By the time Ian Watt published The Rise of the Novel. in 1957, it was clear that many women novelists before Jane Austen had been overlooked in critical studies of literature and that some of them had
The ten plays in this new collection show both the continuity and the changes in comedy over the course of the Restoration and eighteenth century. Each play includes its original prologue and epilogue
The book reviews the varied cultural accomplishments during the reign of Queen Anne (1702–1714), including scholarly essays on Anne, her patronage of the arts, coin collecting, poetry (especially past
