York Notes Companions: The Long 18th Century: n/a: Literature from 1660-1790 - Softcover

Pritchard, Penny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408204738 ISBN 13: 9781408204733

Publisher: Longman, 2010

Synopsis

From Restoration poets and playwrights Dryden, Rochester and Behn, through to the great eighteenth-century novelists and satirists Richardson, Burney and Defoe, this volume discusses the key literary developments of the age. Covering important topics of debate, such as trade, expansion and slavery, nature, liberty, and print culture, this York Notes Companion also incorporates relevant critical theory throughout for a complete and wide-ranging introduction.

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About the Author

Dr Penny Pritchard holds a BA from the University of Oxford and a Phd from the University of East Anglia. She has a wide range of post-16 teaching experience and is a lecturer in English Literature and Language at the University of Hertfordshire. Here she is the Module leader for the Eighteenth Century, and teaches on Restoration, Eighteenth Century and Renaissance modules. She has contributed an essay on Defoe’s Nonconformist background and rhetoric to the forthcoming Cambridge Scholars volume Positioning Daniel Defoe’s Non-fiction: Form, Genre and Function, and also a chapter on the funeral sermon to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the English Sermon.Penny has published extensive entries on Defoe’s biography and literary works for various online directories, including the Literary Encyclopedia and the Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.  She is a member of BSECS and has chaired panels at their annual conference, as well as giving several seminar and conference papers here and at institutions round the country. She is also a member of the Defoe Society.

From the Back Cover

The Long Eighteenth Century, Literature 1660­–1790

The York Notes Companion to the Long Eighteenth Century traces the development of literature in English from the poets and playwrights of the Restoration through to the great eighteenth-century novelists and satirists.  Examining the cultural and intellectual contexts that shaped the work of writers from Dryden to Defoe, such as trade, colonial expansion, slavery, and print culture, the Companion offers close readings of texts, and guides students through the key literary theories and debates that inform the study of the literature of this period.  Connecting texts with their historical and scholarly contexts, this is essential reading for any student of eighteenth century literature. 

 

Each York Notes Companion provides:

• Analysis  of key texts and debates  
• Extended  commentaries for further in-depth analysis of individual texts  
• Exploration  of historical, social and cultural contexts
• Annotations clarifying literary terms and events in history
• Modern  theoretical perspectives in practice  
• Timelines  and annotated further reading

Penny Pritchard is a Lecturer in English Literature and Language at the University of Hertfordshire.

Edition details

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408204738
• ISBN 13: 9781408204733
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384