WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Thanks to Purdue University Press' first digital book, readers can learn what some of the greatest minds in 18th century literature might say today if they traded their quill ...

The term “digital pedagogy” has now achieved the same status as “interdisciplinarity” or “entrepreneurial scholarship.” We express enthusiasm about it publicly, while privately confessing that we ...

Eighteenth-century literature was limited to one medium – but modern research of the period no longer has to be. Digital Defoe, an online, interactive, peer-reviewed journal, launched earlier this ...

Not many college students who plan to be English majors can escape a careful study of Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock." "It's a mainstay of teaching 18th-century literature," said Sophie Gee, ...

IRVING N. ROTHMAN is an expert on Daniel Defoe, the 18th-century English author of "Robinson Crusoe." His knowledge of the author of a novel about a shipwrecked man who learns to survive on a deserted ...

O M Brack, Jr. teaches courses in Restoration and 18th century English literature, bibliography and research methods, textual criticism, textual editing, and the history of the book. He has directed ...

In recent decades, fictional and quasi-fictional late 18th century works about real or imagined visits to the Indian subcontinent, and even interesting travel narratives written by relatively little ...

William C. Edinger, a professor and specialist in poetry and 18th century literature who was a founder of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s English Honors Program and was a jazz and ...