The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789 (eBook)

Paul Baines is Professor, School of English, University of Liverpool. He is the author of The House of Forgery in 18th-Century Britain (1999), The Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope (2000), The Long Eighteenth Century (2004), and Edmund Curll: Bookseller (with Pat Rogers 2006), and editor of Five Romantic Plays 1768-1821 (2000). Julian Ferraro is Lecturer, School of English, University of Liverpool. He is the author of several articles on literature of the period and is one of the editors of The Poems of Alexander Pope in the Longman Annotated English Poets (2010). Pat Rogers holds the DeBartolo Chair in the Liberal Arts, University of South Florida. He is one of the foremost authorities on eighteenth-century literature and has written or edited over thirty books on the period. He has worked extensively on Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, and Daniel Defoe, among many others. His recent publications include The Alexander Pope Encyclopedia (2004), Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts (2005), and the edited collection, The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope (2008).

Acknowledgments.

Timeline.

Introduction and Further Reading.

Entries A-Z.

Index.

"As with any good collection of biographical essays, one finds
many humanizing snippets that bring the century closer to us than
any accumulation of facts and dates can do ... The volume reminds
us why we fell in love with this period." (The Scriblerian
and The Kit-Cats, 1 October 2013)

"This modest volume offers an excellent reference resource for
students and scholars, but, as the authors explain, their aim is
not only provide 'reliable and accessible information'
but also 'to offer a kind of browsing sense of
interconnection between writers, and indeed a sample of the
collective variety of the period' (p. xxii)." (Years Work
in English Studies, 1 August 2013)

"Excellent ... The range of authors covered in the
encyclopaedia, while not exhaustive, should definitely be
sufficient for most undergraduate or postgraduate students."
(Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 17 July 2013)

"The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers
and Writing 1660-1789should be near at hand for every student
and teacher of eighteenth-century literature. The choice of entries
among writers, publishers, and key literary titles expands one's
sense of the field, especially in the selection of women and
labouring-class writers. The encyclopedia is densely packed with
accurate, reliable information on the full range of literary life
in eighteenth-century Britain, and the variable lengths of the
entries are nicely adjusted to facilitate reference while providing
narrative interest. Like the best reference works of the eighteenth
century, theWiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia is both profitable
to consult and a pleasure to peruse."

--Robert DeMaria, Jr, Vassar College