Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction 1
1 Verse in the Early Eighteenth Century, I: Pope, Gay, Swift 8
2 Verse in the Early Eighteenth Century, II: Prior, Addison, Defoe, Finch, Montagu, Thomson 59
3 English Verse, III: Mid-Century Onwards: Johnson, Gray, the Wartons, Collins, Smart, Watts, Goldsmith, Churchill, Cowper 92
4 Eighteenth-Century Verse, IV: Women, Workers, and Non-Elite Poets 132
5 Prose Fiction in the Early Eighteenth Century: Behn, Haywood, Defoe, Swift 153
6 Prose Fiction in the Mid-Eighteenth Century: Richardson, Fielding, Smollett 180
7 The Novel Past Mid-Century: New Directions and Experiments: Johnson, Sterne, Mackenzie, Walpole, Goldsmith, Burney 223
8 Non-Fictional Prose, I: Addison to Burke 254
9 Non-Fictional Prose, II: Political and Polemical Prose 291
10 Eighteenth-Century Drama: Sentimental Pathos, Melodrama, and Humor 319
Index 357