The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 offers readers discussions of the entire range of literary expression from the Restoration to the end of

In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and

A set of reference works on the history of English literature throughout the major periods of its development.

The history of the most hotly debated areas of literary theory, including structuralism and deconstruction.