Sources
Listed here are all the sources used in the compilation of this chronology. Many of these have been consulted as reference resources and are only cited directly in the main chronology when a specific citation is warranted. All such citations are, however, linked directly to this sources list.
Bannet 2000
Bannet, Eve Tavor. The Domestic Revolution: Enlightenment Feminisms and the Novel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000.
Brack & Chilton, ed. 2005
Brack, O. M., Jr. and Leslie Chilton, ed. The Devil upon Crutches. By Alain René Le Sage. Trans. Tobias Smollett. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2005.
Cannadine 2003
Cannadine, David. In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.
Chamberlain 2000
Chamberlain, Muriel E. The Longman Companion to The Formation of the European Empires, 1488-1920. London: Longman, 2000.
Christie 1965
Christie, Ian. "Was There a 'New Toryism' in the Earlier Part of George III's Reign?" Journal of British Studies 5 (1965): 60-76.
Cox 2002
Cox, Michael, ed. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002. All citations of this work are from Vol. 1.
Cross 1929
Cross, Wilbur L. The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne. 3rd ed. New Haven: Yale UP, 1929; repr. New York: Russell and Russell, 1967.
Defoe 1722
Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year. 1722. Ed. Paula Backscheider. New York: Norton, 1992.
DeMaria, ed. 1996
DeMaria, Robert, ed. British Literature, 1640-1789: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
Engels 1845
Engels, Friedrich. The Condition of the Working Class in England. 1845; repr. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1993.
Erskine-Hill 1998
Erskine-Hill, Howard. "Pope and Slavery." Alexander Pope: World and Word. Ed. Howard Erskine-Hill. Proceedings of the British Academy 91 (1998): 27-53.
Fabel 1974
Fabel, Robin. "The Patriotic Briton: Tobias Smollett and English Politics, 1756-1771." Eighteenth-Century Studies 8 (1974): 100-14.
Fairer & Gerrard, ed. 2004
Fairer, David and Christine Gerrard, ed. Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
Furbank & Owens, ed. 1997
Furbank, P. N. and W. R. Owens, ed. The True-Born Englishman and Other Writings, by Daniel Defoe. London: Penguin, 1997.
Greene 2005
Greene, Jody. The Trouble with Ownership: Literary Property and Authorial Liability in England, 1660-1730. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2005.
Gregory & Stevenson 2000
Gregory, Jeremy and John Stevenson. The Longman Companion to Britain in the Eighteenth Century 1688-1820. London: Longman, 2000. (Longman Companions to History). See especially, "Cultural and Intellectual Chronology, 1688-1820," 325-63.
Harris 2004
Harris, Susan Cannon. "Clearing the Stage: Gender, Class, and the Freedom of the Scenes in Eighteenth-Century Dublin." PMLA 119 (2004): 1264-78.
Hay & Rogers 1997
Hay, Douglas and Nicholas Rogers. Eighteenth-Century English Society: Shuttles and Swords. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997.
Hayton 1984
Hayton, David. "Walpole and Ireland." Britain in the Age of Walpole. Ed. Jeremy Black. New York: St. Martin's P, 1984. 95-119 and 235-39 (notes).
Holman 1986
Holman, C. Hugh and William Harmon, comp. A Handbook to Literature. 5th ed. New York: Macmillan, 1986. [First ed. 1936]. See especially, "Outline of Literary History: English and American [55 B.C.-1984]," 535-92.
Hoppit 2000
Hoppit, Julian. A Land of Liberty? England 1689-1727. Oxford: Clarendon P, 2000. (The New Oxford History of England). See especially, "Chronology [1689-1727]," 496-509.
Kolb & Sledd 1952
Kolb, Gwin and James Sledd. "Johnson's Definitions of Whig and Tory." PMLA 67 (1952): 882-85.
Langford 1989
Langford, Paul. A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783. 1989; repr. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992. (The New Oxford History of England). See especially, "Chronology [1727-1783]," 727-39.
Mack 1988
Mack, Maynard. Alexander Pope: A Life. 1985. New York: Norton, 1988.
Meroney 1968
Meroney, Geraldine. "The London Entrepôt Merchants and the Georgia Colony." William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser., 25.2 (1968): 230-44.
Mintz 1985
Mintz, Sidney W. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York: Penguin, 1985.
Parsons 1999
Parsons, Timothy H. The British Imperial Century, 1815-1914: A World History Approach. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
Prest 1998
Prest, Wilfrid. Albion Ascendant: English History, 1660-1815. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998. (The Short Oxford History of the Modern World). See especially, "Chronology [England, 1660-1815]," 323-29.
Probyn 1987
Probyn, Clive T. English Fiction of the Eighteenth Century 1700-1789. London: Longman, 1987. (Longman Literature in English Series). See especially, "Chronology [1700-1789]," 189-210.
Sack 1993
Sack, James J. From Jacobite to Conservative: Reaction and Orthodoxy in Britain, c. 1760-1832. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993.
Sambrook 1993
Sambrook, James. The Eighteenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature 1700-1789. 2nd ed. London: Longman, 1993. [First ed. 1986]. (Longman Literature in English Series). See especially, "Chronology [1700-1789]," 244-69.
Scott 2000
Scott, Virginia. Molière: A Theatrical Life. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
Shapin 2006
Shapin, Steven. "Sick City: Maps and Mortality in the Time of Cholera." New Yorker (6 Nov. 2006): 110-15.
Smallman-Raynor, et al. 2002
Smallman-Raynor, Matthew, Niall Johnson, and Andrew D. Cliff. "The Spatial Anatomy of an Epidemic: Influenza in London and the County Boroughs of England and Wales, 1918-1919." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers n.s. 27.4 (2002): 452-70.
Sosin 1982
Sosin, Jack M. English America and the Revolution of 1688: Royal Administration and the Structure of Provincial Government. Lincoln: U of Nebraska, P, 1982.
Stephens, ed. 1982
Stephens, John Calhoun, ed. The Guardian. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1982.
Webster 1990
Webster, Richard. A Brief History of Blasphemy: Liberalism, Censorship and "The Satanic Verses". Suffolk: The Orwell P, 1990.
Willman 1974
Willman, Robert. "The Origin of 'Whig' and 'Tory' in English Political Language." Historical Journal 17.2 (1974): 247-64.
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