Title: Eighteenth century encounters :
Authors: Rogers, Pat.
Date: 1985
Publisher: Harvester Press ;
Physical description: xviii, 173 pages ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: P
Contents: Gulliver's glasses -- Gulliver and the engineers -- 'Dog-logick' in Swift's Upon the horrid plot -- Pope's Rambles -- Wit, love and sin : Pope's Court Ballard rconsidered -- Black and poetry and Pope -- Satire in disguise : John Gay's Welcome to Mr. Pope -- Merchants and minsters : Peachum, Jonathan Wild and The complete English tradesman -- Guidebook as epic : reportage and art in Defoe's Tour -- 'This calamitous year' : A Journal of the plague year and the South Sea bubble.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Authors, English--18th century--Political and social views.; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731--Criticism and interpretation.; English literature--18th century--History and criticism.; Great Britain--History--George I, 1714-1727.; History in literature.; Literature and history--Great Britain--History--18th century.; Literature and society--Great Britain--History--18th century.; Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744; Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744--Criticism and interpretation.; Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745; Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745--Criticism and interpretation.; Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745.