[eBook Code] A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature (eBook Code, 1st)

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