The Cambridge history of English literature, 1660-1780 History of English literature, 1660-1780 English literature, 1660-1780 edited by John Richetti. - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2005. - xviii, 945 p. ill. 24 cm. - The new Cambridge history of English literature .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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 -- 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.

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English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--17th century.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--18th century.
English literature--History and criticism.--17th century

PR442 / .C36 2005

820.9005 / C1781