Provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the poetry, drama, fiction, and literary and cultural criticism produced from the Restoration of the English monarchy to the onset of the French Revolution
Comprises over 340 entries arranged in A-Z format across three fully indexed and cross-referenced volumes
Written by an international team of leading and emerging scholars
Features an impressive scope and range of subjects: from courtship and circulating libraries, to the works of Samuel Johnson and Sarah Scott
Includes coverage of both canonical and lesser-known authors, as well as entries addressing gender, sexuality, and other topics that have previously been underrepresented in traditional scholarship
Represents the most comprehensive resource available on this period, and an indispensable guide to the rich diversity of British writing that ushered in the modern literary era

3 Volumes

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Gary Day is Principal Lecturer in English at De Montfort University. His books include Re-Reading Leavis: Culture and Literary Criticism (1996), Class (2001), Literary Criticism: A New History (2008), and Modernist Literature 1890–1950 (2010). Jack Lynch is Professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark. His books includeThe Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson (2003) and Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2008).

• Publisher: Wiley
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• Publication Date: November 12, 2015
• Pages: 1528
• ISBN13: 9781444330205
• Item Weight: 3130 grams
• Original Price: 670.95 USD
• Edition: 1st
• Binding: Hardcover