{"product_id":"york-notes-companions-the-long-18th-century-9781408204733","title":"York Notes Companions The Long 18th Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Restoration poets and playwrights Dryden, Rochester and Behn, through to the great eighteenth-century novelists and satirists Richardson, Burney and Defoe, this volume discusses the key literary developments of the age. Covering important topics of debate, such as trade, expansion and slavery, nature, liberty, and print culture, this \u003ci\u003eYork Notes Companion\u003c\/i\u003e also incorporates relevant critical theory throughout for a complete and wide-ranging introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Pearson’s guide to the\u003ci\u003eLong 18th Century \u003c\/i\u003ewould be an extremely helpful resource to any student of A level to undergraduate level. It is a very easily readable guide to a century of dense social context; the book successfully manages to break this context down into easily comprehensible sections. One can easily dip in and out of the text; the subsections ensure that the writing is always focused and relevant and prevent one from getting lost in a mass of text. The style is academic, yet cogent and accessible and the index is thorough and comprehensive enough to make using the book very easy...\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe texts focused upon for the extended commentaries are well selected and overall it provides an essential guide to an era which can initially seem daunting in its range of innovations and heavily loaded political and social context.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Emily Scurrah, English Student, Warcwick University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: A cultural background\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three: Text, Writers and Contexts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerse: John Dryden, Samuel Johnson and John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e          Extended commentary: Wilmot, \u003ci\u003eThe Imperfect Enjoyment\u003c\/i\u003e (1680)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrama: Aphra Behn, William Congreve and Richard Brinsley Sheridan \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e          Extended commentary: Behn, \u003ci\u003eThe Rover\u003c\/i\u003e (1677-81)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitical and social satire: Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and Mary Wortley Montagu \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e          Extended commentary: Pope: \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRape of the Lock \u003c\/i\u003e(1712-4)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePastoral\/Anti-Pastoral Poetry: James Thomson, Oliver Goldsmith, George Crabbe and William Cowper\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e          Extended commentary: Crabbe, \u003ci\u003eThe Village\u003c\/i\u003e (1783)\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Novel, Part I: John Bunyan, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson and Fanny Burney  \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e          \u003c\/i\u003eExtended commentary: Haywood, \u003ci\u003eFantomina\u003c\/i\u003e (1725)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Novel Part II: Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, and Laurence Sterne\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e          Extended commentary: Sterne, \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy\u003c\/i\u003e (1759-67)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four:  Critical theories and debates  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMan, Nature and Liberty\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGender and Sexuality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrade, Colonial Expansion and Slavery\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Culture of Print \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Five: References and resources\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTimeline\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pearson Education Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359389843799,"sku":"9781408204733","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408204733.jpg?v=1754124512","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/york-notes-companions-the-long-18th-century-9781408204733","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}