Description: The Cambridge history of English literature, 1660-1780

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The Cambridge history of English literature, 1660-1780

Other Authors:	Richetti, John J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Physical Description:	xviii, 945 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series:	New Cambridge history of English literature.
Subjects:	English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.

Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 833-912) and index. Introduction / John Richetti -- Publishing and bookselling 1660-1780 / James Raven -- The social world of authorship 1660-1714 / Dustin Griffin -- Popular entertainment and instruction, literary and dramatic; chapbooks, advice books, almanacs, ballads, farces, pantomimes, prints and shows / Lance Bertelsen -- Novels on the market / William B. Warner -- Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama / Harold Love -- Dryden and the poetic career / Steven N. Zwicker -- Political, satirical, didactic and lyric poetry (I): from the Restoration to the death of Pope / J. Paul Hunter -- Eighteenth-century women poets / Paula R. Backscheider -- Systems satire : Swift.com / Michael Seidel -- Persistence, adaptations and transformations in pastoral and Georgic poetry / David Fairer -- Political, satirical, didactic and lyric poetry (II): after Pope / John Sitter -- Drama and theatre in the mid and later eighteenth century / Robert D. Hume -- Scottish poetry and regional literary expression / Fiona Stafford -- History and literature 1660-1780 / Karen O'Brien -- A preliminary discourse on philosophy and literature / Michael B. Prince -- Britain and European literature and thought / Jeffrey Barnouw -- Religion and literature / Isabel Rivers -- Literary criticism and the rise of national literary history / Lawrence Lipking -- Augustan England and British America / William C. Dowling -- The eighteenth-century periodical essay / Robert Demaria, Jr. -- Public opinion and the political pamphlet / J.A. Downie -- Sentimental fiction : ethics, social critique and philanthropy / Thomas Keymer -- Folklore, antiquarianism, scholarship and high literary culture / Robert Folkenflik -- Personal letters / Patricia Meyer Spacks -- Diary and autobiography / Stuart Sherman -- The Gothic novel / Terry Castle -- Eighteenth-century travel literature / Carole Fabricant -- Women novelists 1740s-1780s / Felicity A. Nussbaum -- Burke and the uses of eloquence : political prose in the 1770s and 1780s / Frans de Bruyn -- More is different : literary change in the mid and late eighteenth century / Clifford Siskin.
Physical Description:	xviii, 945 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 833-912) and index.
ISBN:	0521781442 9780521781442