Encyclopedia Of British Writers 18th Century

Presents a two-volume A to Z reference on English authors from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, providing information about major figures, key schools and genres, biographical information, author publications and some critical analyses.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information on major and lesser-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, and includes articles on key schools of literature, and genres.

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing1660-1789 features coverage of the lives and works of almost 500 notable writers based in the British Isles from the return of the British monarchy in 1660 until the French Revolution of 1789. Broad coverage of writers and texts presents a new picture of 18th-century British authorship Takes advantage of newly expanded eighteenth-century canon to include significantly more women writers and labouring-class writers than have traditionally been studied Draws on the latest scholarship to more accurately reflect the literary achievements of the long eighteenth century

This concise encyclopedic reference profiles more than 800 British poets

A four-volume set, this encyclopedia is a reference for the study of British literature's history from 16th to the 20th centuries. A-to-Z volumes cover approximately 1,400 major British writers - primarily dramatists, poets, essayists, and fiction writers, with an emphasis on those who are part of the high school curriculum.