A history of eighteenth-century British literature / John Richetti, University of Pennsylvania.
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2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Blackwell histories of literature ;
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Table of Contents:
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Verse in the Early Eighteenth Century, I
- I. Alexander Pope
- II. John Gay
- III. Swift the Poet
- 2 Verse in the Early Eighteenth Century, II
- I. Matthew Prior and Joseph Addison
- II. Daniel Defoe, Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Thomson
- 3 English Verse, III: Midâ#x80;#x90;Century Onwards
- I. Johnson, Gray, Joseph and Thomas Warton, Collins, Smart, Watts
- II. Goldsmith, Churchill, Cowper
- 4 Eighteenthâ#x80;#x90;Century Verse, IV.
- 5 Prose Fiction in the Early Eighteenth CenturyI. Predecessors: Behn and Haywood
- II. Defoe and Prose Fiction
- III. Swift and Gulliverâ#x80;#x99;s Travels
- 6 Prose Fiction in the Midâ#x80;#x90;Eighteenth Century
- I. Richardson
- II. Fielding
- III. Smollett
- 7 The Novel Past Midâ#x80;#x90;Century: New Directions and Experiments
- I. Johnson and Sterne
- II. Mackenzie and Walpole
- III. Goldsmith and Burney
- 8 Nonâ#x80;#x90;Fictional Prose, I
- I. An Age of Prose: Familiar Letters: Pope, Swift, Johnson, Walpole
- II. James Boswell and Edward Gibbon.
- III. Social and Moral Prose: The Periodical EssayIV. Literary Criticism
- 9 Nonâ#x80;#x90;Fictional Prose, II
- I. Defoe and Swift
- II. Burke, Johnson, Hume
- 10 Eighteenthâ#x80;#x90;Century Drama
- I. Restoration Reâ#x80;#x90;establishment of the English Theater
- II. Eighteenthâ#x80;#x90;Century Tragedy
- III. Comic Drama in the Eighteenth Century
- Index.