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This book examines eighteenth-century novels, with a focus on the skills that readers were expected to master in order to read these works. It analyses how such

How did eighteenth-century readers find and make time to read? Books have always posed a problem of time for readers. Becoming widely available in the eighteent

The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robert

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing1660-1789 features coverage of the lives and works of almost 500 notable writers based

This study looks at developments in eighteenth-century drama that influenced the rise of the novel; it begins by asking why women writers of this period experim