The Literature and Culture of the Closet
in the Eighteenth Century

Danielle Bobker

Home Overview Course Themes The Eighteenth Century/The Closet: Two Introductions The Philosophy of Progress Rooms for Improvement Privacy and Modernity I: The Family Privacy and Modernity II: The Public Sphere The Courtly Closet and the Closet of Devotion The Cabinet of Curiosity and the Dressing Room Privy Pastoral Epistolary Spaces (Homo)Erotic Closets Gothic Collections, Gothic Chambers Texts John Locke Samuel Pepys Philippe Ariès Michael McKeon Jürgen Habermas Michael Warner Joseph Addison and Richard Steele Anthony Hamilton Edward Wettenhall The Ladies Cabinet broke Open Modern Curiosities of Art and Nature Cabinet of Momus Cabinet of Choice Jewels Alexander Pope Ben Jonson Jonathan Swift Mary Wortley Montagu Samuel Rolleston Eliza Haywood Samuel Richardson John Cleland Horace Walpole Images Closets Without Walls Database Browse Alphabetically by Title Browse by Date Browse by Class Spiritual Advice Educational Miscellany Religious Miscellany Miscellany of art or music Miscellany Catalogue Fiction Recipe book Miscellany of biographical materials Literary miscellany Historical miscellany Bibliography