Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Daniel Defoe and the Representation of Personal Identity
1st Edition
By Christopher Borsing
January 17, 2019
The concept of a personal identity was a contentious issue in the early eighteenth century. John Locke’s philosophical discussion of personal identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding fostered a public debate upon the status of an immortal Christian soul. This book argues that Defoe, like...
Mary Wollstonecraft, Pedagogy, and the Practice of Feminism
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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 ...
The Epistolary Novel: Representations of Consciousness
1st Edition
By Joe Bray
February 25, 2014
The epistolary novel is a form which has been neglected in most accounts of the development of the novel. This book argues that the way that the eighteenth-century epistolary novel represented consciousness had a significant influence on the later novel. Critics have drawn a distinction between the...
Originality and Intellectual Property in the French and English Enlightenment
1st Edition
Edited
By Reginald McGinnis
October 10, 2012
Are legal concepts of intellectual property and copyright related to artistic notions of invention and originality? Do literary and legal scholars have anything to learn from each other, or should the legal debate be viewed as separate from questions of aesthetics? Bridging what are usually ...
The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century: Anxious Employment
1st Edition
By Iona Italia
September 25, 2012
Recent years have witnessed a heightened interest in eighteenth-century literary journalism and popular culture. This book provides an account of the early periodical as a literary genre and traces the development of journalism from the 1690s to the 1760s, covering a range of publications by both ...
Gender and the Fictions of the Public Sphere, 1690-1755
1st Edition
By Anthony Pollock
March 12, 2012
Challenging the longstanding interpretation of the early English public sphere as polite, inclusive, and egalitarian this book re-interprets key texts by representative male authors from the period—Addison, Steele, Shaftesbury, and Richardson—as reactionary responses to the widely-consumed and...
Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction: Novels and the Theater, Haywood to Austen
1st Edition
By Emily Hodgson Anderson
October 11, 2011
This study looks at developments in eighteenth-century drama that influenced the rise of the novel; it begins by asking why women writers of this period experimented so frequently with both novels and plays. Here, Eliza Haywood, Frances Burney, Elizabeth Inchbald, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen ...
The Female Reader in the English Novel: From Burney to Austen
1st Edition
By Joe Bray
July 14, 2010
This book examines how reading is represented within the novels of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Contemporary accounts portrayed the female reader in particular as passive and impressionable; liable to identify dangerously with the world of her reading. This study shows that ...
Thomas Reid and Scepticism: His Reliabilist Response
1st Edition
By Philip De Bary, Philip de Bary
January 25, 2002
This book bears witness to the current reawakening of interest in Reid's philosophy. It first examines Reid's negative attack on the Way of Ideas, and finds him to be a devastating critic of his predecessors. Turning to the positive part of Reid's programme, the author then develops a fresh ...