Sustaining Literature: Essays on Literature, History, and Culture, 1500-1800, Commemorating the Life and Work of Simon Varey

by Greg Clingham (Editor)

Sustaining Literature is a collection of scholarly essays by leading scholars on texts, writers, and cultural interests that represent the interests of the late scholar of the Renaissance and the eighteenth century, Simon Varey. Many of the essays examine questions of textual, historical, and cultural evidence in the study of eighteenth-century literature. They address such writers as Dryden, Swift, Defoe, Fielding, and Haywood, and such issues as Restoration satire, anti-Walpole journalism, economics and fiction, historiography, rhetoric, anatomy, food, the Cock Lane Ghost, and the Enlightenment understanding of caves, volcanoes, and spelunking. The volume concludes with a bibliography of the works of Simon Varey.

325 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2007