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

Studies in Ephemera

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• The book offers new perspectives on works that were central to the visual and literary culture of the Anglo-American world--ephemeral print--but which... 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

Stage Mothers

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Stage Mothers expands the discussion of eighteenth-century women's social and dramatic roles by demonstrating the complicated, contradictory, and cele... 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

The Global Wordsworth

Katherine Bergren

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• The Global Wordsworth charts the travels of William Wordsworth's poetry around the English-speaking world. But, as Katherine Bergren shows, Wordsworth... Lees meer

Poetic Sisters

Deborah Kennedy

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Poetic Sisters explores the personal and literary connections among five eighteenth-century women poets. Anchored in the work of Anne Finch, author of... Lees meer

Excitable Imaginations

Kathleen Lubey

• Paperback | 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

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

Stael's Philosophy of the Passions

Tili Boon Cuillé, Karyna Szmurlo

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• This volume examines the philosophical, political, and personal convictions that informed Staël's theory of the passions and the social and aesthetic ... 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

• Paperback | 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

Beyond Sense and Sensibility

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Drawing on philosophical thought from the eighteenth century as well as conceptual frameworks developed in the twenty-first century, the essays in Bey... Lees meer

Minds in Motion

Anne M Thell

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Minds in Motion argues that travel literature expedites individual engagements with epistemology because the genre forces authors to determine and dis... Lees meer

Fire on the Water

Lenora Warren

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurr... 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

Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• This important new collection explores representations of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers across a rang... Lees meer

Cultivating Peace

Melissa Schoenberger

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• During the decades following the English civil wars, British poets seeking to make sense of lingering political instabilities turned to Virgil's Georg... Lees meer

Developments in the Histories of Sexualities

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Developments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal,1600-1800 explores the oppositionscreated by the official exclusion ofbanned sex... Lees meer

Novel Bodies

Jason S Farr

• Paperback | 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

The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790-1814

Morgan Rooney

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Through an examination of a representative body of nonfiction prose from the French Revolution debate and a variety of subgenres of the novel from the... Lees meer

Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• This groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit o... Lees meer

Making Love

Paul Kelleher

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Making Love closely reexamines the literary history of sentimentalism in order to open up new ways of understanding the history of sexuality. Lees meer

The Limits of Familiarity

Lindsey Eckert

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• What did Wordsworth wear, and where did he walk? Who was Byron's new mistress, and how did his marriage fare? Answers--sometimes accurate, sometimes n... Lees meer