Explores three canonical texts of 1740s England that critique the class, geography, and gender assumptions of the exemplar model. Through readings of Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray and Samuel Richardson, Sarabeth Grant locates practices of constituting history and registering national identity in eighteenth-century England beyond that tradition.

Explores three canonical texts of 1740s England that critique the class, geography, and gender assumptions of the exemplar model. Through readings of Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray and Samuel Richardson, Sarabeth Grant locates practices of constituting history and registering national identity in eighteenth-century England beyond that tradition.