This seminal edition includes comprehensive annotation, the 1712 version of the poem as well as the 1714 version, and substantial critical material in appendices. No student of Pope can afford to be without this classic edition.
In the first full-length study of the figure of the female libertine in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century literature, Laura Linker examin..
Surveying the literary and cultural landscapes of the long eighteenth century, this collection examines the many locales that shaped Britons’ affiliat..
Focusing on the role of genre in the formation of dominant conceptions of death and dying, Desirée Henderson examines literary texts and social spaces..
Challenging the idea that fantastic literature emerged in the Romantic period, Sandner shows that fantastic tales were popular throughout the eighteen..
In the first book-length study of this important poetic mode, Parisot suggests that graveyard poetry is closely connected to the mid-eighteenth-centur..
Arguing for wit's importance beyond its use as a literary device, Lund traces the process by which writers in Restoration and eighteenth-century Engla..
The first essay collection devoted to Thomas Holcroft's life and work, this volume is a reassessment of his contributions to a remarkable range of lit..
In the eighteenth century, literary representations of slavery encompassed a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic sl..
Mapping the relationship between gender and space in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, this collection explores new cartogr..
Spanning public and private, documentary and the imaginative, the writings collected here evoke the physical and social atmosphere and the cultural li..
This book discusses sex and death in the eighteenth-century, an era that among other forms produced the Gothic novel, commencing the prolific examinat..
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to..