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The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660–1780

Series The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660–1780, Volume 1

Edited by John Richetti

Publication Date 2005

Hardback ISBN-10
0521781442

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521781442

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521781442

Overview

The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 offers readers discussions of the entire range of literary expression from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century. In essays by thirty distinguished scholars, recent historical perspectives and new critical approaches and methods are brought to bear on the classic authors and texts of the period. Forgotten or neglected authors and themes as well as new and emerging genres within the expanding market place for printed matter during the eighteenth century receive special attention and emphasis. The volume's guiding purpose is to examine the social and historical circumstances within which literary production and imaginative writing take place in the period and to evaluate the enduring verbal complexity and cultural insights they articulate so powerfully.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction
by
John Richetti

Literary Production and Dissemination: Changing Audiences and Emerging Media

Literary Genres: Adaptation and Reformation

Literature and IntellectuaL Life: the Production and Transmission of Culture

Literature and Social and Institutional Change

Literary Genres: Transformation and New Forms of Expressiveness

Conclusion

Chronology

Bibliographies

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