The Long 18th Century: Companion York Notes

Introduction

Where to Draw the Line?, A Cultural Overview, Texts, Writers and Contexts, Critical Theories, Debates and Resources

A Cultural Overview

The Status Quo, The Restoration: Variations on a Theme, Protestant Nonconformity, After 1660: Suppression and Civil Liberty, After 1666: The Exclusion Crisis, Whigs versus Tories, The Glorious Revolution, History and Historiography in the Long Eighteenth Century, Notes

Poetry and History

Dryden, Johnson and Rochester, Extended Commentary: Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment (1680), Notes

The English Comedy of Manners

Behn, Congreve and Sheridan, Extended Commentary: Behn, The Rover (1677–81), Notes

Political and Social Satire

Pope, Swift and Montagu, Extended Commentary: Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712–14), Notes

Pastoral and Anti-pastoral Poetry

Thomson, Goldsmith, Crabbe and Cowper, Extended Commentary: Crabbe, The Village (1783), Notes

Fact and Fiction

Defoe, Fielding and Sterne, Extended Commentary: Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759–67), Notes

The Novel and the Individual

Bunyan, Haywood, Richardson and Burney, Extended Commentary: Eliza Haywood, Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze (1725), Notes

Man, Nature and Liberty

Social and Political Upheaval, Hobbes and His Influence, Locke and the ‘Power of Individualism’, A Turbulent History, John Locke and America, Mary Astell and the Marriage Contract, Two Influential Societies, Philosophy and Education, The Scottish Enlightenment, Notes

Gender and Sexuality

The Rediscovery of Female Authors, Anne Finch and Female Authorship, Gender, Identity and Power, Sexuality and Literature, Rakes and Libertines, Satire and Moral Conduct, Hardwicke’s Marriage Act, Divorce, Sexual Danger and the ‘Vulnerable’ Female, Notes

Trade, Colonial Expansion and Slavery

Imperial Britain, The Transatlantic Slave Trade, Investment, Speculation and Luxury, Notes

A Culture of Print

Changes in Reading, The English Canon, Ancients versus Moderns, Politeness and Aesthetics, The Reading Experience and the Print Market, Market Forces versus Literary Quality, The Growth of Periodical Writing, The Coffee House and Habermas’s Public Sphere, Polite Literature and the Advent of Literary Criticism, The Romance and the Novel, Notes

Timeline

Further Reading

Anthologies and General Resources, Historical and Social Background, Literary Genres, Thematic Surveys of the Long Eighteenth Century, Philosophical Contexts, Key Debates, Critical Approaches to Literature