Urban Enlightenment offers the first literary history of the British periodical essay spanning the entire eighteenth century, and the first to study the genre's development and cultural impact in a transatlantic context.

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Richard Squibbs is Assistant Professor of English at DePaul University in Chicago, USA. His articles on eighteenth-century British and early American literature have appeared in ELH, Modern Philology and Huntington Library Quarterly.

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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Reviewing a Genre 2. London's Character 3. Characters of the Age 4. Public Prospects 5. Scottish Variations 6. Federalist Revisions 7. Irving's Knickerbocker in Retrospect Afterword