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MacPherson, C.B. The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1962.
Paulson, Ronald. The Beautiful, Novel, and the Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy. Baltimore: The John's Hopkins UP, 1996
Rees, Christine. Utopian Imagination and Eighteenth-Century Fiction. NY: Longman Publishing, 1996.
Christine Rees discusses utopian fictions of the eighteenth-century in this text. While recognizing that utopian writing in this period frequently constitutes only a part, not the whole, of a given text, Rees considers how the utopian ideas integrate with larger social issues in several novels. Specifically of Samuel Richardson, Rees writes: "In all his novels, Richardson investigates, with considerable subtlety, the tensions and conflicts involved in gender difference, and this applies equally to the workings of the utopian imagination which is shaped by the contrasting experiences of men and women" (191).
Tobin, Beth Fowkes, ed. History, Gender and Eighteenth-Century Literature. Athens and London: U of Georgia P, 1994.
This collection of articles provides an excellent investigation of texts from late seventeenth to the early nineteenth-century, from popular and subliterary genres, such as conduct books and agricultural manuals, to the "classics" of the periods. This collection provides an understanding of the economic, political, and cultural circumstances of women's and men's lives while using a wide range of historical approaches, including biographical, new historicist and Marxist.