Talk Of The Town

Ann C. Dean

• Hardcover | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Argues that in eighteenth-century Britain, the public sphere was a figure of speech created by juxtaposed images of more limited, local, and particula... Lees meer

Art and Money in the Writings of Tobias Smollett

William Gibson

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Shedding new light on a misunderstood master, this study situates Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) as a key witness to the birth of the modern commercial a... Lees meer

'Better in France?'

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• This book discusses the way ideas and forms traveled between Britain and France during the eighteenth century, and the extent to which the circulation... Lees meer

Peripheral Wonders

Margaret R Ewalt

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• This book expands traditional conceptions of the Enlightenment by examining the roles of wonder and Jesuit missionary conceptions of the Enlightenment... Lees meer

Lactilla Tends Her Fav'rite Cow

Anne Milne

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• This volume brings together issues of gender, class, and species through a study of a selection of poetry by five eighteenth-century British laboring-... Lees meer

Monstrous Society

David Collings

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Monstrous Society argues that in the eighteenth-century moral economy, power was divided between official authority and the counter-power of plebeians... Lees meer

Imperial Characters

Tara Ghoshal Wallace

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• During the long eighteenth century, Britain won and lost an empire in North America while consolidating its hegemony on the Indian subcontinent. The i... Lees meer

Ritual Violence and the Maternal in the British Novel, 1740-1820

Raymond Hilliard

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• This book brings to light a mythic dimension of seventeen important eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century narratives that revolve around the persec... Lees meer

Time and Ways of Knowing Under Louis XIV

Roland Racevskis

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• What can we know about the understanding of time in a particular cultural or historical setting, and what can this knowledge tell us about how we thin... Lees meer

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• In this ground-breaking comparative study of Scottish and Irish Romanticism, leading scholars examine literary relations between Scotland, Ireland, an... Lees meer

Freedom, Slavery, and Absolutism

Ziad Elmarsafy

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Ziad Elmarsafy explores the concept of freedom by reading the works of Corneille, Pascal, and Racine as political theories in the guise of literature.... Lees meer

Christopher Smart

Chris Mounsey

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
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Uses of Education

Stephen Bygrave

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• This ambitious book takes education as a paradigm for eighteenth-century thinking, especially "Enlightenment." That egalitarian project required limit... Lees meer

Wilkie Collins and Other Sensation Novelists

Nicholas Rance

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Recent critical interest in the sensation novel, which dominated the literary market in England in the 1860s, has been primarily preoccupied with imag... Lees meer

Presenting Gender

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Presenting Gender engages with one of the most intriguing aspects of Early Modern and Enlightenment culture: gender passing, the phenomenon of passing... Lees meer

Symbolic Interactions

Regina Hewitt

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Taking literally Joanna Baillie's claim that drama can promote social justice, the study explores how plays by Baillie, novels by Walter Scott, and Im... Lees meer

The Taste of the Town

Katherine West Scheil

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• In The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theater , Katherine West Scheil considers the reception history of Sha... Lees meer

Refiguring the Coquette

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• This is a collection of nine original essays selected and edited with a twofold aim: to establish the parameters of coquetry as it was defined and rep... Lees meer

Monstrous Dreams of Reason

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Monstrous Dreams of Reason explores one of the most enduring and intriguing paradoxes of the British Enlightenment: how reason gives rise to both the ... Lees meer

Designing Women

Tita Chico

• Hardcover | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Drawing on extensive archival research, Chico argues that the dressing room, introduced into English domestic architecture during the seventeenth cent... Lees meer

Feeling British

Evan Gottlieb

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Feeling British argues that the discourse of sympathy both encourages and problematizes a sense of shared national identity in eighteenth-century and ... Lees meer

Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660 - 1800

Mita Choudhury

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• In Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater , Mita Choudhury argues that the eighteenth-century British theater is a dynamic expression a... Lees meer

Literary Memory

Catherine Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Catherine Jone's Literary Memory explores the relationship of memory to writing in the "long" eighteenth century in Scotland and America. It does so b... Lees meer

Modes of Discipline

Lisa Wood

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• The events of the French Revolution resulted in a reactionary backlash in Britain in the 1790s, which had radical implications not only for social pol... Lees meer