Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Texts pertaining to the Study of English in Eighteenth-Century Great Britain


Aarsleff, Hans. The Study of Language in England1780-1860. Princeton, 1967.

_____. The Spectator. 5 vols. Ed. Donald F. Bond. Oxford: Clarendon, 1965.

Addison and Steele. The Tatler. 4 vols. Ed. Donald Bond. Oxford: Clarendon, 1987.

Agress, Lynne. The Feminine Irony. Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 1978.

Alexander, William. The History of Women, From Earliest Antiquity to the Present Time. Dublin, 1779.

Allen, Charles. The Polite Lady: or, a Course of Female Education, in a Series of Letters. London: J. Newbery, 1760.

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 1983.

Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1958.

Aristotle. The Rhetoric and the Poetics. Trans., W. Rhys Roberts and Ingram Bywater. NY: Modern Library, 1954.

Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. NY: Oxford, 1987.

Ash, John. Grammatical Institutes; or, an Easy Introduction to Dr. Lowth's English Grammar: Designed for the Use of Schools, and to lead Young Gentlemen and Ladies into the Knowledge of the First Principles of the English Language. London, 1760.

Austen, Jane. Persuasion. 1818. NY: Signet Classic, 1964.

_____. Sense and Sensibility. 1813. New York: Signet, 1961.

Bahktin, Mikhail. The Dialogical Imagination: Four Essays. Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin, TX: U of Texas P, 1981.

Barbauld, Anna Laetitia. Letters c. 1774. in The Female Spectator: English Women Writers before 1800. Eds. Mary R. Mahl and Helene Koom. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1977.

Barker-Benfield, G.J. The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Great Britain. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1992.

Baron, Dennis. Grammar and Gender. New Haven: Yale UP, 1986.

Barrell, John. "The Dangerous Goddess: Masculinity, Prestige and the Aesthetic in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain" in The Birth of Pandora and the Division of Knowledge. London: Macmillan, 1992: 63-87.

_____. English Literature in History, 1730-1780: An Equal, Wide Survey. London: Hutchinson, 1983.

Batsleer, Janet, and Tony Davies, Rebecca O'Rourke, and Chris Weedon. Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class. NY: Methuen, 1985.

Bennett, John. Strictures on Female Education; Chiefly as it Relates to the Culture of the Heart. 1795. Rpt. NY: Source Book, 1971.

Bennett, Shelley M. "'Changing Images of Women in Late Eighteenth-Century England: the 'Lady's Magazine', 1770-1810." Arts Magazine. May 1981: 138-41.

Bevilacqua, Vincent. "Adam Smith and Some Philosophical Origins of Eighteenth-Century Rhetorical Theory." Modern Language Review 63 (1968): 559-568.

Bilger, Audrey. "Mocking the 'Lords of Creation': Comic Male Characters in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen." Women's Writing: The Elizabethan to Victorian Period 1.1 (1994): 77-98.

Blair, Hugh. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. 1783. Rpt. Carbondale and Edwardsville: S. Illinois UP, 1965.

Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. NY: Modern Library, 1965.

Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste. Trans., Richard Nice. Cambridge: Harvard, 1984.

Bourdieu, Pierre and Jean-Claude Passeron. Reproduction in Education, Society, and Culture. Trans. Tom Bottomore. London: Sage, 1977, 1990.

Brody, Miriam. Manly Writing: Gender, Rhetoric, and the Rise of Composition. Carbondale and Edwardsville: S. Illinois UP, 1993.

Buchanan, James. The British Grammar. London: A. Millar, 1762.

Burney, Frances. Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World. 1778. NY: Norton, 1965.

Burton, J. Lectures on Female Education and Manners. 1793. Rpt. NY: Source Book Press, 1970.

Burtt, Shelley. Virtue Transformed: Political Argument in England, 1688-1740. NY: Cambridge, 1992.

Cahn, Susan. Industry of Devotion: The Transformation of Women's Work in England, 1500-1660. NY: Columbia UP, 1987.

Cameron, Deborah. Feminism and Linguistic Theory. Basington: Macmillan, 1992.

_____. Verbal Hygiene. London: Routledge, 1995.

Campbell, George. The Philosophy of Rhetoric. 1776. Rpt. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1992.

Carter, John. A Practical English Grammar. London, 1773.

Cartwright, Mrs. H. Letters on Female Education, Addressed to a Married Lady. London: Edward & Chas Dilly, 1777.

Chapone, Hester. Letters on the Improvement of the Mind.1777. London, 1822.

Chesterfield, Lord. Elements of a Polite Education, Carefully selected from the Letters of the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield. By George Gregory. Boston, 1801.

Clark, Alice. Working Life of Womenin the Seventeenth Century. London: Routledge, 1919.

Clayden, P.W. The Early Life of Samuel Rogers. London, 1887.

Cmiel, Kenneth. Democratic Eloquence: The Fight over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century America. NY: William Morrow & Co., 1990.

Cohen, Murray. Sensible Words: Linguistic Practice in England, 1640-1785. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins, 1977.

Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. New Haven: Yale, 1992.

Cope, Kevin. "A Rhapsody on Disagreement: The Shaftesburian Essay and the Literary Incorporation of Strife." Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism 12.3 (1989): 207-223.

Corbett, Edward P.J., James L. Golden, and Goodwin F. Berquist, eds. Essays on the Rhetoric of the Western World. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1990.

Corfield, P.J. The Impact of English Towns 1700-1800. Oxford, 1982.

Court, Franklin E. Institutionalizing English Literature: The Culture and Politics of Literary Study, 1750-1900. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1992.

Crawford, Robert. Devolving English Literature. NY: Oxford UP, 1992.

Crowley, Tony. Standard English and the Politics of Language. Urbana and Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1989.

Daiches, David, Peter Jones, and Jean Jones, eds. A Hotbed of Genius: the Scottish Enlightenment, 1730-90. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1986.

Dawson, Deidre. "Is Sympathy so Surprising? Adam Smith and French Fictions of Sympathy." Eighteenth-Century Life 15 (1991): 147-62.

DeMaria, Robert Jr. Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning. Chapel Hill: U North Carolina P, 1986.

DuBois, Dorothea. The Lady's Polite Secretary, or New Female Letter Writer. London: J. Coote, 1771.

Dwyer, John and Richard Sher, eds. Sociability and Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1993.

Eagleton, Terry. The Function of Criticism: From The Spectator to Post-Structuralism. NY: Verso, 1984.

Edgeworth, Maria. Belinda. Oxford UP, 1994.

_____. Letters for Literary Ladies. 1795. Rpt. NY: Garland, 1974.

Elias, Norbert. The Civilizing Process: the History of Manners. Trans. Edmund Jephcott. NY: Urizen, 1978.

Elshtain, Jean Bethke. Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1981.

Ezell, Margaret J. M.. "Making History: Early English Women Writers and the Conception of National Literary Histories." South Atlantic Review 59.2 (1994): 11-33.

_____. The Patriach's Wife: Literary Evidence and the History of the Family. Chapel Hill, NC: U of North Carolina P, 1987.

Fell, John. An Essay toward an English Grammar. London, 1784.

Felski, Rita. Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1989.

Fénelon, François de Salignac. Instructions for the Education of a Daughter. Trans. George Hickes. London: Jonah Bowyer, 1707.

Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones. 1749. NY: Penguin, 1988.

Fisher, Anne. A New English Grammar. Newcastle, 1770.

Foucault, Michel. "The Order of Discourse" in Untying the Text: A Post-Structuralist Reader. Ed. Robert Young. NY: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Introduction.French Women and the Age of Enlightenment. Ed. Samia I. Spencer. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1984.

France, Peter. Politeness and Its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.

Gardiner, Dorothy. English Girlhood at School: A Study of Women's Education Through Tweleve Centuries. Oxford, 1929.

Gerard, Alexander. An Essay on Taste, together with Observations concerning the Imitative Nature of Poetry. 1759. facs. edn of 3rd edn (1780). Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1963.

Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imaginatio. NY: Yale, 1979.

Golden, James L. and Edward P.J. Corbett, eds. Hugh Blair. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 1783. Rpt. The Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and Whateley. Carbondale and Edwardsville: S. Illinois UP, 1990.

Golden, James L., Goodwin F. Berquist, and William Coleman. The Rhetoric of Western Thought. 4th ed. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1989.

Goodman, Dena. "Public Sphere and Private Life: Toward a Synthesis of Current Historiographical Approaches to the Old Regime." History and Theory 31 (1992): 1-20.

_____. The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment. Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1994.

Gordon, Daniel. Citizens without Sovereignty: Equality and Sociability in French Thought, 1670-1789. Princeton, NJ: Princeton, 1994.

Gray's Inn Journal. Ed. Donald D. Eddy. Vol. I. NY: Garland, 1979.

Guillory, John. Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1993.

Habermas, Jürgen. The Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Trans. Thomas Burger. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1989.

Hans, N. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. London, 1951.

Harding, Sandra. The Science Question in Feminism. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1986.

Harding, Sandra and M. Hintikka, eds. Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1983.

Harris, James. Hermes; or, a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Language and Universal Grammar, 1751.

Hepworth, Brian. Robert Lowth. Boston: Twayne, 1978.

Hill, Bridget. Women, Work and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.

Holmes, John. The Art of Rhetoric Made Easy. Norwich and Dublin, 1755.

Home, Henry, Lord Kames. Elements of Criticism. 1762. London, 1839.

Horner, Winifred Bryan. Nineteenth-Century Scottish Rhetoric: The American Connection. Carbondale and Edwardsville: S. Illinois UP, 1993.

_____. The Present State of Scholarship in Historical and Contemporary Rhetoric. Carbondale and Edwardsville: S. Illinois UP, 1990.

Howell, Wilbur S. Eighteenth-Century British Logic and Rhetoric. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1971.

Hume, David. "Of the Middle Station of Life" in Essays Moral, Political, and Literary. Indianapolis, IN: LibertyClassics, 1987.

_____. "Of the Standard of Taste" in Essays Moral, Political, and Literary. Indianapolis, IN: LibertyClassics, 1987.

_____. The Letters of David Hume. 2 vols. Ed. J.Y.T. Grieg. Oxford: Clarendon, 1932.

Hunter, Jean E. "The Eighteenth-Century Englishwoman: According to The Gentleman's Magazine" in Women in the Eighteenth Century and Other Essays. Eds. Paul Fritz and Richard Morton. Toronto and Sarasota: Hakkert & Co., 1976: 73-88.

Inchbald, Elizabeth. A Simple Story. 1791. NY: Oxford, 1967.

Johnson, Samuel. Selections from The Idler. Eighteenth-Century Critical Essays. Ed. Scott Elledge. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1961.

_____. Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Ed. Allen T. Hazen. New Haven: Yale UP, 1958.

Jones, Vivien, ed. Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity. NY: Routledge, 1990.

Joseph, John Earl. Eloquence and Power: The Rise of Language Standards and Standard Languages. London: Francis Pinter, 1987.

Keller, Evelyn Fox. Reflections on Gender and Science. New Haven: Yale, 1985.

Klein, Lawrence. Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness. Moral Discourse and Cultural Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century England. London: Cambridge, 1994.

Knox, Vicesimus. Liberal Education: or, a Practical Treatise on the Methods of Acquiring Useful and Polite Learning. 7th ed. London, 1785.

Land, Stephen. From Signs to Propositions: The Concept of Form in Eighteenth-Century Semantic Theory. London: Longman, 1974.

Landes, Joan. Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution. Ithaca: Cornell, 1988.

Langbauer, Laurie. "Romance Revised: Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 18.1 (1984): 29-49.

Langford, Paul. A Polite and Commercial People: England, 1727-1783. Oxford: Clarenden, 1989.

Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1990.

Lennox, Charlotte. The Female Quixote. 1752. Rpt. NY: Oxford UP, 1989.

Leppert, Richard. The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body. Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of CA P, 1993.

Lowth, Robert. An Introduction to English Grammar, 1762. Rpt. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1979.

Marchant, John. A New Complete English Dictionary, Peculiarly Adapted to the Instruction and Improvement of Those who have not had the Benefit of a Learned or Liberal Education. To which is prefixed a compendious grammar....by D. Bellamy. London, 1760.

Marriott, Thomas. Female Conduct: being an Essay on the Art of Pleasing. To be Practised by the Fair Sex, before, and after Marriage. A Poem, in Two Books. 3rd edn. 1775.

McIntosh, Carey. Review of H. Lewis Ulman's Things, Thoughts, Words, and Actions: The Problem of Language in Late Eighteenth-Century British Rhetorical Theory. Eighteenth-Century Scotland 9 (Spring 1995): 32-33.

McKeon, Michael. "Historicizing Patriarchy: The Emergence of Gender Difference in England, 1660-1760." Eighteenth-Century Studies28.3 (1995): 295-322.

Merchant, Carolyn. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1980.

Michaels, Ian. The Teaching of English from the Sixteenth Century to 1870. London: Cambridge, 1987.

Milroy, J. "The History of English in the British Isles." Language in the British Isles. Ed. Peter Trudgill. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984: 5-31.

Milroy, James and Lesley Milroy. Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and Standardisation. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 1991.

Moir, John. Female Tuition; or, an Address to Mothers, on the Education of Daughters. J. Murray: London, 1784.

Montgomery, Robert. Terms of Response: Language and Audience in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Theory. University Park, PA: PA State UP, 1992.

Moore, Edward and Frances. Fables for the Female Sex. 1744.

More, Hannah. Essays on Various Subjects, Especially Designed for the Young Ladies. 1777.The Works of Hannah More. Vol. II. NY: Harper & Bros, 1855.

_____. Moriana. The Works of Hannah More. Vol. II. NY: Harper & Bros, 1855.

_____. Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. 1799. Rpt. NY: Garland, 1974.

Newbery, John (publisher). A Spelling Dictionary of the English Language on a New Plan. London, 1766.

Okin, Susan Moller. "Women and the Making of the Sentimental Family." Philosophy and Public Affairs 11.1 (1989): 65-88.

Parker, Patricia. Literary Fat Ladies: Rhetoric, Gender, Property . NY: Methuen, 1987.

Pennington, Sarah. An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters, in a letter to Miss Pennington. London: J. and H. Hughes, 1770.

Perry, Ruth. Women, Letters and the Novel. NY: AMS, 1980.

Philpot, Stephen. An Essay on the Advantages of a Polite Education Joined with a Learned One. London, 1747.

Pinchbeck, Ivy. Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850. 1930. Rpt. London: Virago, 1981.

Pocock, J.G. The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1975.

_____ Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century. NY: Cambridge, 1976, 1985.

The Polite Student. London, 1748.

Pollak, Ellen. The Poetics of Sexual Myth: Gender and Ideology in the Verse of Swift and Pope. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1985.

Pope, Alexander. The Poems (Twickenham ed.). 10 vols. Ed. John Butt. London: Methuen, 1939-69.

Potkay, Adam. The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume. Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1994.

Priestley, Joseph. On the Rudiments of the English Language. 1761. EL No. 210.

Quintilian. Institutes of Oratory: or, Education of an Orator. Trans. John Selby Watson. London: George Bell, 1876.

Reeve, Clara. Plans of Education, with Remarks on the Systems of Other Writers. 1792. Rpt. NY: Garland, 1974.

Reynolds, Myra. The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760. NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1920.

Richardson, Samuel. The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson. 6 vols. London, R. Philips, 1804.

_____. Sir Charles Grandison. NY: Oxford UP, 1986.

Richetti, John. "The Public Sphere and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Social Criticism and Narrative Enlightenment." Eighteenth-Century Life 16 (1992): 114-29.

Robbins, Bruce, ed. The Phantom Public Sphere. Minneapolis, MN: U of MN P, 1993.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques. Selections from Emile. 1762. Trans., William Boyd. NY: Bureau of Publications, Teacher's College, Columbia Univ., 1962.

Runge, Laura. "Gendered Strategies in the Criticism of Early Fiction." Eighteenth-Century Studies 28.4 (1995): 363-78.

Sambrook, James. The Eighteenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1700-1789. NY: Longman, 1986.

Seally, John. The Lady's Encyclopedia: or, a Concise Analysis of the Belles Lettres, the Fine Arts, and the Sciences. 1788. Vol II. Rpt. NY: Garland, 1972.

Sennett, Richard. Authority. NY: Knopf, 1980.

_____. The Fall of Public Man. NY: Alfred Knopf, 1977.

Sher, Richard B. Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate Literati of Edinburgh. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1985.

Shevelow, Kathryn. Women and Print Culture: The Construction of Femininity in the Early Periodical. NY: Routledge, 1989.

Sidney, Sir Philip. The Defense of Poesy. Boston, 1890.

Smith, Adam. The Correspondence of Adam Smith. Ed. Ernest C. Mossner and Ian S. Ross. Clarenden: Oxford, 1987.

_____. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. 1776. Rpt. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1976.

_____. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres...Reported by a Student in 1762-3, ed. J.C. Bryce. Oxford: Clarenden Press, 1983.

_____. "Letter to the Edinburgh Review." in Essays on Philosophical Subjects. Ed. I.S. Ross. Indianapolis, IN: LibertyClassics, 1982: 242-254.

_____. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. 1759. Rpt. Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 1982.

Smith, Charlotte. The Old Manor House. 1793. London: Oxford UP, 1969.

Smith, Olivia. The Politics of Language, 1791-1819. Oxford: Clarenden UP, 1984.

Smollett, Tobias. Roderick Random. 1748. NY: Signet, 1964.

Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800. NY: Harper & Row, 1977.

The Student; or, the Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany. Vol 1. Ed. Donald D. Eddy. Rpt. NY: Garland: 1979.

Thompson, E.P. "Happy Families." Radical History Review 20 (1979): 42-50.

Todd, Janet. The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing, and Fiction, 1660-1800. London: Virago, 1989.

Tompson, Richard S. Classics or Charity?: The Dilemma of Eighteenth Century Grammar Schools. Manchester, 1971.

Tooke, John Horne. E[[Pi]]EA [[Pi]]T EPOENTA or the Diversions of Purley. 1798-1805. London: W. Tegg, 1857.

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Turner, Cheryl. Living by the Pen: Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century. NY: Routledge, 1992.

Ulman, H. Lewis. Things, Thoughts, Words, and Actions: The Problem of Language in Late Eighteenth-Century British Rhetorical Theory. Carbondale and Edwardsville: S. Illinois UP, 1994.

Warnick, Barbara. "Charles Rollin's Traite and the Rhetorical Theories of Smith, Campbell, and Blair." Rhetorica 3.1 (1985): 45-65.

Warton, Joseph. Selections from The Adventurer. Eighteenth-Century Critical Essays. Ed. Scott Elledge. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1961.

Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding. Berkeley and LA: U of CA P, 1957.

West, Jane. The Advantages of Education. 1793. Rpt. NY: Garland, 1974.

Williams, Raymond. Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. NY: Oxford, 1976.

Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1989.

Yearzell, Ruth Bernard. Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel., Chicago: U Chicago P, 1991.

 

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