This book offers an original study of the debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature. Paul Keen shows how these debates wer

Joseph Johnson (1738-1809) was arguably the foremost bookseller of the late eighteenth century in England, publishing Joseph Priestley, William Cowper, Anna Lae

Confirmation was an important part of the life of the eighteenth-century church which consumed a significant part of the time of bishops, of clergy in their pre

This book examines professional literary criticism by Romantic-era British women to reveal that, while developing a conscious professionalism, women literary cr