Books By Nicholas Seager, J. A. Downie - Author

Nicholas Seager is Professor of English Literature and Head of the School of Humanities at Keele University. He has published on literature of the long eighteenth century, including Bunyan, Swift, Defoe, Richardson, Johnson, Sterne, Goldsmith, and Austen. He is the editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe (2022), and co-editor of The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (2015) and The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels (2023). He has recently completed an edition of Defoe's The Fortunate Mistress for Oxford World's Classics. J. A. Downie is Emeritus Professor of English at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1991 to 1995 and Pro-Warden (Academic) from 1995 to 2002. His books include Robert Harley and the Press (1979), Jonathan Swift, Political Writer (1984), To Settle the Succession of the State: Literature and Politics, 1678-1750 (1994), and A Political Biography of Henry Fielding (2009). He edited two vo