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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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