Slavery played an important part in early eighteenth-century English society. It created markets, provided goods and drove political decision. It also exerted an influence on the ways in which people behaved and thought. Some of the mental habits associated with slavery are to be found in the writing of the period. Slavery and Augustan Literature investigates slavery in the work of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay. These three writers were connected with a Tory ministry, which attempted to increase substantially the English share of the international slave trade. They all wrote in...
Slavery played an important part in early eighteenth-century English society. It created markets, provided goods and drove political decision. It also...
Recent years have witnessed a heightened interest in eighteenth-century literary journalism and popular culture. This book provides an account of the early periodical as a literary genre and traces the development of journalism from the 1690s to the 1760s, covering a range of publications by both well-known and obscure writers. The book's central theme is the struggle of eighteenth-century journalists to attain literary respectability and the strategies by which editors sought to improve the literary and social status of their publications.
Recent years have witnessed a heightened interest in eighteenth-century literary journalism and popular culture. This book provides an account of the ...
Challenging the longstanding interpretation of the early English public sphere as polite, inclusive, and egalitarian this bookre-interprets key texts by representative male authors from the period-Addison, Steele, Shaftesbury, and Richardson-as reactionary responses to the widely-consumed and surprisingly subversive work of women writers such as Mary Astell, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood, whose political and journalistic texts have up until now received little scholarly consideration. By analyzing a wide range of materials produced between the 1690s to the 1750s, Pollock...
Challenging the longstanding interpretation of the early English public sphere as polite, inclusive, and egalitarian this bookre-interpre...
This study interprets 18th-century satire's typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment's 'ocularcentric' epistemological paradigms, and to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly 'visual'.
This study interprets 18th-century satire's typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment's 'ocularcentric' epistemological parad...
This volume furthers research in the field by providing a study of the legal and historical context to re-examine our current assumptions about supposed earlier Enlightenment and Romantic ideals of individual authorship and originality.
This volume furthers research in the field by providing a study of the legal and historical context to re-examine our current assumptions about suppos...
This book discusses sex and death in the eighteenth-century, an era that among other forms produced the Gothic novel, commencing the prolific examination of the century's shifting attitudes toward death and uncovering literary moments in which sexuality and death often conjoined. By bringing together various viewpoints and historical relations, the volume contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which the century approached an increasingly modern sense of sexuality and mortality. It not only provides part of the needed discussion of the...
This book discusses sex and death in the eighteenth-century, an era that among other forms produced the Gothic novel, commencing the prolific exami...
Iona Italia provides an account of the early periodical as a literary genre. Tracing the development of journalism from the 1690s to the 1760s, the text covers a range of publications by well-known writers and obscure hacks.
Iona Italia provides an account of the early periodical as a literary genre. Tracing the development of journalism from the 1690s to the 1760s, the te...
This study examines Mary Wollstonecraft - generally recognized as the founder of the early feminist movement - by shedding light on her relationship to eighteenth-century instructional literature and its influence on educational theorists of her day, and feminist pedagogy in particular.
This study examines Mary Wollstonecraft - generally recognized as the founder of the early feminist movement - by shedding light on her relationship t...
Slavery and Augustan Literature investigates slavery in the work of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay. These three writers were connected with a Tory ministry, which attempted to increase substantially the English share of the international slave trade. They all wrote in support of the treaty that was meant to effect that increase. The book begins with contemporary ideas about slavery, with the Tory ministry years and with texts written during those years. These texts tend to obscure the importance of the slave trade to Tory planning. In its second half, the book analyses the...
Slavery and Augustan Literature investigates slavery in the work of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay. These three writers were connected wi...
The epistolary novel is a form which has been neglected in most accounts of the development of the novel. This book argues that the way that the eighteenth-century epistolary novel represented consciousness had a significant influence on the later novel. Critics have drawn a distinction between the self at the time of writing and the self at the time at which events or emotions were experienced. This book demonstrates that the tensions within consciousness are the result of a continual interaction between the two selves of the letter-writer and charts the oscillation between these two selves...
The epistolary novel is a form which has been neglected in most accounts of the development of the novel. This book argues that the way that the eight...
