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This definitive Companion provides a critical overview of literary culture in the period from John Milton to William Blake. Its broad chronological range responds to recent reshapings of the canon and identifies new directions of study.

The Companion is composed of over fifty contributions from leading scholars in the field, its essays offer students a comprehensive and accessible survey of the field from a wide range of perspectives. It also, however, gives researchers and faculty the opportunity to update their acquaintance with new critical and scholarly work.

The volume meets the needs of an intellectual world increasingly given over to inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary study by covering philosophical, political, cultural and historical writing, as well as literary writing. Unlike other similar volumes, the main body of the Companion consists of readings of individual texts, both those commonly and less commonly studied.

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The Companion is composed of over fifty contributions from leading scholars in the field, its essays offer students a comprehensive and accessible survey of the field from a wide range of perspectives. It also, however, gives researchers and faculty the opportunity to update their acquaintance with new critical and scholarly work.

The volume meets the needs of an intellectual world increasingly given over to inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary study by covering philosophical, political, cultural and historical writing, as well as literary writing. Unlike other similar volumes, the main body of the Companion consists of readings of individual texts, both those commonly and less commonly studied.

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CONTENTS
Introduction = xi
Notes on Contributors = xvi
PART ONE : Contexts, Issues and Debates
 1 Literature, War and Politics, 1642-1668 / Martin Dzelzainis = 3
 2 Women Writers and Women Readers / Sue Wiseman = 20
 3 Literature and Party, 1675-1760 / Brean Hammond = 38
 4 Furnishing the Mind, Creating Social Bonds / Ann Jessie Van Sant = 57
 5 Classical Translation and Imitation / David Hopkins = 76
 6 Forgery and Plagiarism / Nick Groom = 94
 7 Literature and Nationhood / Murray Pittock = 114
 8 The Business of Literature : The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake / Michael F. Suarez = 131
PART TWO : Readings
 9 John Milton, Areopagitica / Martin Dzelzainis = 151
 10 Robert Herrick, Hesperides / Peter Davidson = 159
 11 Andrew Marvell, 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland' / Thomas Healy = 165
 12 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan / David Wootton = 171
 13 Katherine Philips, Poems / Jane Spencer = 175
 14 Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs / David Norbrook = 182
 15 John Bunyan, Grace Abounding / Anita Pacheco = 189
 16 John Milton, Paradise Lost / Nicholas von Maltzahn = 196
 17 Aphra Behn, The Rover / Ros Ballaster = 206
 18 John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Satire against Mankind / Paddy Lyons = 214
 19 Aphra Behn, Poems / Sarah Prescott = 224
 20 John Dryden, Fables / David Hopkins = 232
 21 William Congreve, The Way of the World / Malcolm Kelsall = 238
 22 Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub / Claude Rawson = 244
 23 Alexander Pope, Windsor-Forest / Christine Gerrard = 253
 24 John Gay, Trivia / David Nokes = 259
 25 Daniel Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year / David Womersley = 268
 26 Eliza Haywood, Fantomina / Sarah Prescott = 277
 27 James Thomson, The Seasons / David Fairer = 284
 28 Alexander Pope, The Dunciads / Valerie Rumbold = 291
 29 Stephen Duck, Poems on Several Occasions / Bridget Keegan = 301
 30 Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination / David Fairer = 308
 31 William Collins, 'Ode on the Poetical Character' / Katherine Turner = 315
 32 Samuel Richardson, Clarissa / Tow Keymer = 322
 33 Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes / Thomas Kaminski = 331
 34 Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones / Richard Braverman = 339
 35 Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard / Katherine Turner = 345
 36 Samuel Johnson, Dictionary / Anne McDermott = 353
 37 Samuel Johnson, Rasselas / Anne McDermott = 360
 38 Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno / Alun David = 366
 39 Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy / David Fairer = 371
 40 James Macpherson, Fingal and Other Poems / Dafydd Moore = 380
 41 Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling / David Womersley = 387
 42 James Boswell, The Life of Johnson / Bruce Redford = 393
 43 William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience / Jon Mee = 402
PART THREE : Periods
 44 Literature, 1681-1688 / Abigail Williams = 411
 45 Literature, 1701-1713 / Stuart Sherman = 431
 46 Literature, 1733-1742 / Christine Gerrard = 450
 47 Literature, 1757-1776 / Nick Groom = 464
PART FOUR : Genres and Modes
 48 Pamphlets and News / Joad Raymond = 483
 49 Political Writing / David Wootton = 497
 50 Philosophical Writing / Peter Walmsley = 508
 51 Historical Writing / Karen O'Brien = 522
 52 Religious Writing / Brian Young = 536
 53 The Novel / Simon Varey = 548
 54 Poetry / David Fairer = 560
 55 Shakespeare and New Drama / Paulina Kewes = 575
Index = 589