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

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

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

'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

Fictive Domains

Judith Broome

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• The focus of Fictive Domains is the period 1717-1770, during which nostalgia was just beginning to emerge as a cultural concept. Using psychoanalytic,... 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

Engendering Legitimacy

Susan Paterson Glover

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Engendering Legitimacy is a study of the intersecting of law, land, property, and gender in the prose fiction of Mary Davys, Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywo... 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

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

Gothic Masculinity

Ellen Brinks

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Cultural and individual fantasies of masculinity enter troubling terrain in gothic tales of British and German Romanticism. In the interiority of drea... 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

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

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

Fair Philosopher

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Fair Philosopher , the first sustained scholarly study of The Female Spectator , brings together an impressive collection of established and upcoming ... 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

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

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

Enlightenment and Emancipation

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• 'Enlightenment' and 'Emancipation' as separate issues have received much critical attention, but the complicated interaction of these two great shapin... Lees meer

Scottish Men of Letters and the New Public Sphere, 1802-1834

Barton Swaim

• Hardcover | Engels | Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Why were Scottish writers able to dominate the field of periodical literature throughout the nineteenth-century? Barton Swaim's Scottish Men of Letter... 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

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

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