{"product_id":"a-history-of-eighteenthcentury-british-literature-9781405135023","title":"A History of EighteenthCentury British Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature\u003c\/i\u003e is a lively exploration of one of the most diverse and innovative periods in literary history. Capturing the richness and excitement of the era, this book provides extensive coverage of major authors, poets, dramatists, and journalists of the period, such as Dryden, Pope and Swift, while also exploring the works of important writers who have received less attention by modern scholars, such as Matthew Prior and Charles Churchill. Uniquely, the book also discusses noncanonical, working-class writers and demotic works of the era.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDuring the eighteenth-century, Britain experienced vast social, political, economic, and existential changes, greatly influencing the literary world. The major forms of verse, poetry, fiction and non-fiction, experimental works, drama, and political prose from writers such as Montagu, Finch, Johnson, Goldsmith and Cowper, are discussed here in relation to their historical context. \u003ci\u003eA History of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Verse in the Early Eighteenth Century, I: Pope, Gay, Swift 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Verse in the Early Eighteenth Century, II: Prior, Addison, Defoe, Finch, Montagu, Thomson 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 English Verse, III: Mid-Century Onwards: Johnson, Gray, the Wartons, Collins, Smart, Watts, Goldsmith, Churchill, Cowper 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Eighteenth-Century Verse, IV: Women, Workers, and Non-Elite Poets 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Prose Fiction in the Early Eighteenth Century: Behn, Haywood, Defoe, Swift 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Prose Fiction in the Mid-Eighteenth Century: Richardson, Fielding, Smollett 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Novel Past Mid-Century: New Directions and Experiments: Johnson, Sterne, Mackenzie, Walpole, Goldsmith, Burney 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Non-Fictional Prose, I: Addison to Burke 254\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Non-Fictional Prose, II: Political and Polemical Prose 291\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Eighteenth-Century Drama: Sentimental Pathos, Melodrama, and Humor 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 357\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529332334935,"sku":"9781405135023","price":67.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405135023.jpg?v=1731875205","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-history-of-eighteenthcentury-british-literature-9781405135023","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}