The original tale of a castaway struggling to survive on a remote desert island, and one of the f...

Explores a major eighteenth-century narrative and the power of the Crusoe figure beyond the pages...

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

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

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

Daniel Defoe had an eventful and adventurous life as a merchant, politician, spy and literary hac...

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...

In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain...

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

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...

A comprehensive and innovative guide to the British novel in its formative decades.

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...

Explores a major eighteenth-century narrative and the power of the Crusoe figure beyond the pages...

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...

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

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...

Offering essays on the range of English literature produced in the late seventeenth and eighteent...

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...

The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early nov...

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

A survey of Defoe's career and writings aimed at students, with readings of his major works.

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 ...

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

Locke, Berkeley, and Hume have profoundly influenced moral and political thought. Yet their persu...

What do Pamela, Shamela, and Evelina have in common? Who is Coningsby? Where is The Moonstone? Wh...

The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe's writing in the context of what is k...

A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is a lively exploration of one of the most div...

The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe's writing in the context of what is k...

The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 offers readers discussions of the entire r...

A set of reference works on the history of English literature throughout the major periods of its...

For more than two hundred years, Robinson Crusoe's story was encountered by generations of reader...