A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake

Notes on Contributors.

Part I: Contexts, Issues and Debates:.

1. The Civil War and British Literature: Martin Dzelzainis.

2. Women Writers and Readers: Sue Wiseman.

3. Literature and Party: Brean Hammond.

4. Sentiment and Sensibility: Ann Jessie van Sant.

5. Classical Imitation: David Hopkins.

6. Forgery and Plagiarism: Nick Groom.

7. Literature and Nationhood: Murray Pittock.

8. The Book Trade: Michael Suarez.

Part II: Readings: .

9. Milton, Areopagitica: Martin Dzelzainis.

10. Herrick, Hesperides: Peter Davidson.

11. Marvell, Horatian Ode: Thomas Healy.

12. Hobbes, Leviathan: David Wootton.

13. Katherine Philips, Poems: Jane Spencer.

14. Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs: David Norbrook.

15. Bunyan, Grace Abounding: Anita Pacheco.

16. Milton, Paradise Lost: Nicholas von Maltzahn.

17. Aphra Behn, The Rover: Ros Ballaster.

18. Rochester, Satyr Against Reason à: Paddy Lyons.

19. Aphra Behn, Poems: Sarah Prescott.

20. Dryden, Fables: David Hopkins.

21. Congreve, The Way of the World: Malcolm Kelsall.

22. Swift, Tale of a Tub: Claude Rawson.

23. Pope, Windsor Forest: Christine Gerrard.

24. Gay, Trivia: David Nokes.

25. Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year: David Womersley.

26. Eliza Haywood, Fantomina: Sarah Prescott.

27. Thomson, The Seasons: David Fairer.

28. Pope, Dunciad: Valerie Rumbold.

29. Duck, Poems on Several Subjects: Bridget Keegan.

30. Akenside, Pleasures of the Imagination: David Fairer.

31. Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character: Katherine Turner.

32. Richardson, Clarissa: Tom Keymer.

33. Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes: Tom Kaminski.

34. Fielding, Tom Jones: Richard Braverman.

35. Gray, An Elegy à:Katherine Turner.

36. Johnson, Dictionary: Anne McDermott.

37. Johnson, Rasselas: Anne McDermott.

38. Smart, Jubilate Agno: Alun David.

39. Sterne, Tristram Shandy: David Fairer.

40. Macpherson, Fingal: Dafydd Moore.

41. Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling: David Womersley.

42. Boswell, The Life of Johnson: Bruce Redford.

43. Blake, Innocence and Experience: Jon Mee.

Part III: Periods:.

45. 1681-1688: Abigail Williams.

46. 1701-1713: Stuart Sherman.

47. 1733-1742: Christine Gerrard.

48. 1756-1776: Nick Groom.

Part IV: Genres and Modes:.

49. Pamphlets and News: Joad Raymond.

50. Political Writing: David Wootton.

51. Philosophical Writing: Peter Walmsley.

52. Historical Writing: Karen O'Brien.

53. Religious Writing: Brian Young.

54. The Novel: Simon Varey.

55. Poetry: David Fairer.

56. Drama: Paulina Kewes.

Index.