Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 732
Release: 1913
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789
Author: Paul Baines
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2010-12-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1444390082

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing1660-1789 features coverage of the lives and works of almost 500 notable writers based in the British Isles from the return of the British monarchy in 1660 until the French Revolution of 1789. Broad coverage of writers and texts presents a new picture of 18th-century British authorship Takes advantage of newly expanded eighteenth-century canon to include significantly more women writers and labouring-class writers than have traditionally been studied Draws on the latest scholarship to more accurately reflect the literary achievements of the long eighteenth century