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1. The Figure in the Landscape: Poetry, Painting, and Gardening During the Eighteenth Century
by Professor John Dixon Hunt (Preface by)
Eighteenth-century England saw the rise of a "peculiarly English" art form -- landscape gardening -- and a corresponding change in attitudes toward ... More
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2. Romantic Discourse and Political Modernity: Wordsworth, the Intellectual and Cultural Critique
by Richard Bourke
This provocative book explores the difficulties surrounding the attempt to understand the relationship between literary and political discourse. It ... More
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3. From the Temple to the Castle: An Architectural History of British Literature, 1660-1760
Visiting Britain in the mid-eighteenth century, Andre Rouquet wrote that "in England more than in any other country, every man would fain be his own ... More
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8. The Two Harmonies: Poetry and Prose in the Seventeenth Century
by K G Hamilton, Kenneth Gordon Hamilton, Unknown
Science and poetry, rationalism and rhetoric--these polarities form both division and unity in an age which ushered in the New Science and led to ... More
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9. Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry
by Noel Jackson
An investigation into the competing impulses of science and literary experience in the poetry of Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge and Keats.
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10. Life: Organic Form and Romanticism
by Prof. Denise Gigante
What makes something alive? Or, more to the point, what is life? The question is as old as the ages and has not been (and may never be) resolved. ... More
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11. The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739 1796
by Donna Landry
A 1990 study of the remarkable by neglected laboring-class women poets of the eighteenth century.
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12. Alexander Pope and His Eighteenth-Century Women Readers
by Claudia N Thomas
Throughout the 1980s, scholars debated Alexander Pope's attitude toward women by applying such critical methods as Marxist or deconstructionist ... More
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13. English Women's Poetry, 1649 - 1714
by Carol Barash
This study reconstructs the political origins of English women's poetry between the execution of Charles I and the death of Queen Anne. Drawing on ... More
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14. A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival
by Professor Paula R Feldman (Editor), Daniel Robinson (Editor)
Two expert editors gather 500 sonnets by 81 poets of the Romantic period composed between 1750 and 1850 that were never before published in the 20th ... More
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15. The Patriot Opposition to Walpole: Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725-1742
by Christine Gerrard
What did it mean to be a "Patriot" during the Walpole administration? This is the first full-length study of the so-called Patriot opposition to ... More
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18. Lectures Shewing the Several Sources of That Pleasure Which the Human Mind Receives from Poetry. by the REV. James Hurdis. ...
by James Hurdis
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the ... More
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20. The Hermit in the Garden: From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome
by Gordon Campbell
Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit ... More
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25. Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
by John Mullan (Editor), Christopher Reid (Editor)
This book is a carefully annotated selection of eighteenth-century writings about popular culture. During the eighteenth century, popular culture ... More
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