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Political Affairs Of The Heart - Female Travel Writers, The Sentimental Travelogue, And Revolution, 1775-1800

by Linda Van Netten Blimke

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 Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteenth-century Britain, and posits its centrality to womenâ€™s engagement with national and gender politics.
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Limits Of Familiarity - Authorship And Romantic Readers

by Lindsey Eckert

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 Confessional poetry, romans a clef, personal essays, gossip columns, and more gave Romantic-era readers exceptional access to well-known authors. But how close was too close? In The Limits of Familiarity, Eckert argues that these questions influenced literary production in the Romantic period.
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Narrative Mourning - Death And Its Relics In The Eighteenth-Century British Novel

by Kathleen M. Oliver

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 Explores death and its relics as they appear within the confines of the eighteenth-century British novel. The book argues that the cultural disappearance of the dead/dying body and the introduction of consciousness as humanity's newfound soul found expression in fictional representations of the relic (object) or relict (person).
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Robinson Crusoe After 300 Years

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 Brings together eleven scholars who suggest new and unfamiliar ways of thinking about this most familiar of works, and who ask us to consider the enduring appeal of â€˜Crusoeâ€™, more recognisable today than ever before.
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Laurence Sterne'S A Sentimental Journey - A Legacy To The World

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 Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy continues to be as widely read and admired as upon its first appearance. This volume offers fresh perspectives on Sterne's novel that will appeal to students and critics alike.
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Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843

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 Explores representations of late seventeenth- to mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travellers. The volume highlights the resilience of women who ventured voluntarily and by force across the Atlantic - some seeking mobility, adventure, knowledge, wealth, and freedom, and others surviving subjugation, capture, and enslavement.
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Hemispheres And Stratospheres - The Idea And Experience Of Distance In The International Enlightenment

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 Recognising distance as a central concern of the Enlightenment, this volume offers eight essays on distance in art and literature; on cultural transmission and exchange over distance; and on distance as a topic in science, a theme in literature, and a central issue in modern research methods.
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Rewriting Crusoe - The Robinsonade Across Languages, Cultures, And Media

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 Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its persistently lively afterlife. This celebratory collection of tercentenary essays testifies to the book's endurance, analysing its literary, aesthetic, philosophical, and cultural implications in historical context.
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Lothario'S Corpse - Libertine Drama And The Long-Running Restoration, 1700-1832

by Daniel Gustafson

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 Unearths a performance history, on and off the stage, of Restoration libertine drama in Britain's eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Daniel Gustafson traces libertine dramaâ€™s persistent appeal for writers and performers wrestling with the powers of the emergent liberal subject and the tensions of that subject with sovereign absolutism.
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Imprisoned Traveler - Joseph Forsyth And Napoleon''S Italy

by Keith Crook

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 A fascinating portrait of a unique book, its context, and its author. Joseph Forsyth, travelling through an Italy plundered by Napoleon, was unjustly imprisoned in 1803 by the French as an enemy alien. Out of his arduous eleven-year â€œdetentionâ€ came his only book, Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an Excursion in Italy.
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Narrative Mourning - Death And Its Relics In The Eighteenth-Century British Novel

by Kathleen M. Oliver

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 Explores death and its relics as they appear within the confines of the eighteenth-century British novel. The book argues that the cultural disappearance of the dead/dying body and the introduction of consciousness as humanity's newfound soul found expression in fictional representations of the relic (object) or relict (person).
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Romantic Automata - Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms

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 A deep dread of puppets and the machinery that propels them surfaced in Romantic literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. This book is a collection of essays examining the rise of cultural suspicion of all imitations of homo sapiens and similar machinery, as witnessed in the literature and arts of the time.
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Beside The Bard - Scottish Lowland Poetry In The Age Of Burns

by George S. Christian

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 Argues that Scottish poetry in the age of Burns reclaims not a single past, dominated and overwritten by the unitary national language of an elite ruling class, but a past that conceptualizes the Scottish nation in terms of local self-identification, linguistic multiplicity, cultural and religious difference, and transnational affiliations.
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Novel Stage - Narrative Form From The Restoration To Jane Austen

by Marcie Frank

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 Traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, offering a dramatic new approach to the history of the English novel that examines how the collaboration of genres contributed to the novel's narrative form and to the modern organization of literature.
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Intelligent Souls? - Feminist Orientalism In Eighteenth-Century English Literature

by Samara Anne Cahill

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 Offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. Samara Cahill explores two overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam, which produce the phenomenon of â€œfeminist orientalismâ€.
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Cultivating Peace - The Virgilian Georgic In English, 1650-1750

by Melissa Schoenberger

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 The poets discussed in Cultivating Peace imagine states of peace and war to be fundamentally and materially linked. In distinct ways, they dismantle the dream of the golden age renewed, proposing instead that peace must be sustained by constant labour.
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Novel Bodies - Disability And Sexuality In Eighteenth-Century British Literature

by Jason S. Farr

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 Examines the significant role that disability plays in shaping the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century novelists represent disability and sexuality in flexible ways to reconfigure the political and social landscapes of eighteenth-century Britain.
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Fire On The Water - Sailors, Slaves, And Insurrection In Early American Literature, 1789-1886

by Lenora Warren

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 Tells the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors, whose experiences either inspired or found resonance within fiction.
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Community And Solitude - New Essays On Johnson’S Circle

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 This collection explores relationships between Samual Johnson and several of his main contemporariesâ€"James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances Burney, Robert Chambers, Oliver Goldsmith, Bennet Langton, Arthur Murphy, Richard Savage, Anna Seward, and Thomas Wartonâ€"and analyzes some of the literary productions emanating from the pressures within those relationships.
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Global Wordsworth - Romanticism Out Of Place

by Katherine Bergren

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 Examines Anglophone writers who repurposed William Wordsworth's poetry. By reading Wordsworth in dialogue with J. M. Coetzee, Lydia Maria Child, and Jamaica Kincaid, Katherine Bergren revitalizes our understanding of Wordsworth's career and its place in the canon.
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Printed Reader - Gender, Quixotism, And Textual Bodies In Eighteenth-Century Britain

by Amelia Dale

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 Explores the transformative power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how this was expressed in the fascination withÂ Don QuixoteÂ and in a proliferation of narratives about quixotic readers, readers who attempt to reproduce and embody their readings.
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Jane Austen And Comedy

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 In bringing together Austen and comedy, which are both often dismissed as superfluous or irrelevant to a contemporary world, this collection of essays directs attention to the ways we laugh, the ways that Austen may make us do so, and the ways that our laughter is conditioned by the form in which Austen writes: comedy.
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Thomas Holcroftâ€™S Revolutionary Drama - Reception And Afterlives

by Amy Garnai

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 A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality. This volume authoritatively reintroduces and reestablishes this central figure of the revolutionary decade by examining his life, plays, memoirs, and personal correspondence.
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Pure Planet - A Look At Air And Water Quality

by Heather Dilorenzo Williams

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