Urban Enlightenment and the Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essay: Transatlantic Retrospects - Hardcover

by R. Squibbs (Author)

Urban Enlightenment offers the first literary history of the British periodical essay spanning the entire eighteenth century, and the first to study the genre's development and cultural impact in a transatlantic context.

Author Biography

Richard Squibbs is Assistant Professor of English at DePaul University in Chicago, USA. His articles on eighteenth-century British and early American literature have appeared in ELH, Modern Philology and Huntington Library Quarterly.