Pope to Burney, 1714-1779: Scriblerians to Bluestockings-Fast Shipping

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This essential guide defines literature of the eighteenth century as a literature written and received as public conversation. Moyra Haslett discusses and challenges conventional ways of reading the period, particularly in relation to notions of the public sphere. In her wide-ranging study, Haslett reads key texts – including The Dunciad, Gulliver’s Travels and Pamela – in their literary and cultural contexts, and examines such genres as the periodical, the familiar letter, the verse epistle and the novel as textual equivalents of coterie culture.