In his long career as a writer Daniel Defoe never tired of advocating the value of personal obser...

Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion during the period 1660 1780, and the reaction...

This study sets out to investigate the theoretical and especially the interpretative bases of eig...

Exploration of the meaning of 'history' and its relevance for the origins of the modern English n...

A reappraisal of the work of five major narrative historians (Voltaire, Hume, Robertson, Gibbon a...

This study restores Defoe's writings and ideas to their seventeenth-century context.

This is the first full study of one of the most popular and extensive forms of eighteenth-century...

The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy offers rhetorical and literary analyses of four of his majo...

Jonathan Swift's prose has been discussed extensively as satire, but its major structural element...

Edmond Malone (1741-1812) was the greatest early editor of Shakespeare's works, the first histori...

Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion during the period 1660 1780, and the reaction...

Simon Varey relates the idea of spatial design in the major novels of Defoe, Fielding and Richard...

This study analyzes 'enthusiastic' writing from the Ranters to Swift, and explores madness and sa...

Written as a collection of letters in which very different accounts of the action are unsupervise...

Richard Braverman's study of literary and political plots looks at the ways in which the rhetoric...

Recent research into a self-taught tradition of English rural poetry has radically changed our vi...

This study of sensibility in the eighteenth-century English novel discusses literary representati...

The presentation of poetry to auditor and reader involves a complex interaction of rhetorical, or...

This volume is concerned with radical prose from the period 1642 60.

Bridges the gap between philosophical and literary-critical discussions of Locke's Essay concerni...

How was Alexander Pope's personal experience of women transformed into poetry? How characteristic...

An original study of the early eighteenth century's financial revolution in the literature of the...

This book discusses the intersection between philosophy and literature during the British Enlight...

Second volume of widely praised study of religion and ethics in the eighteenth century.

This study sets out to investigate the theoretical and especially the interpretative bases of eig...

The project of this book is to question and rewrite assumptions about the nature of the Augustan ...

Carol Flynn's challenging approach reviews the cost of being human, the 'expense' of material as ...

This book aims to account for that stability. It ask what about fables encouraged their survival,...

The Triumph of Augustan Poetics offers an important and original reevaluation of the transition f...

Tim Fulford examines landscape description in the writings of Thomson, Cowper, Johnson, Gilpin, R...

Second volume of widely praised study of religion and ethics in the eighteenth century.

This book discusses the intersection between philosophy and literature during the British Enlight...

Landscape descriptions examined in a wider context of eighteenth-century debates over liberty and...

A contextual reassessment of Swift's political writing concentrating on A Tale of a Tub and Gulli...

Jonathan Swift's prose has been discussed extensively as satire, but its major structural element...

Narratives of Enlightenment reappraises the work of five of the most important narrative historia...

The project of this book is to question and rewrite assumptions about the nature of the Augustan ...

The Triumph of Augustan Poetics offers an important and original reevaluation of the transition f...

Carol Flynn's challenging approach reviews the cost of being human, the 'expense' of material as ...

The presentation of poetry to auditor and reader from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.

This critical introduction to Gulliver's Travels aims at giving a fresh and impartial account of ...

Pope's letters are fascinating documents, apart from his importance as a poet. Highly revealing o...