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Celebrity Culture and the Myth of Oceania in Britain
An intriguing case study on how popular images of Oceania, mediated through a developing culture of celebrity, contributed to the formation of British identity both domestically …
British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century
This innovative collection explores how a distinctively British model of sociability developed in the period from the Restoration of Charles II to the early nineteenth century …
British Catholic Merchants in the Commercial Age
A rich picture of commercial life among the British Catholic merchants operating in the Atlantic and Mediterranean at the end of the Stuart era. British Catholic merchants in the …
Changing Pedagogies for Children in Eighteenth-Century England
Using pedagogy as a lens through which to explore issues of gender, social class, power and hegemony, Cohen's study makes a major new contribution to the study of education in …
Converting Britannia
A compelling study of Anglican Evangelicalism in the Age of Wilberforce revealing its potency as a political machine whose reach extended into every area of the British …
Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840
Highlights the centrality of non-canonical, middle-ranking women writers to the production of literature and culture in Britain, Ireland, Europe and Russia in the late eighteenth …
Lessons of Travel in Eighteenth-Century France
A study of the literature of the 'art of travel' in eighteenth-century France, showing how consideration of who should travel and for what purpose provided an occasion for wider …
The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh
This innovative book explores how the making of Edinburgh as an influential Enlightenment capital depended on a series of spatial processes that extended across urban, regional, …
Fictions of Presence
An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "presence" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century. In the years following the 1737 Licensing Act, the …
Things that Didn't Happen
An innovative exploration of fake news and alternative reality in late Stuart and early Hanoverian political and literary culture, from the Popish Plot and the South Sea Bubble to …
Ephemeral Print Culture in Early Modern England
Uses the collections of ephemera popular in the late seventeenth century as a way to understand the reading habits, publishing strategies and thought processes of late Stuart print …
Material Enlightenment
A methodologically innovative account of the role of women writers in the development of early psychological theory and practice in the long eighteenth century. Women writers …