Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen offers an extensive introduction to cinematic representations of the eighteenth century, mostly derived from classic fictio

This collection explores how film and television depict the complex and diverse milieu of the eighteenth century as a literary, historical, and cultural space.

Although there were no self-avowed British atheists before the 1780s, authors including Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Sarah Fielding, Phebe Gibbes, and Willia

In this study intended for general readers, eminent critic Patricia Meyer Spacks provides a fresh, engaging account of the early history of the English novel. N

This study of sensibility in the eighteenth-century English novel discusses literary representations of suffering and responses to it in the social and scientif