Book Series in Literature
Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
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The Female Reader in the English Novel
From Burney to Austen
This book examines how reading is represented within the novels of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Contemporary accounts portrayed the female reader in…
read moreApril 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-88401-3 (Routledge)
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Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction
Novels and the Theater, Haywood to Austen
This study looks at developments in eighteenth-century drama that influenced the rise of the novel; it begins by asking why women writers of this period…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99905-2 (Routledge)
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Originality and Intellectual Property in the French and English Enlightenment
Are legal concepts of intellectual property and copyright related to artistic notions of invention and originality? Do literary and legal scholars have anything to learn…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96288-9 (Routledge)
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Gender and the Fictions of the Public Sphere, 1690-1755
Challenging the longstanding interpretation of the early English public sphere as polite, inclusive, and egalitarian this book re-interprets key texts by representative male authors from…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99004-2 (Routledge)
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Thomas Reid and Scepticism
His Reliabilist Response
This book bears witness to the current reawakening of interest in Reid's philosophy. It first examines Reid's negative attack on the Way of Ideas, and… read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40833-2 (Routledge)
The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century
Anxious Employment
Recent years have witnessed a heightened interest in eighteenth-century literary journalism and popular culture. This book provides an account of the early periodical as a… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34392-3 (Routledge)
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Slavery and Augustan Literature
Swift, Pope and Gay
Slavery and Augustan Literature investigates slavery in the work of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay. These three writers were connected with a Tory… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31286-8 (Routledge)
The Epistolary Novel
Representations of Consciousness
The epistolary novel is a form which has been neglected in most accounts of the development of the novel. This book argues that the way… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30610-2 (Routledge)