This book introduces the period and its discourse whilst redefining them, to give proper consideration to developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts. The book offers succinct and analytical introductions to the work of authors. An excellent book, which will serve as a sound and lively introduction for students, and also will, makes and impressive and substantial contribution to scholarly study of the English-century literature.
Contents:
The Eighteenth Century: Pseudo-Classicism and The Beginnings of Modern Romanticism,
Eighteenth-Century Thought,
Type of Literature in Eighteenth Century,
Drama in Eighteenth Century,
Primitivism in Eighteenth Century,
Novel in Eighteenth Century,
Poem in Eighteenth Century,
Periodicals in Eighteenth Century,
John Evelyn (1620-1706), John Dryden (1631-1700), Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), Thomas Otway (1652-1685),
John Dennis (1657- 1734), Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), Matthew Prior (1664-1721), Jonathan Swift (1667-1745),
Joseph Addison (1672-1719), Richard Steele (1672-1729), Edward Young (1683-1785), John Gay (1685- 1732),
Allan Ramsay (1685-1758), Alexander Pope (1688-1744), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773),
James Thomson (1700-1748), Henry Fielding (1707-1754), Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), Laurence Sterne (1713-1768),
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), Richard Hurd (1720-1808), William Collins (1721-1759), Mark Akenside (1721- 1770),
Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771), Christopher Smart (1722- 1771), Thomas Warton (1728-1790), Edmund Burke (1729-1797),
Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Charles Churchill (1731-1764), William Cowper (1731-1800), James Beattie (1735-1803),
James Macpherson (1736-1796), Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), James Boswell (1740-1795), Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale) (1741-1821),
Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), George Crabbe (1754-1832), Robert Burns (1759-1796),
Minor Authors.