Pt I: Contexts, Issues and Debates. 1. Literature, War and Politics, 1642-1668 / Martin Dzelzainis ; 2. Women Writers and Readers / Sue Wiseman ; 3. Literature and Party, 1675-1760 / Brean Hammond ; 4. Furnishing the Mind, Creating Social Bonds / Ann Jessie van Sant ; 5. Classical Translation and Imitation / David Hopkins ; 6. Forgery and Plagiarism / Nick Groom ; 7. Literature and Nationhood / Murray Pittock ; 8. The Business of Literature: The Book Trade ni England from Milton to Blake / Michael F. Suarez -- Pt II: Readings. 9. John Milton, Areopagitica / Martin Dzelzainis ; 10. Robert Herrick, Hesperides / Peter Davidson ; 11. Andrew Marvell, 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland' / Thomas Healy -- 12. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan / David Wootton ;13. Katherine Philips, Poems / Jane Spencer ; 14. Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs / David Norbrook ; 15. John Bunyan, Grace Abounding / Anita Pacheco ; 16. John Milton, Paradise Lost / Nicholas von Maltzahn ; 17. Aphra Behn, The Rover / Ros Ballaster ; 18. John Wilmor, second Earl of Rochester, Satire Against Mankind / Paddy Lyons / 19. Aphra Behn, Poems / Sarah Prescott / 20. John Dryden, Fables / David Hopkins ; 21. William Congreve, The Way of the World / Malcolm Kelsall ; 22. Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub / Claude Rawson ; 23. Alexander Pope, Windsor Forest / Christine Gerrard ; 24. John Gay, Trivia / David Nokes ; 25. Daniel Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year / David Womersley ; 26. Eliza Haywood, Fantomina / Sarah Prescott ; 27. James Thomson, The Seasons / David Fairer ; 28. Alexander Pope, The Dunciads / Valerie Rumbold ; 29. Stephen Duck, Poems on Several Subjects / Bridget Keegan ; 30. Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination / David Fairer ; 31. William Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character / Katherine Turner ; 32. Samuel Richardson, Clarissa / Tom Keymer ; 33. Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes / Tom Kaminski ; 34. Henry Fielding, Tom Jones / Richard Braverman ; 35. Thomas Gray, Elegy written in a Country Churchyard / Katherine Turner ; 36. Samuel Johnson, Dictionary / Anne McDermott ; 37. Samuel Johnson, Rasselas / Anne McDermott ; 38. Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno / Alun David ; 39. Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy / David Fairer ; 40. James Macpherson, Fingal and other poems / Dafydd Moore ; 41. Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling / David Womersley ; 42. James Boswell, The Life of Johnson / Bruce Redford ; 43. William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience / Jon Mee.
Pt III: Periods. 44. Literature,1681-1688 / Abigail Williams ; 45. Literature, 1701-1713 / Stuart Sherman ; 46. Literature, 1733-1742 / Christine Gerrard ; 47. Literature, 1757-1776 / Nick Groom -- Pt IV: Genres and Modes. 48. Pamphlets and News / Joad Raymond ; 49. Political Writing / David Wootton ; 50. Philosophical Writing / Peter Walmsley ; 51. Historical Writing / Karen O'Brien ; 52. Religious Writing / Brian Youngm ; 53. The Novel / Simon Varey ; 54. Poetry / David Fairer ; 55. Drama / Paulina Kewes.