The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789

by Baines, Paul; Ferraro, Julian; Rogers, Pat

• ISBN13: 9781405156691
• ISBN10: 1405156694
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-31
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This ground-breaking Encyclopedia provides lively and authoritative accounts of the writers and works of the period 1600-1789. Covers all notable British and Irish writers, as well as many of the recently rediscovered women authors of the period and the prominent genres, themes and contexts Wide-ranging coverage includes entries as diverse as political crises, wars, architecture, religious movements, music, authorship, the institutions of publishing, censorship, and libraries An indispensable source of reference for students and scholars of eighteenth-century literature

Author Biography

Paul Baines is Professor, School of English, University of Liverpool. He is the author of The House of Forgery in 18^th-Century Britain (1999), The Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope (2000), The Long Eighteenth Century (2004), and Edmund Curll: Bookseller (with Pat Rogers 2006), and editor of Five Romantic Plays 1768-1821 (2000).

Julian Ferraro is Lecturer, School of English, University of Liverpool. He is the author of several articles on literature of the period and is one of the editors of The Poems of Alexander Pope in the Longman Annotated English Poets (2010).

Pat Rogers holds the DeBartolo Chair in the Liberal Arts, University of South Florida. He is one of the foremost authorities on eighteenth-century literature and has written or edited over thirty books on the period. He has worked extensively on Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, and Daniel Defoe, among many others. His recent publications include The Alexander Pope Encyclopedia (2004), Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts (2005), and the edited collection, The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope (2008).  

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

Timeline.

Introduction and Further Reading.

Entries A–Z.

Index.