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The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 offers readers discussions of the entire range of literary expression from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century. In essays by thirty distinguished scholars, recent historical perspectives and new critical approaches and methods are brought to bear on the classic authors and texts of the period. Forgotten or neglected authors and themes as well as new and emerging genres within the expanding marketplace for printed matter during the eighteenth century receive special attention and emphasis. The volume's guiding purpose is to examine the social and historical circumstances within which literary production and imaginative writing take place in the period and to evaluate the enduring verbal complexity and cultural insights they articulate so powerfully.

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• List of illustrations(p. xi)
• Acknowledgements(p. xii)
• Notes on contributors(p. xiii)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• Part I Literary Production and Dissemination: Changing Audiences and Emerging Media
• 1 Publishing and bookselling 1660-1780(p. 11)
• 2 The social world of authorship 1660-1714(p. 37)
• 3 Popular entertainment and instruction, literary and dramatic: chapbooks, advice books, almanacs, ballads, farces, pantomimes, prints and shows(p. 61)
• 4 Novels on the market(p. 87)
• Part II Literary Genres: Adaptation and Reformation
• 5 Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama(p. 107)
• 6 Dryden and the poetic career(p. 132)
• 7 Political, satirical, didactic and lyric poetry (I): from the Restoration to the death of Pope(p. 160)
• 8 Eighteenth-century women poets(p. 209)
• 9 Systems satire: Swift.com(p. 235)
• 10 Persistence, adaptations and transformations in pastoral and Georgic poetry(p. 259)
• 11 Political, satirical, didactic and lyric poetry (II): after Pope(p. 287)
• 12 Drama and theatre in the mid and later eighteenth century(p. 316)
• 13 Scottish poetry and regional literary expression(p. 340)
• Part III Literature and Intellectual Life: The Production and Transmission of Culture
• 14 History and literature 1660-1780(p. 363)
• 15 A preliminary discourse on philosophy and literature(p. 391)
• 16 Britain and European literature and thought(p. 423)
• 17 Religion and literature(p. 445)
• 18 Literary criticism and the rise of national literary history(p. 471)
• 19 Augustan England and British America(p. 498)
• Part IV Literature and Social and Institutional Change
• 20 The eighteenth-century periodical essay(p. 525)
• 21 Public opinion and the political pamphlet(p. 549)
• 22 Sentimental fiction: ethics, social critique and philanthropy(p. 572)
• 23 Folklore, antiquarianism, scholarship and high literary culture(p. 602)
• Part V Literary Genres: Transformation and New Forms of Expressiveness
• 24 Personal letters(p. 623)
• 25 Diary and autobiography(p. 649)
• 26 The Gothic novel(p. 673)
• 27 Eighteenth-century travel literature(p. 707)
• 28 Women novelists 1740s-1780s(p. 745)
• 29 Burke and the uses of eloquence: political prose in the 1770s and 1780s(p. 768)
• Part VI Conclusion
• 30 More is different: literary change in the mid and late eighteenth century(p. 795)
• Chronology(p. 824)
• Bibliographies(p. 833)
• Index(p. 913)

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Much has changed since the publication of the old Cambridge History of English Literature (1907-27). Back then "literary history" meant a progression of great names--in other words, the canon laid out chronologically. In this volume in "The New Cambridge History of English Literature" series, Richetti (Univ. of Pennsylvania) and his distinguished contributors have put the "history" back into literary history. One finds little pious genuflection before the great names in British literature; only two authors, Dryden and Swift, get chapters to themselves. The other chapters put literature in a historical context by addressing genres (the novel, georgic poetry, periodical essays), social history (the book trade, copyright legislation), and topics once tangential to literature but now central (history, philosophy, folklore). The essays are clearly written, well informed, and up-to-date in their scholarship. Faculty will find this a convenient compendium of recent thinking on many topics; students will be grateful for a starting point; advanced scholars will even benefit from reading the thick volume from cover to cover. ^BSumming Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. J. T. Lynch Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark