The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740

by Steven N. Zwicker (Editor)

This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile moments, when literature was enmeshed with the extremes of social, political and sexual experience. Newly-commissioned essays make use of current critical perspectives in order to offer new insight into the literature of Restoration and early eighteenth-century England in all its variety, from vitriolic satire to heroic verse. The volume's chronologies and select bibliographies will guide the reader through texts and events, while the fourteen essays commissioned for this Companion will allow us to read the period anew.

Genres: Literary Criticism, Books About Books, Literature, Nonfiction

360 pages, Paperback

First published June 13, 1998

Reviews

[Sue Davis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some useful chapters with historical context.