BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 RESTORATION LITERATURE -- THE DEFEATED REPUBLICANS -- WRITINGS OF THE NONCONFORMISTS -- WRITINGS OF THE ROYALISTS -- MAJOR GENRES AND AUTHORS OF THE PERIOD -- CHRONICLERS -- DIARISTS -- THE COURT WITS -- JOHN DRYDEN -- DRAMA BY DRYDEN AND OTHERS -- CHAPTER 2 THE 18TH CENTURY -- PUBLICATION OF POLITICAL MATERIAL -- PERIODICAL JOURNALISM -- MAJOR POLITICAL WRITERS -- ALEXANDER POPE -- THOMSON, PRIOR, AND GAY -- SWIFT -- SHAFTESBURY AND OTHERS -- MAJOR NOVELISTS -- DANIEL DEFOE -- SAMUEL RICHARDSON -- HENRY FIELDING -- TOBIAS SMOLLETT -- LAURENCE STERNE -- FANNY BURNEY -- POETS AND POETRY AFTER POPE -- ROBERT BURNS -- OLIVER GOLDSMITH -- SAMUEL JOHNSON'S POETRY AND PROSE -- 18TH-CENTURY DRAMA -- CHAPTER 3 THE ROMANTIC PERIOD -- POETRY -- THE MAJOR ROMANTIC POETS -- OTHER POETS OF THE EARLY ROMANTIC PERIOD -- OTHER POETS OF THE LATER PERIOD -- THE NOVEL -- GOTHIC NOVEL -- POLITICAL FICTION -- WOMEN AND PROSE FICTION -- SIR WALTER SCOTT -- DISCURSIVE PROSE -- CHARLES LAMB -- WILLIAM HAZLITT -- THOMAS DE QUINCEY -- DRAMA -- EPILOGUE -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- THE RESTORATION AND THE 18TH CENTURY -- THE ROMANTIC PERIOD -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.