Literature and Society in Eighteenth-Century England: Ideology, ...

 This broad-ranging study by one of the leading authorities on the "long eighteenth-century" running from the late Stuarts to the age of Jane Austen and the Romantics uses a huge variety of literary texts to explain the dominant beliefs and attitudes of the time. It includes newspapers, pamphlets, diaries, prints, poetry, plays and the novel. and advances current debates concerning continuity and change in the eighteenth century. This lively and engaging book will be of equal interest to political and literary historians as to those primarily concerned with social history.