Eighteenth-century Contexts

Eighteenth-century Contexts

Author: Howard D. Weinbrot

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780299174804

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This text offers an array of essays that consider literary, intellectual, political, theological and cultural aspects of the years 1650-1800, in the British Isles and Europe. At the centre of the book is Jonathan Swift; other essays discuss Alexander Pope, 18th-century music and poetry, William Congreve, James Boswell, Samuel Richardson, and women's novels of the 18th century.