18th Century Literature
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From Pastoral Vision to Urban Nightmare: Landscape and Symbolism in Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake’s poetry rarely focuses on scenery for its own sake. The fields, gardens, streets, and…
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Satire on the Road: Health, Hypochondria, and the Body in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, published in 1771, stands out in eighteenth-century satirical writing because it…
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The Most Polite Monsters in Literature: Jonathan Swift and the Civility of Cruelty
There is a certain dread in cruelty administered with calm logic, civility, and reason. Jonathan Swift’s…