The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789

• Broad coverage of writers and texts presents a new picture of 18th-century British authorship
• Takes advantage of newly expanded eighteenth-century canon to include significantly more women writers and labouring-class writers than have traditionally been studied
• Draws on the latest scholarship to more accurately reflect the literary achievements of the long eighteenth century

Julian Ferraro is Lecturer, School of English, University of Liverpool. He is the author of several articles on literature of the period and is one of the editors of The Poems of Alexander Pope in the Longman Annotated English Poets (2010).

Pat Rogers holds the DeBartolo Chair in the Liberal Arts, University of South Florida. He is one of the foremost authorities on eighteenth-century literature and has written or edited over thirty books on the period. He has worked extensively on Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, and Daniel Defoe, among many others. His recent publications include The Alexander Pope Encyclopedia (2004), Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts (2005), and the edited collection, The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope (2008).