Lord Rochester in the Restoration World

Matthew C. Augustine is Lecturer in Late Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of St Andrews. Steven N. Zwicker is Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Washington University, St Louis.

• 1. Lord Rochester in the Restoration world: introduction Matthew C. Augustine and Steven N. Zwicker; 2. John Wilmot and the writing of 'Rochester' Jonathan Sawday; 3. From script to print: marketing Rochester Paul Davis; 4. Trading places: Lord Rochester, the Laureate, and the making of literary reputation Matthew C. Augustine; 5. Lord Rochester: a life in gossip Steven N. Zwicker; 6. Rochester and the satiric underground Nicholas von Maltzahn; 7. Rochester, the theatre, and restoration theatricality David Francis Taylor; 8. Rochester and the play of values Christopher Tilmouth; 9. Sexual and religious libertinism in Restoration England Tim Harris; 10. Sex and sovereignty in Rochester's writing Melissa E. Sanchez; 11. Rochester, Behn, and Enlightenment liberty Ros Ballaster; 12. Unfit to print: Rochester and the poetics of obscenity Tom Jones; 13. The perspective of Rochester's letters Nicholas Fisher; 14. Rochester and rhyme Tom Lockwood.