Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Samuel Johnson and the Powers of Friendship
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By A. D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin, Dani Napton
April 13, 2025
This book is the first to assess Johnson’s diverse insights into friendship—that is to say, his profound as well as widely ranging appreciation of it—over the course of his long literary career. It examines his engagements with ancient philosophies of friendship and with subsequent reformulations ...
Thomas Gray among the Disciplines
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By Ruth Abbott, Ephraim Levinson
December 31, 2024
Throughout the 250 years that have passed since Thomas Gray’s death, he has primarily been celebrated as a poet. This makes sense because, although he published relatively little verse, he published less – indeed, precisely nothing – of his abundant polymathic writing in other fields. His place ...
Pope’s Mythologies: Alexander Pope and Myth in the Early British Enlightenment
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By A.D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin
October 08, 2024
This volume is the first to discuss the canon of Pope’s verse in relation to Early British Enlightenment thinking about mythology and mythography. Pope did not merely use classical (along with non-classical) mythology in his verse as a traditional, richly diverse medium through which to represent ...
Eighteenth-Century Transplantations: New Literary Lives, Forms and Contexts
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By Anna Paluchowska-Messing, Jakub Lipski, Joanna Maciulewicz
September 09, 2024
This collection studies eighteenth-century British literature as enmeshed within a dynamic intercultural traffic, participating in the import and export of literary and cultural forms. Eighteenth-Century Transplantations places this transcultural circulation at the centre of attention and presents ...
Writing the Poetry of Place in Britain, 1700–1807: Self in Landscape
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By Elizabeth R. Napier
May 27, 2024
This book discusses the intrusion, often inadvertent, of personal voice into the poetry of landscape in Britain, 1700– 1807. It argues that strong conventions, such as those that inhere in topographical verse of the period, invite original poets to overstep those bounds while also shielding them ...
Hannah More in Context
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By Kerri Andrews, Sue Edney
September 25, 2023
This book relocates the long life and literary career of the poet, playwright, novelist, philanthropist and teacher Hannah More (1745-1833) in the wider social and cultural contexts that shaped her, and which she helped shape in turn. One of the most influential writers and campaigners of the late ...
Narrating Cultural Encounter: Representations of India by Select Enlightenment Women Writers
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By Arnab Chatterjee
September 25, 2023
This book interrogates and historicises eighteenth-century British women writers’ responses to India through the novel and travel writing to bring out the polyvalent space arising out of their complex negotiation with the colonial discourse. Though British women enjoyed their privileged racial ...
A Spy on Eliza Haywood: Addresses to a Multifarious Writer
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By Aleksondra Hultquist, Chris Mounsey
May 31, 2023
Eliza Haywood was one of the most prolific English writers in the Age of the Enlightenment. Her career, from Love in Excess (1719) to her last completed project The Invisible Spy (1755) spanned the gamut of genres: novels, plays, advice manuals, periodicals, propaganda, satire, and translations. ...
Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne: Reconsiderations of His Early Career
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By A. D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin
May 31, 2023
This is the first collection of essays since George Sherburn’s landmark monograph The Early Career of Alexander Pope (1934) to reconsider how the most important and influential poet of eighteenth-century Britain fashioned his early career. The volume covers Pope’s writings from across the reign of ...
Marie Jeanne Riccoboni’s Epistolary Feminism: Fact, Fiction, and Voice
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By Marijn S. Kaplan
May 31, 2023
Marie Jeanne Riccoboni’s Epistolary Feminism: Fact, Fiction, and Voice argues that Riccoboni is among the most significant women writers of the French Enlightenment due to her "epistolary feminism". Locating its source in her first novel Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757), between fact and ...
Mary Wollstonecraft, Pedagogy, and the Practice of Feminism
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By Kirstin Hanley
August 23, 2018
This study examines Mary Wollstonecraft—generally recognized as the founder of the early feminist movement—by shedding light on her contributions to eighteenth-century instructional literature, and feminist pedagogy in particular. While contemporary scholars have extensively theorized ...
Slavery and Augustan Literature: Swift, Pope and Gay
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By Dr J Richardson
April 24, 2014
Slavery and Augustan Literature investigates 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. They all wrote in support of the ...