A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405101180 ISBN 13: 9781405101189

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

Synopsis

This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature.

• Contributes to current debates in the field on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, and historical versus literary perceptions of life on London streets.
• Searches out connections between the remarkable number of new genres that appeared in the eighteenth century.
• Crosses conventional disciplinary lines.
• Demonstrates that philosophy, history, politics and social theory both influence and are influenced by literature.

About this title

About the Author

Cynthia Wall is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London (1998) and an editor of Pope and Defoe.

From the Back Cover

This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature and culture. In a series of original essays, it contributes to current debates in the field on subjects as diverse as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, gardening, and historical versus literary perceptions of life on London streets. It also discusses the changing nature of poetry, drama, periodical essays, the novel, and literary criticism, searching out connections between the remarkable number of new genres that appeared in the eighteenth century.

The contributors include both familiar names and newcomers to the field. Each of them combines meticulous scholarship with clear, engaging writing and vivid, innovative perceptions on the relationships between literature and culture. Crossing conventional disciplinary lines, they demonstrate how philosophy, history, politics and social theory both influenced and were influenced by literature in this period.

The contributors include both familiar names and newcomers to the field. Each of them combines meticulous scholarship with clear, engaging writing and vivid, innovative perceptions on the relationships between literature and culture. Crossing conventional disciplinary lines, they demonstrate how philosophy, history, politics and social theory both influenced and were influenced by literature in this period.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405101180
• ISBN 13: 9781405101189
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Wall Cynthia