18th
Century Primary Works List
BIOGRAPHY
AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Boswell,
James. London Journal; Life
of Johnson
Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the
Life of OE
Johnson,
Samuel. The Life of Savage
Montagu,
Mary Wortley. Letters
Pepys,
Samuel. Diary (selections)
Piozzi,
Hester Lynch. Anecdotes
CRITICISM
AND AESTHETICS
Burke,
Edmund. Sublime and Beautiful
Dryden,
John. An Essay of Dramatick Poesy
Johnson,
Samuel. Preface to Shakespeare
Pope,
Alexander. Essay on Criticism;
Epistle to Burlington
Reynolds,
Joshua. Discourses
(selections)
Warton, Joseph. Essay on Pope
Warton, Thomas. Essay on The Fairy Queen
Young,
Edward. Conjectures on Original
Composition
DRAMA
Behn, Aphra. The Rover
Buckingham,
Duke of. The Rehearsal
Congreve,
William. The Way of the World
Dryden,
John. All for Love
Fielding,
Henry. Tragedy of Tragedies
Gay,
John. The Beggar�s Opera
Goldsmith,
Oliver. She Stoops to Conquer
Lillo,
George. The London Merchant
Sheridan,
Richard Brinsley. School for Scandal
Steele,
Richard. The Conscious Lovers
Wycherley,
William. The Country Wife
NOVELS
Austen,
Jane. Pride and Prejudice, Northanger
Abbey, Persuasion
Behn, Aphra. Oroonoko
Bunyan,
John. Pilgrim�s Progress
Burney,
Frances. Evelina;
Cecilia
Defoe,
Daniel. Robinson Crusoe; Moll
Flanders
Fielding,
Henry. Joseph Andrews; Tom
Jones
Goldsmith,
Oliver. Vicar of Wakefield
Haywood,
Eliza. Love in Excess; Fantomina
Johnson,
Samuel. Rasselas
Lewis,
Matthew Gregory. The Monk
Mackenzie,
Henry. The Man of Feeling
Radcliffe,
Ann. The Mysteries of Udolpho
Richardson,
Samuel. Pamela; Clarissa
(unabridged)
Scott,
Sarah. Millenium
Hall
Smollett,
Tobias. Humphry
Clinker
Sterne,
Laurence. Tristram
Shandy; A Sentimental Journey
Swift,
Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels
Walpole,
Horace. The Castle of Otranto
PERIODICAL
ESSAY
Addison,
Joseph, and Richard Steele. Tatler and Spectator (selections: esp. on
Milton and the
Pleasures
of the Imagination)
Johnson,
Samuel. Idler and Rambler
(selections)
Smart, Christopher. The
Midwife
POETRY
Burns,
Robert. Jolly Beggars; Cotter;
Mouse; Louse; Daisy
Butler,
Samuel. Hudibras
Collins,
William. Odes
Cowper,
William. The Task
(selections); Castaway; Gilpin
Dryden,
John. MacFlecknoe;
Absalom and Achitophel; Religio
Laici; Song for St. Cecilia's
Day; Alexander's
Feast
Goldsmith,
Oliver. The Deserted Village
Gray,
Thomas. Eton; Elegy;
Bard; Progress of Poesy; Favorite Cat; Odin
Johnson,
Samuel. London; Vanity
of Human Wishes; Levet
Pope,
Alexander. Essay on Criticism;
Essay on Man; Rape of the Lock; Epistle to Arbuthnot;
Dunciad
Smart, Christopher. Jubilate
Agno (selections)
Swift,
Jonathan. City Shower; Verses
on the Death of Doctor Swift; Lady's Dressing Room
Thomson,
James. The Seasons
(selections)
Young,
Young. Night Thoughts
(selections)
POLITICAL
AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Barrow,
Isaac. The Duty and Reward of
Bounty to the Poor
Burke,
Edmund. Reflections on the
Revolution in France
Defoe,
Daniel. The Shortest Way with
the Dissenters; Journal of the Plague Year
Gibbon,
Edward. Decline and Fall
Hobbes,
Thomas. Leviathan
Hume,
David. Dialogues Concerning
Natural Religion; selected essays
Johnson,
Samuel. Preface to the Dictionary
Locke,
John. Essay Concerning Human
Understanding
Mandeville,
Bernard. Fable of the Bees
Shaftesbury, third earl of (Anthony Ashley Cooper). Characteristics (selections)
Smith,
Adam. Theory of Moral
Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations
Swift,
Jonathan. A Modest Proposal;
Battle of the Books; Tale of a Tub
Tillotson, John. Sermons (selections)
Wollstonecraft,
Mary. A Vindication of the
Rights of Woman
18th
Century Secondary List
(Auto/biography)
Spacks, Patricia Meyer. Imagining a Self: Autobiography and
Novel in Eighteenth-Century
England. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1976.
(Criticism
and Aesthetics)
De Bolla, Peter. The
Discourse of the Sublime: Readings in History, Aesthetics, and the Subject.
New
York: Blackwell, 1989.
Engell, James. The Creative Imagination,
Enlightenment to Romanticism.
Cambridge: Harvard
UP,
1981.
(Drama)
Brown,
Laura. English
Dramatic Form, 1660-1760.
New Haven: Yale UP. 1981.
Hume,
Robert. The Rakish Stage:
Studies in English Drama, 1660-1800.
Carbondale: SIUP,
1983.
Liesenfeld, Vincent J. The Licensing Act
of 1737. Madison: U.
Wisconsin Press, 1984.
(Novel)
Armstrong,
Nancy. Desire and Domestic
Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. Oxford:
OUP, 1987.
Hunter, J. Paul. Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century
English Fiction.
New
York: W. W. Norton, 1990.
McKeon,
Michael. The Origins of the
English Novel, 1600-1740. Baltimore, MD: Johns
Hopkins UP, 1987.
Watt,
Ian. The Rise of the Novel:
Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. Berkeley: U. of
California Press, 1957.
(Periodicals)
Bond,
Richmond. The Tatler: The Making of a Literary
Journal. Cambridge, MA: Harvard,
1971.
Graham,
Walter. English
Literary Periodicals. New
York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1930.
Habermas, Jurgen. The Structural
Transformation of the Public Sphere. Cambridge, MA: MIT,
1991.
(Poetry)
Backscheider, Paula. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their
Poetry: Inventing
Agency, Inventing Genre.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005.
Doody,
Margaret Anne. The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered.
Cambridge,
1985.
Dowling,
William C. The Epistolary Moment: The Poetics of the
Eighteenth-Century
Verse
Epistle. Princeton, 1991.
(Political and Intellectual
History)
Porter, Roy. The Creation of the Modern World:
The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment.
New York: W. W. Norton,
2000.
Rivers, Isabel. Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A
Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics
in England, 1660-1780. Cambridge: CUP, 1991.
Pocock, J. G. A. The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine
Political Thought and the Atlantic
Republican Tradition. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1975.
(Popular Forms)
Stallybrass, Peter and White, Allon. The
Politics and Poetics of Transgression. London: Methuen, 1986.
Pedersen, Susan. "Hannah More Meets Simple Simon:
Tracts, Chapbooks, and Popular Culture
in Late Eighteenth-Century
England." Journal
of British Studies 25 (1986), 84-113.
Todd, Dennis. Imagining Monsters: Miscreations of the Self in Eighteenth-Century England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1995.
(Satire and Sentimentalism)
Brissenden, R. F. Virtue in Distress: Studies
in the Novel of Sentiment from Richardson to Sade,
London:
Macmillan, 1974.
Carretta, Vincent. The Snarling Muse: Verbal
and Visual Political Satire from Pope to Churchill.
1983.
Crane,
R. S.
"Suggestions toward a Genealogy of the 'Man of Feeling'," ELH,
1 (1934), 205-30.
(Works
with a Broader Scope)
Colley,
Linda. Britons: Forging the
Nation, 1707-1837. New Haven:
Yale UP, 1992.
Foucault,
Michel. Discipline and Punish:
The Birth of the Prison. New
York: Vintage Books,
1977.
Hirschman,
Albert O. The Passions and the
Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before
Its Triumph. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1977.
Williams,
Raymond. The Country and the
City. New York: OUP,
1973.
Selected
18th-Century Faculty Publications
Barchas, Janine. Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century
Novel. Cambridge:
CUP, 2003.
Barnouw, Jeffrey. Odysseus, Hero of Practical Intelligence: Deliberation
and Signs in Homer's
Odyssey. Lanham, MD: University Press of
America, 2004.
----------. Propositional
Perception: Phantasia, Predication, and Sign in Plato,
Aristotle and the
Stoics. Lanham, MD: University Press of
America, 2002.
Bertelsen, Lance. The Nonsense Club: Literature and Popular Culture,
1749-1764. Oxford:
Clarendon, 1986.
----------. Henry
Fielding at Work: Magistrate, Businessman, Writer. New York: Palgrave,
2000.
Garrison, James Dale.
Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1975.
----------. Pietas from Vergil to Dryden. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State
University
Press, 1992.
Hedrick,
Elizabeth. �Romancing the Salve: Sir Kenelm Digby and the Powder of Sympathy.�
British Journal for the History of Science 41(2008):
161-185.
Heinzelman, Susan Sage. "Guilty in Law, Implausible in
Fiction: The Narrative of Mary
Blandy, Parricide,
1752." Texas Journal of Women and the Law 1:1 (Spring
1992): 337-368. (Reprinted in Representing Women, Duke,
1994)
Moore, Lisa L. Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a
Sapphic History of the British Novel.
Durham,
NC: Duke UP,
1997.
Rumrich, John Peter. Matter of Glory: A New Preface to Paradise Lost.
Pittsburgh, PA.
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987.
----------. Milton
Unbound: Controversy and Reinterpretation. Cambridge: CUP, 1996.
Woodard, Helena. African-British
Writings in the Eighteenth Century: The Politics of Race ad
Reason. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, Press,
1999.