Introduction: David Womersley. Notes on Contributors. Part I: Contexts, Issues and Debates: . 1. The Civil War and British Literature: Martin Dzelzainis. 2. Women Writers and Readers: Sue Wiseman. 3.
Literature and Party: Brean Hammond. 4. Sentiment and Sensibility: Ann Jessie van Sant. 5. Classical Imitation: David Hopkins. 6. Forgery and Plagiarism: Nick Groom. 7.
Literature and Nationhood: Murray Pittock. 8. The Book Trade: Michael Suarez. Part II: Readings: . 9. Milton, Areopagitica: Martin Dzelzainis. 10. Herrick, Hesperides: Peter Davidson.
11. Marvell, Horatian Ode: Thomas Healy. 12. Hobbes, Leviathan: David Wootton. 13. Katherine Philips, Poems: Jane Spencer. 14. Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs: David Norbrook.
15. Bunyan, Grace Abounding: Anita Pacheco. 16. Milton, Paradise Lost: Nicholas von Maltzahn. 17. Aphra Behn, The Rover: Ros Ballaster. 18. Rochester, Satyr Against Reason à: Paddy Lyons.
19. Aphra Behn, Poems: Sarah Prescott. 20. Dryden, Fables: David Hopkins. 21. Congreve, The Way of the World: Malcolm Kelsall. 22. Swift, Tale of a Tub: Claude Rawson.
23. Pope, Windsor Forest: Christine Gerrard. 24. Gay, Trivia: David Nokes. 25. Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year: David Womersley. 26. Eliza Haywood, Fantomina: Sarah Prescott.
27. Thomson, The Seasons: David Fairer. 28. Pope, Dunciad: Valerie Rumbold. 29. Duck, Poems on Several Subjects: Bridget Keegan. 30. Akenside, Pleasures of the Imagination: David Fairer.
31. Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character: Katherine Turner. 32. Richardson, Clarissa: Tom Keymer. 33. Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes: Tom Kaminski. 34. Fielding, Tom Jones: Richard Braverman.
35. Gray, An Elegy à:Katherine Turner. 36. Johnson, Dictionary: Anne McDermott. 37. Johnson, Rasselas: Anne McDermott. 38. Smart, Jubilate Agno: Alun David.
39. Sterne, Tristram Shandy: David Fairer. 40. Macpherson, Fingal: Dafydd Moore. 41. Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling: David Womersley. 42. Boswell, The Life of Johnson: Bruce Redford.
43. Blake, Innocence and Experience: Jon Mee. Part III: Periods: . 45. 1681-1688: Abigail Williams. 46. 1701-1713: Stuart Sherman. 47.
1733-1742: Christine Gerrard. 48. 1756-1776: Nick Groom. Part IV: Genres and Modes: . 49. Pamphlets and News: Joad Raymond. 50. Political Writing: David Wootton.
51. Philosophical Writing: Peter Walmsley. 52. Historical Writing: Karen O'Brien. 53. Religious Writing: Brian Young. 54. The Novel: Simon Varey.
55. Poetry: David Fairer. 56. Drama: Paulina Kewes. Index.