Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and authors in British and American literature and culture. Designe

One-stop resource offering complete textbook for courses in seventeenth-century literature - progressing from introductory topics through to overviews of curren

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

Eighteenth century Britain thought of itself as a polite, sentimental, enlightened place, but often its literature belied this self-image. This was an age of sa

While the popular talk of English common sense in the eighteenth century might seem a by-product of familiar Enlightenment discourses of rationalism and empiric