The Eighteenth-Century British Verse Epistle
The Eighteenth-Century British Verse Epistle

Author: B. Overton

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-10-23

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0230593461

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This is the first book to cover the whole range of epistolary verse in the period, including the discursive type favoured by Pope and the familiar and dramatic epistles. It advances a new model for defining the form, demonstrates the form's importance in the period, and pays attention to non-canonical epistles by women and labouring-class writers.

English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789
English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789

Author: David Fairer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-13

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1317892879

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In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer’s book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional understanding of the subject. This book seeks to question some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. In doing so Fairer offers a fresh and detailed look at a wide range of material.

The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse
The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse

Author: Roger Lonsdale

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2009-03-26

Total Pages: 1800

ISBN-13: 0191501425

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No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such poets as Pope, Swift, Tomson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, and Blake. In addition, the anthology includes verse by many forgotten writers, both men and women, from all levels of society. Although they have never figured in conventional literary history, they wrote humorous, idiosyncratic, and graphic verse about their personal experience and the world around them, in a way that should challenge received ideas about the period's restraints and inhibitions.

Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne
Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne

Author: A. D. Cousins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-29

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1000264033

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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 Queen Anne and just beyond. It focuses, in particular, on his interaction with the courtly culture constellated round the Queen. It examines, for instance, his representations of Queen Anne herself, his portrayals of politics and patronage under her reign, his negotiations with current literary theory, with the classical tradition, with chronologically distant yet also contemporaneous English poets, with current thought on the passions, and with membership of a religious minority. In doing so, it comprehensively reconsiders anew the ways in which Pope, increasingly supportive of Anne’s rule and mindful of the Virgilian rota, sought at first to realise his authorial aspirations.

British Women Writers and the Profession of Literary Criticism, 1789-1832
British Women Writers and the Profession of Literary Criticism, 1789-1832

Author: M. Waters

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-08-04

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0230514510

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This book examines professional literary criticism by Romantic-era British women to reveal that, while developing a conscious professionalism, women literary critics helped to shape the aesthetic models that defined Romantic-era literary values and made the British literary heritage a source of national pride. Women critics understood the contested nature of aesthetics and the public implications of aesthetic values on questions such as morality, both public and private, the nation's cultural heritage, even the essential qualities of Britishness itself.

The Sinews of Power
The Sinews of Power

Author: John Brewer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 113499852X

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First published in 1989. `The book is a distinguished work - of importance to students of governmental development generally. It is written in a fluent, non-technical manner that should reach a wide audience.' American Historical Review.

Eighteenth-Century British Erotica, Part II vol 1
Eighteenth-Century British Erotica, Part II vol 1

Author: Janine Barchas

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1040245498

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Comprises a variety of topics, from prostitution to flatulence, and paints a picture of the real and imaginative worlds inhabited by the people of eighteenth-century Britain. This title features a volume dedicated to homosexuality. It is intended for students of eighteenth century culture, queer theory, history of sexuality and book history.