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  • Revisiting Richardson

    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    The preoccupations of eighteenth-century novelist Samuel Richardson—the inequities of gender and sexuality; race and white femininity; masculinity, sadism, and control; religion and selfhood; authorship and artistic form—continue to resonate with contemporary readers. This fresh collection reconsiders his oeuvre, expanding and significantly updating critical debate on its meaning and importance. ... Read more

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  • Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson

    Resisting Secularism

    Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism contains seventeen essays exploring the complex relationships between literary intentions and theological concerns of authors writing in the second half of the eighteenth century. The diversity of literary forms and subjects, from Fielding and Richardson to Burke and Wollstonecraft, is matched by a diversity of approaches and ... Read more

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  • Reason and Religion in Clarissa

    Samuel Richardson and 'the Famous Mr. Norris, of Bemerton'

    What distinguishes Clarissa from Samuel Richardson's other novels is Richardson's unique awareness of how his plot would end. In the inevitability of its conclusion, in its engagement with virtually every category of human experience, and in its author's desire to communicate religious truth, E. Derek Taylor suggests, Clarissa truly is the Paradise Lost of the eighteenth century. Arguing that ... Read more

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  • Mary Astell and John Norris

    Letters Concerning the Love of God

    by Melvyn New ...
    Series series The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions
    Given the progress made in recent years in recovering the writings of early modern women, one might expect that a complete set of the important works of Mary Astell (1666-1731) would have been reissued long before now. Instead, only portions of the thought of the 'First English Feminist' have reached a wide academic audience. This volume presents a critical and annotated edition of the ... Read more

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  • Swiftly Sterneward

    Essays on Laurence Sterne and His Times in Honor of Melvyn New

    These thirteen essays have been collected to honor Melvyn New, professor emeritus (Florida), and are prefaced by a description of his scholarly career of more than forty years. Suggesting the wide range of that career, the first eight essays offer various critical perspectives on a diverse group of eighteenth-century authors. These include a reading of Eliot in the shadow of Pope; a comparison of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

    Edited by John Richetti ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel

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    Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the development of the English novel during the 'long' eighteenth century-in other words, from the later seventeenth century right through to the first three ... Read more

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  • Lewd and Notorious

    Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century

    Edited by Katharine Kittredge ...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

    Edited by Greg Clingham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and intellectual life of one of the most challenging and wide-ranging writers in English literary history. Compiler of the first great English dictionary, editor of Shakespeare, biographer and critic of the English poets, author both of the influential journal Rambler and the popular fiction ... Read more

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  • Reading Christopher Smart in the Twenty-first Century

    "By Succession of Delight"

    Edited by Min Wild, Noel Chevalier ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
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  • Revolutions in Taste, 1773–1818

    Women Writers and the Aesthetics of Romanticism

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