Literary History Writing, 1770-1820

APRIL LONDON is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel (1999).

Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: WRITING AND REWRITING LIVES Writing Lives Rewriting Lives: Revolution, Reaction, and Apostasy PART II: LITERARY HISTORY AND BOOKS Bibliomania and Antiquarianism Literary History and Literary Specimens PART III: ISAAC D'ISTAELI AND LITERARY HISTORY Apostasy and Exclusion The Structures of Opinion PART IV: THE GENRES OF LITERARY HISTORY The 'whole mind of the nation' Literary History, Periodicals, Lectures Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index