A concise companion to the Restoration and the eighteenth century

Introduction / Cynthia Wall

1. Travel, trade, and empire : knowing other places, 1660-1800 / Miles Ogborn and Charles W. J. Withers

2. Scientific investigations : experimentalism and paradisal return / Joanna Picciotto

3. Public and private : the myth of the bourgeois public sphere / J. A. Downie

4. streets : literary beggars and the realities of eighteenth-century London / Tim Hitchcock

5. sewers : ordure, effluence, and excess in the eighteenth century / Sophie Gee

6. novel : novels in the world of moving goods / Deidre Shauna Lynch

7. gothic : moving in the world of novels / Mark R. Blackwell

8. Gendering texts : "the abuse of title pages" : men writing as women / Susan Staves

9. Drama : genre, gender, theater / John O'Brien

10. Poetry : the poetry of occasions / J. Paul Hunter

11. Forms of sublimity : the garden, the georgic, and the nation / Rachel Crawford

12. Criticism : literary history and literary historicism / Mark Salber Phillips.