A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction: Cynthia Wall.

1. Trade, travel and empire: “Knowing other places 1660-1800”: Miles Ogborn (University of London) and Charles W. J. Withers (University of Edinburgh).

2. Scientific investigations: “Paradise regained: the rhetoric of English experimentalism”: Joanna Picciotto (Princeton University).

3. Public and private: “The myth of the bourgeois public sphere”: J. A. Downie (University of London).

4. The Streets: “Literary beggars and the reality of street life in eighteenth-century London”: Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire).

5. The Sewers: Ordure, Effluence and Excess in the Eighteenth Century: Sophie Gee (Princeton University).

6. The Novel: “Novels in the world of moving goods”: Deidre Shauna Lynch (Indiana University).

7. The Gothic: “Moving in the world of novels”: Mark Blackwell (University of Hartford).

8. Gendering Texts: “‘The Abuse of Title Pages’: men writing as women”: Susan Staves (Brandeis University).

9. Drama: “Dramatic changes”: John O’Brien (University of Virginia).

10. Poetry: “Poetry of occasions”: J. Paul Hunter (University of Virginia).

11. Forms of Sublimity: The Garden, the Georgic, the Nation: Rachel Crawford (University of San Francisco).

12. Criticism: “Literary history and literary historicism: Mark Salber Phillips (Carleton University).

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