The New Pelican guide to English literature
Subtitle: 4. From Dryden to Johnson
By: edited by Boris Ford.
Contributors: Ford, Boris.; Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
Series: Penguin Books
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Harmondsworth
Language: eng
Number of pages: 527
ISBN-13: 9780140222678
Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Bibliography: p455-507. - Includes index.

Previous ed.: 1957.
Table of contents: title: General Introduction / Boris Ford; title: The Social Setting ; The Literary Scene / Arthur Humphreys; title: John Dryden / Francis Noel Lees; title: Retoration Comedy / P.A.W Collins; title: Literature and Science / C.J. Horne; title: Defoe as Novelist / Ian Watt; title: Language 1660-1784  / A.S. Collins; title: The Periodical Essayists / Jane H. Jack; title: Swift and The Tradition of wit / D.W. Jefferson [19 more not listed].