Contents
General Introduction: Boris Ford 7
Part I: The social setting: A.R.Humphreys 15
Part II: The literary scene: A.R.Humphreys 51
Part III
John Dryden: F.N.Lees 97
Samuel Butler and hudibras: Ian Jack 114
Language 1660-1784: A.S.Collins 125
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: V.De S.Pinto 142
Restoration Comedy: P.A.W.Collins 156
Literary Theory and literary criticism: P.A.W.Collins 173
Literature and Science: C.J.Horne 188
Defoe as Novelist: Ian Watt 203
The periodical essayists: Jane H. Jack 217
An approach to swift: D.W.Jefferson 230
Alexander Pope: Norman Callan 251
poetry in the Eighteenth Century: T.S.Eliot 271
William Hogarth: V.De S.Pinto 278
Samuel Richardson: Frank Bradbrook 293
Fielding and Smollett: A.R.Humphreys 313
Tristram Shandy and its tradition: D.W. Fefferson 333
Augustan reflective poetry: Norman Callan 346
Oliver Goldsmith: Boris Ford 372
William Cowper: D.J.Enright 387
Johnson: A. R. Humphreys 399
Architecture and Landscape: A.R.Humphreys 420
Part IV: Compiled by C.J.Horne
Appendix
For further reading and reference 445
Authors and works 464
Index 498