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Louis Sebastien Mercier
French playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sebastien Mercier (1740-1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his …
British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830
Enlightenment-era writers had not yet come to take technology for granted, but nonetheless were as we are today both attracted to and repelled by its potential. This volume …
Making Modern Spain
In this elegantly written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals, journalists, politicians, and clergy who responded to cultural and …
Thomas Holcroft's Revolutionary Drama
A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality informed by the philosophy …
Nature Fantasies
In this original study, Gabriel Horowitz examines the work of select nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American writers through the lens of contemporary theoretical debates …
Mayaya Rising
Who are the Black heroines of Latin America and the Caribbean? Where do we turn for models of transcendence among women of African ancestry in the region? In answer to the …
Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now
In this timely collection, teacher-scholars of "e;the long eighteenth century,"e; a Eurocentric time frame from about 1680 to 1832, consider what teaching means in this …
Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 2
Enlightenment critics from Dryden through Johnson and Wordsworth conceived the modern view that art and especially literature entails a double reflection: a reflection of the …
Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 1
The Enlightenment has been blamed for some of the most deadly developments of modern life: racism and white supremacy, imperialist oppression, capitalist exploitation, neoliberal …
Aesthetics of Kinship
The Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and the corresponding interior subject in the eighteenth …
Space, Drama, and Empire
Spanish poet, playwright, and novelist Felix Lope de Vega (1562-1635) was a key figure of Golden Age Spanish literature, second only in stature to Cervantes, and is considered the …
Alimentary Orientalism
What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orientalist representation by …