This fully annotated edition sheds much light on eighteenth-century British literary and publishing history.

The new biography of the publisher and bookseller who premiered the work of Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson deftly integrates Dodsley's life story with the li

The contributions in this book discuss letter-writing from 1400 to 1800, and the material studied ranges from the late medieval Paston Letters and the correspon

"Exploring the widespread breach of the wall that separated "high" and "low" Steve Newman challenges our current understanding of lyric poetry. Newman shows how