WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Thanks to Purdue University Press' first digital book, readers can learn what some of the greatest minds in 18th century literature might say today if they traded their quill ...

Not many college students who plan to be English majors can escape a careful study of Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock." "It's a mainstay of teaching 18th-century literature," said Sophie Gee, ...

In recent decades, fictional and quasi-fictional late 18th century works about real or imagined visits to the Indian subcontinent, and even interesting travel narratives written by relatively little ...

Martin Price, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and one of the 20th century’s most distinguished scholars of the Augustan Age and the history of the novel, died on April 10. He was 90 years old.

Eighteenth-century literature was limited to one medium – but modern research of the period no longer has to be. Digital Defoe, an online, interactive, peer-reviewed journal, launched earlier this ...

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British and Irish Studies at UB brings together faculty whose interests and scholarship focus on the literary, cultural, and political histories of modern Britain ...

What can "Sinful Sally" teach us about moral attitudes in the 18th century? That's what Jessica Steinberg has come to the McMaster archives to find out. Steinberg is this year's recipient of the ...

Tamsin works on the intersection of poetic and devotional forms with early modern spatial and textual practices, including those of cosmography, chorography, geography, and navigation. She is ...