Eighteenth-Century Writers in their World

This comprehensive new study reads both major and lesser-known texts of the period 1700-1750 in their social cultural historical and intellectual contexts. Each chapter introduces and discusses a topic such as travel science money and love and reads a selection of texts in its light. Covering works by Congreve Defoe Mrs Manley Addison women poets Swift Pope Fielding and Richardson this is an invaluable and illuminating guide for students of the period.