Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

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1. Originality and Intellectual Property in the French and English Enlightenment

   Edited by Reginald McGinnis

   Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

   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...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century

   Anxious Employment

   By Iona Italia

   Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

   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...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. Gender and the Fictions of the Public Sphere, 1690-1755

   By Anthony Pollock

   Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

   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...

   Published March 11th 2012 by Routledge
4. Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction

   Novels and the Theater, Haywood to Austen

   By Emily Hodgson Anderson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

   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...

   Published October 10th 2011 by Routledge
5. Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Satire

   “The Scope in Ev’ry Page”

   By Katherine Mannheimer

   Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

   This study interprets eighteenth-century satire’s famous typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment’s "ocularcentric" epistemological paradigms, as well as to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly "visual" — a moment at which widespread...

   Published May 25th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Female Reader in the English Novel

   From Burney to Austen

   By Joe Bray

   Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

   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...

   Published July 13th 2010 by Routledge
7. Thomas Reid and Scepticism

   His Reliabilist Response

   By Philip De Bary, Philip de Bary

   Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

   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...

   Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge
8. Slavery and Augustan Literature

   Swift, Pope and Gay

   By Dr J Richardson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

   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...

   Published October 15th 2003 by Routledge
9. The Epistolary Novel

   Representations of Consciousness

   By Joe Bray

   Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

   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...

   Published May 14th 2003 by Routledge