• ISBN13: 9788171564989
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: May 25, 2021
• Pages: 112
• Original Price: INR 395.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 220 grams

English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century is based on the Lectures prepared by Sir Leslie Stephen for delivery at New College, Oxford. Due to serious breakdown of his health, he could not appear in person and the University had allowed him to employ a deputy, Herbert Fisher, Fellow of New College, to read the Lectures for him.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization. It has been reproduced from the original artefact and remains as true to the original work as possible. The book has been divided into five parts. First two parts deal with the time period of before 1714. The third part deals with time period of 1714-1739; the fourth part with time period of 1739-1763; and the fifth part with time period of 1763-1788.

Sir Leslie Stephen, (28th November 1832, London—22nd February 1904, London), was English critic, man of letters, and first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.
A member of a distinguished intellectual family, Stephen was educated at Eton, at King’s College, London, and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was elected to a fellowship in 1854 and became junior tutor in 1856. Through his brother, James Fitzjames Stephen, a contributor to the Saturday Review, Stephen gained entry to the literary world, contributing to many periodicals. From 1871 to 1882, he edited The Cornhill Magazine, for which he wrote literary criticism. He was one of the first serious critics of the novel. Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edmund Gosse, and Henry James were among those whom Stephen, as an editor, encouraged. Stephen’s English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century was a pioneer work in the sociological study of literature. Painter Vanessa Bell and the novelist Virginia Woolf were his children.