Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and authors in British and American literature and culture. Designe

The handbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the British novel in the long eighteenth century, when this genre emerged to develop into the period’s mos

The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth Century Novel is the first published book to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. It is an indisp

This comprehensive 1997 account of eighteenth-century literary criticism is now available in paperback.

The aim of this book, originally published in 1978, is to make the reading of literary classics such as Gulliver’s Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Tom Jones, The Be