Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought

Ilse Vickers shows that the ideas and concepts of Baconian science were a major influence on Daniel Defoe's thinking and writing. She outlines the intellectual principles behind Baconian science, and considers a wide range of Defoe's work from the point of view of his familiarity with the ideals of experimental philosophy.

Dryden defined himself as a writer in relation to other writers, and in doing so was something of a pioneer professional man of letters. This 1993 book looks at Dryden's literary relationships and implications for questions of literary reception, influence and intertextuality, as well as for the reputation and context of Dryden himself.

Dryden defined himself as a writer in relation to other writers, and in doing so was something of a pioneer professional man of letters. This 1993 book looks at Dryden's literary relationships and implications for questions of literary reception, influence and intertextuality, as well as for the reputation and context of Dryden himself.

Dianne Dugaw's book documents the flourishing of the female warrior heroine in lower-class popular songs of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Edmond Malone (1741-1812) laid the foundations for the scholarly study of literature; yet he was also gregarious, attracting many friends and enemies among his contemporaries. This first modern full-length biography illuminates the private world of the scholar and the public world of the late eighteenth-century intellectual elite.

Whilst drawing to some extent on recent theoretical studies, this book restores Clarissa to its largely neglected eighteenth-century context.

This study relates literary and political plots in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through the notion of sexual politics. From the restoration in 1660 to the rise of oligarchy in the 1720s, it traverses a wide range of authors and literary genres, including satire, tragedy, comedy, romance, georgic and the novel.