classical or Augustan Age, as during his time the characteristics of his age had manifested themselves and he himself represented them to a great extent.Dr.

Johnson, who carried the arts of criticism and conversation to new heights, both typified and helped to form midth-century views of life, literature, and conduct.

The drama of the 18th cent. failed to match that of the Restoration.In this book, Catharina Löffler traces the psycho-physical experiences of London walkers in eighteenth-century literature. For this purpose, readings of fascinating, exciting, comical and sometimes disturbing texts grant insights into a culturally, historically and socially significant time in.