This engaging book introduces new readers of eighteenth-century texts to some of the major works, authors, and debates of a key period of literary history. Rather than simply providing a
chronological survey of the era, this book analyzes the impact of significant cultural developments on literary themes and formsÑincluding urbanization, colonial and mercantile expansion, the
emergence of the “public sphere,” and changes in sex and gender roles.
In eighteenth-century Britain, many of the things we take for granted about modern life were shockingly new: women appeared for the first time on stage; the novel began to dominate the literary
marketplace; people entertained the possibility that all human beings were created equal, and tentatively proposed that reason could triumph over superstition; ministers became more powerful
than kings, and the consumer emerged as a political force. Eighteenth-Century English Literature: 1660-1789 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 period.
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Tristram Shandy
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Essays in Romanticism 2015
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Masculinity in Middle Eastern Literature and Film
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The Cambridge Companion to Balzac
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Telling It Slant: Critical Approaches to Helen Oyeyemi
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Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry
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Plants That Speak, Souls That Sing : Transform Your Life with the Spirit of Plants
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Old Norse Mythology: Comparative Perspectives
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Memoir of Burns
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Edmund Spenser and the History of the Book
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Actividad Teatral En La Region De Toledo, 1612-1630: Estudio Y Documentos
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Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
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Samuel Beckett and Science
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The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe
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Ben Jonson
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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin
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Strange Vernaculars: How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English
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