Books by Robert D. Spector

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When Samuel Johnson is discussed as an essayist, his and Idler are generally the works that are considered.

The first comprehensive guide to modern scholarship in the field, this annotated bibliography offers a wide-ranging survey of subjects that form the context of English literature from 1660 to 1800.

This work provides the first full-scale examination of the eighteenth century periodical Political Controversy and of the essay-sheets reprinted therein, Briton, Auditor, North Briton, and Monitor.

Although Smollett's obvious masculine sensibility has become a commonplace in criticism of the 18th-century novel, the basis and particularities of that sensibility have never been examined. This study attempts to show that in each category Smollett's treatment depends on the fictional purposes that these characters serve in his novels.