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From Restoration poets and playwrights Dryden, Rochester and Behn, through to the great eighteenth-century novelists and satirists Richardson, Burney and Defoe, this volume discusses the key literary developments of the age. Covering important topics of debate, such as trade, expansion and slavery, nature, liberty, and print culture, this York Notes Companion also incorporates relevant critical theory throughout for a complete and wide-ranging introduction.
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From Restoration poets and playwrights Dryden, Rochester and Behn, through to the great eighteenth-century novelists and satirists Richardson, Burney and Defoe, this volume discusses the key literary developments of the age. Covering important topics of debate, such as trade, expansion and slavery, nature, liberty, and print culture, this York Notes Companion also incorporates relevant critical theory throughout for a complete and wide-ranging introduction.
Features + Benefits
Analysis of key texts and debates
Extended commentaries provide further in-depth analysis of individual texts
Notes contain extra context and explanations of literary terms
Historical, social and cultural contexts explored in introductory chapters and alongside discussions
Modern critical theory and perspectives in practice
Timelines and annotated further reading
Backcover
The Long Eighteenth Century, Literature 16601790
The York Notes Companion to the Long Eighteenth Century traces the development of literature in English from the poets and playwrights of the Restoration through to the great eighteenth-century novelists and satirists. Examining the cultural and intellectual contexts that shaped the work of writers from Dryden to Defoe, such as trade, colonial expansion, slavery, and print culture, the Companion offers close readings of texts, and guides students through the key literary theories and debates that inform the study of the literature of this period. Connecting texts with their historical and scholarly contexts, this is essential reading for any student of eighteenth century literature.
Each York Notes Companion provides:
Analysis of key texts and debates
Extended commentaries for further in-depth analysis of individual texts
Exploration of historical, social and cultural contexts
Annotations clarifying literary terms and events in history
Modern theoretical perspectives in practice
Timelines and annotated further reading
Penny Pritchard is a Lecturer in English Literature and Language at the University of Hertfordshire.
Part One: Introduction
Part Two: A cultural background
Part Three: Text, Writers and Contexts
Verse: John Dryden, Samuel Johnson and John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Extended commentary: Wilmot, The Imperfect Enjoyment (1680)
Drama: Aphra Behn, William Congreve and Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Extended commentary: Behn, The Rover (1677-81)
Political and social satire: Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and Mary Wortley Montagu
Extended commentary: Pope: The Rape of the Lock (1712-4)
Pastoral/Anti-Pastoral Poetry: James Thomson, Oliver Goldsmith, George Crabbe and William Cowper
Extended commentary: Crabbe, The Village (1783)
The Novel, Part I: John Bunyan, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson and Fanny Burney
Extended commentary: Haywood, Fantomina (1725)
The Novel Part II: Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, and Laurence Sterne
Extended commentary: Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1759-67)
Part Four: Critical theories and debates
Man, Nature and Liberty
Gender and Sexuality
Trade, Colonial Expansion and Slavery
A Culture of Print
Part Five: References and resources
Timeline
Further reading
Index
Product Description
From Restoration poets and playwrights Dryden, Rochester and Behn, through to the great eighteenth-century novelists and satirists Richardson, Burney and Defoe, this volume discusses the key literary developments of the age. Covering important topics of debate, such as trade, expansion and slavery, nature, liberty, and print culture, this York Notes Companion also incorporates relevant critical theory throughout for a complete and wide-ranging introduction.
Features + Benefits
Analysis of key texts and debates
Extended commentaries provide further in-depth analysis of individual texts
Notes contain extra context and explanations of literary terms
Historical, social and cultural contexts explored in introductory chapters and alongside discussions
Modern critical theory and perspectives in practice
Timelines and annotated further reading
Backcover
The Long Eighteenth Century, Literature 16601790
The York Notes Companion to the Long Eighteenth Century traces the development of literature in English from the poets and playwrights of the Restoration through to the great eighteenth-century novelists and satirists. Examining the cultural and intellectual contexts that shaped the work of writers from Dryden to Defoe, such as trade, colonial expansion, slavery, and print culture, the Companion offers close readings of texts, and guides students through the key literary theories and debates that inform the study of the literature of this period. Connecting texts with their historical and scholarly contexts, this is essential reading for any student of eighteenth century literature.
Each York Notes Companion provides:
Analysis of key texts and debates
Extended commentaries for further in-depth analysis of individual texts
Exploration of historical, social and cultural contexts
Annotations clarifying literary terms and events in history
Modern theoretical perspectives in practice
Timelines and annotated further reading
Penny Pritchard is a Lecturer in English Literature and Language at the University of Hertfordshire.
Part One: Introduction
Part Two: A cultural background
Part Three: Text, Writers and Contexts
Verse: John Dryden, Samuel Johnson and John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Extended commentary: Wilmot, The Imperfect Enjoyment (1680)
Drama: Aphra Behn, William Congreve and Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Extended commentary: Behn, The Rover (1677-81)
Political and social satire: Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and Mary Wortley Montagu
Extended commentary: Pope: The Rape of the Lock (1712-4)
Pastoral/Anti-Pastoral Poetry: James Thomson, Oliver Goldsmith, George Crabbe and William Cowper
Extended commentary: Crabbe, The Village (1783)
The Novel, Part I: John Bunyan, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson and Fanny Burney
Extended commentary: Haywood, Fantomina (1725)
The Novel Part II: Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, and Laurence Sterne
Extended commentary: Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1759-67)
Part Four: Critical theories and debates
Man, Nature and Liberty
Gender and Sexuality
Trade, Colonial Expansion and Slavery
A Culture of Print
Part Five: References and resources
Timeline
Further reading
Index
From Restoration poets and playwrights Dryden, Rochester and Behn, through to the great eighteenth-century novelists and satirists Richardson, Burney and Defoe, this volume discusses the key literary developments of the age. Covering important topics of debate, such as trade, expansion and slavery, nature, liberty, and print culture, this York Notes Companion also incorporates relevant critical theory throughout for a complete and wide-ranging introduction.
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