Excitable Imaginations

Kathleen Lubey

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Excitable Imaginations offers a new approach to the history of pornography. Looking beyond a counter-canon of bawdy literature, Kathleen Lubey identif... Lees meer

Families of the Heart

Ann Campbell

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• In this innovative analysis of canonical British novels, Campbell identifies a new literary device--the surrogate family--as a signal of cultural anxi... Lees meer

Narrative Mourning

Kathleen M Oliver

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Narrative Mourning explores death and its relics as they appear within the confines of the eighteenth-century British novel. It argues that the cultur... Lees meer

Novel Bodies

Jason S Farr

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Novel Bodies examines how disability shapes the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century novelists repr... Lees meer

Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen

Jocelyn Harris

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, Jocelyn Harris argues thatJane Austen was a satirist, a celebrity-watcher, and a keen political obs... Lees meer

Louis Sébastien Mercier

Michael J Mulryan

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• French playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revo... Lees meer

Beside the Bard

George S Christian

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Beside the Bard argues that Scottish poetry in the age of Burns reclaims not a single past, dominated and overwritten by the unitary national language... Lees meer

Minds in Motion

Anne M Thell

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• The central claim of Minds in Motion is that British travel writing of the long eighteenth century functions as an epistemological playing field where... Lees meer

Jane Austen and Comedy

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Jane Austen and Comedy takes for granted two related notions. First, Jane Austen's books are funny; they induce laughter, and that laughter is worth a... Lees meer

The Novel Stage

Marcie Frank

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• 2020 Choice ​ Outstanding Academic Title Marcie Frank's study traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage... Lees meer

Thomas Holcroft's Revolutionary Drama

Amy Garnai

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equalit... Lees meer

Louis Sébastien Mercier

Michael J Mulryan

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• French playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revo... Lees meer

Beside the Bard

George S Christian

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Beside the Bard argues that Scottish poetry in the age of Burns reclaims not a single past, dominated and overwritten by the unitary national language... Lees meer

The Novel Stage

Marcie Frank

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• 2020 Choice ​ Outstanding Academic Title Marcie Frank's study traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage... Lees meer

Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment

Yaël Schlick

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Taking the Enlightenment and the feminist tradition to which it gave rise as its historical and philosophical coordinates, Feminism and the Politics o... Lees meer

Rewriting Crusoe

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Published in 1719, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its p... Lees meer

Global Romanticism

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Building on postcolonial and transatlantic paradigms as well as new theoretical developments like Actor-Network-Theory, Global Romanticism: Origins, O... Lees meer

Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• In this timely collection, teacher-scholars of "the long eighteenth century," a Eurocentric time frame from about 1680 to 1832, consider what teaching... Lees meer

Hemispheres and Stratospheres

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Recognizing distance as a central concern of the Enlightenment, this volume offers eight essays on distance in art and literature; on cultural transmi... Lees meer

Hemispheres and Stratospheres

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Recognizing distance as a central concern of the Enlightenment, this volume offers eight essays on distance in art and literature; on cultural transmi... Lees meer

Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• In this timely collection, teacher-scholars of "the long eighteenth century," a Eurocentric time frame from about 1680 to 1832, consider what teaching... Lees meer

Disputed Titles

Natasha Tessone

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Disputed Titles: Ireland, Scotland, and the Novel of Inheritance, 1798-1832 argues for the centrality of inheritance--often impeded, disrupted inherit... Lees meer

Narrative Mourning

Kathleen M Oliver

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Narrative Mourning explores death and its relics as they appear within the confines of the eighteenth-century British novel. It argues that the cultur... Lees meer

Intelligent Souls?

Samara Anne Cahill

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. Cahill explores two overlapping strands of thinking about women ... Lees meer