Routledge Literature Research

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 September 18th 2008 by Routledge

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

Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Edited by Jolene Zigarovich

Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

This book discusses sex and death in the eighteenth-century, an era that among other forms produced the Gothic novel, commencing the prolific examination of the century’s shifting attitudes toward death and uncovering literary moments in which sexuality and death often conjoined. By bringing...

Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge

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 February 16th 2005 by Routledge

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

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 November 3rd 2008 by Routledge

Mary Wollstonecraft, Pedagogy, and the Practice of Feminism

By Kirstin Hanley

Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

This study examines Mary Wollstonecraft—generally recognized as the founder of the early feminist movement—by shedding light on her contributions to eighteenth-century instructional literature, and feminist pedagogy in particular. While contemporary scholars have extensively theorized...

Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge

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 September 18th 2008 by Routledge

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

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 March 17th 2009 by Routledge