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Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660-1820
Between 1660 and 1820, Great Britain experienced significant structural transformations in class, politics, economy, print, and writing that produced new and varied spaces and with …
British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century
Highlighting the remarkable women who found ways around the constraints placed on their intellectual growth, this collection of essays shows how their persistence opened up …
Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830
Although the broad topic of time and literature in the long eighteenth century has received focused attention from successive generations of literary critics, this book adopts a …
Graveyard Poetry
While immensely popular in the eighteenth century, current critical wisdom regards graveyard poetry as a short-lived fad with little lasting merit. In the first book-length study …
Painting the Novel
Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction focuses on the interrelationship between eighteenth-century theories of the novel and the art of …
Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films
In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films, Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book …
British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and …
Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850
In this collection, the essays examine the critical role that judgments about noise and sound played in framing the meaning of civility in British discourse and literature during …
The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830
From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, businessmen, travel writers, and …
Bluestockings Now!
Bringing together top specialists in the field, this edited volume challenges the theory that the eighteenth-century British intellectual women known as the Bluestockings were an …
Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination
In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term ’slavery’ to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave …
Making Gender, Culture, and the Self in the Fiction of Samuel Richardson
Proposing that Samuel Richardson's novels were crucial for the construction of female individuality in the mid-eighteenth century, Bonnie Latimer shows that Richardson's heroines …