Books in the Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature series

In this book, readers can explore a wide range of essays rooted in up-to-the-minute research examining the life, times and cultural contexts of the writer and philanthropist Hannah More (1745-1833). The book presents the fullest picture yet of this complex and compelling author, and the era she helped mould with her words.

This volume is the first to discuss the canon of Pope's verse in relation to Early British Enlightenment thinking about mythology and mythography. The book enhances appreciation of myth as a mode of apprehension as well as expression throughout Pope's verse.

This book discusses the intrusion of personal voice in British landscape poetry of the eighteenth century. It argues that strong conventions, such as those marking topographical verse of the period, invite original poets to overstep those bounds, providing cover for explorations into memory, personhood, and the workings of consciousness.

In this book, readers can explore a wide range of essays rooted in up-to-the-minute research examining the life, times and cultural contexts of the writer and philanthropist Hannah More (1745-1833). The book presents the fullest picture yet of this complex and compelling author, and the era she helped mould with her words.

Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain: An Archaeology of Empire is a provocative intervention that extends considerably the parameters of on-going dialogues about British identity during the Enlightenment.

Eliza Haywood¿s writing career spanned the gamut of genres: novels, plays, advice manuals, periodicals, propaganda, satire, and translations. This book demonstrates how she contributed to making women¿s writing a locus of debate to be taken seriously by contemporary readers, and by current scholars of the eighteenth century.

Based on close reading of a representative range of Defoe's writing, Borsing presents a study of Defoe's engagement with the concept of personal identity, exploring his construction of personae, his forays into different literary genres and the role of religion in his philosophy.

An investigation into 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. All three wrote in support of the treaty that was meant to effect that increase.

This book provides an account of the early periodical as a literary genre. Tracing the development of journalism from the 1690s to the 1760s, it covers a range of publications by well-known writers and obscure hacks.

Looking at developments in eighteenth-century drama that influenced the rise of the novel, this work begins by asking why women writers of this period experimented so frequently with both novels and plays.

In the second half of the eighteenth century the female reader was a frequent topic of cultural debate and moral concern. This book examines the variety of ways in which women 'read' the social world in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century novel.

Discusses the proper extent of women's participation in English public life during 1690s to the 1750s. This book reveals a critique of the early liberal public sphere being articulated by women writers who were keenly aware of the hierarchies and techniques of exclusion that contradicted their culture's appeals to the principles of equality.

This book argues that the way the eighteenth-century epistolary novel represented consciousness had a significant influence on the later novel, a view that had been largely ignored in most accounts of the development of the novel.

This book revisits heated discussions and adds new perspectives in light of growing awareness of Manley's contributions to 18th century literature. The methodological approaches incorporate traditional investigations, such as historical research, gender theory, and comparative close readings, as well as recently influential theories l

This study interprets eighteenth-century satire's famous typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment's "ocularcentric" epistemological paradigms, as well as to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly "visual" - a moment at which widespread attention was being paid, for the first time, to forma

Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain: An Archaeology of Empire is a provocative intervention that extends considerably the parameters of on-going dialogues about British identity during the Enlightenment.

This book revisits heated discussions and adds new perspectives in light of growing awareness of Manley¿s contributions to 18th century literature. The methodological approaches incorporate traditional investigations, such as historical research, gender theory, and comparative close readings, as well as recently influential theories like geocriticism and affect studies, and visit works that have had less attention. This book forges new paths in many underdeveloped directions, including her work¿s exploration of foreign locales, the power dynamics between individuals and in relation to states, sexuality beyond heteronormativity, and the shifting operations and influences of genre.