Download or read book Eighteenth-Century Writers in their World written by Andrew Varney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-09-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive new study reads both major and lesser-known texts of the period 1700-1750 in their social, cultural, historical and intellectual contexts. Each chapter introduces and discusses a topic, such as travel, science, money and love, and reads a selection of texts in its light. Covering works by Congreve, Defoe, Mrs Manley, Addison, women poets, Swift, Pope, Fielding and Richardson, this is an invaluable and illuminating guide for students of the period.