Daniel Defoe

James Kelly

Thomas Keymer

On a desolate tropical island, a shipwrecked British seaman tries to master his hostile environment and remain civilized.

Robinson Crusoe

Jon Mee

This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The first part of the volume focuses on broad themes including taste and aesthetics, national identity and empire, and key cultural trends such as sensibility and the gothic. The second part pays close attention to the work of individual writers including Sterne, Blake, Barbauld and Austen, and to the role of literary schools such as the Lake and Cockney schools. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740–1830

Robert DeMaria

Brian Friel

Philip Davis

Steven Lynn

Philip Smallwood

Paul J. Korshin

Catherine Neal Parke

Robert Folkenflik

Clement Hawes

Howard David Weinbrot

Eithne Henson

Fred Parker

Michael Felix Suarez

John Wilshire

This Companion, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and life of one of the key figures in English literary history.

The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

Peter Sabor

Elmore Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature at St Anne's College Oxford and Lecturer in English Language and Literature Thomas Keymer

Canada Research Chair in Eighteenth-Century Studies and Professor of English Peter Sabor

Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland

'Pamela' in the Marketplace

The Pamela Controversy: Richardson's Apparatus and Fielding's Shamela verse responses

Thomas Keymer's introduction to this casebook examines the historical context and controversial reception of Tristram Shandy, and connects the essays selected for inclusion to the diverse traditions of Sterne Criticism.

A Casebook

Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy

Thomas Keymer

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