Pope to Burney, 1714–1779: Scriblerians to Bluestockings

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
General Editor\'s Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Introduction: Defining the eighteenth century: public sphere conversations......Page 20
Literary groups and coteries: from the Scriblerians to the Bluestockings......Page 25
Collaborative writing......Page 32
The emergence of a reading public and subscription publishing......Page 36
The circulating library, the book club and literary reviewing......Page 41
Conversational circles and texts......Page 44
Part I Conversational Forms......Page 50
1 Literary Communities......Page 52
Literary groups......Page 53
Communities of readers and spectators......Page 69
Testing sociability: speaking to strangers......Page 97
2 Social/Textual Forms......Page 104
The novel......Page 106
Textual letters: the familiar letter, the verse epistle and epistolary fiction......Page 118
The dialogue and other conversational forms......Page 133
The periodical......Page 140
The republic of letters......Page 150
3 Female Communities......Page 157
Women\'s place in the public sphere......Page 158
Imaginative female communities......Page 163
Women\'s involvement in the creation of the \'public sphere\'......Page 178
\'Almost a Scriblerian\': the case of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu......Page 181
The public emergence of the woman writer......Page 187
Part II Textual Conversations......Page 192
Textual Conversations: Introduction......Page 194
4 The Dunciad: Associating with \'Republica Grubstreetaria\'......Page 197
5 Gulliver\'s Travels: Ceding Interpretations......Page 212
6 The Political Controversies of Pamela......Page 228
Textual Conversations: Conclusion......Page 245
7 Afterword: Continuing the Conversation......Page 254
Chronology......Page 259
Key Concepts and Contexts......Page 281
Annotated Bibliography......Page 286
Bibliography......Page 292
B......Page 314
D......Page 315
G......Page 316
L......Page 317
P......Page 318
S......Page 319
W......Page 320
Z......Page 321