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Modern Antiques

The Material Past in England, 1660–1780

by Barrett Kalter
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011

The recovery and reinvention of the past were fundamental to the conception of the modern in England during the long eighteenth century. Scholars then forged connections between linear time and empirical evidence that transformed historical consciousness. Chronologers, textual critics, and antiquaries...
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by Benjamin Kim
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013

Wordsworth, Hemans, and Politics, 1800–1830: Romantic Crises is a study of the political lives of William Wordsworth and Felicia Hemans between 1800 and 1830. Tracing trajectories from the first decade of the nineteenth century to the meeting of the two authors in 1830, Wordsworth, Hemans, and Politicsargues...
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John Galt

Observations and Conjectures on Literature, History, and Society

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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012

This volume offers a revaluation of the work of Romantic-era Scottish writer John Galt. Galt traveled throughout the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds and founded the Canadian city of Guelph while remaining in touch with local cultures and politics in Scotland and England. He wrote fiction, drama,...
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Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium

The Ends of Spanish Identity

by Jessica A. Folkart
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014

Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity examines how diverse manifestations of otherness coalesce in the cultural response to shifting perceptions of identity in Spain as well as the broader context of globalization at the turn of the millennium. Engaging issues...
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by Jennifer Golightly
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

This book explores the ways in which five female radical novelists of the 1790s—Elizabeth Inchbald, Eliza Fenwick, Mary Hays, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Wollstonecraft—attempt to use the components of private life to work toward widespread social reform. These writers depict the conjugal family...
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Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy

Women's Desire, Deception, and Agency

by Peggy Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011

Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy examines the extraordinary focus on coy women in late seventeenth-century English comedy. Plays by Etherege, Wycherley, Dryden, Behn, Shadwell, Congreve, Trotter, Southerne, Vanbrugh, and Pix—as well as much modern scholarship about them—taint almost all...
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The Matrimonial Trap

Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage

by Laura E. Thomason
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013

Mary Delany’s phrase “the matrimonial trap” illuminates the apprehension with which genteel women of the eighteenth century viewed marriage. These women were generally required to marry in order to secure their futures, yet hindered from freely choosing a husband. They faced marriage anxiously...
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Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change

Essays in Honor of Maryellen Bieder

by Jennifer Smith, Akiko Tsuchiya, Christine Arkinstall
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018

This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and simultaneously honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly contribution to the field. The essays are innovative in their consideration of lesser-known women...
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Revealing Bodies

Anatomy, Allegory, and the Grounds of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century

by Erin M. Goss
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012

Revealing Bodies turns to the eighteenth century to ask a question with continuing relevance: what kinds of knowledge condition our understanding of our own bodies? Focusing on the tension between particularity and generality that inheres in intellectual discourse about the body, Revealing Bodies...
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The Ladies of Llangollen

Desire, Indeterminacy, and the Legacies of Criticism

by Fiona Brideoake
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017

The Ladies of Llangollen is the first book length critical study of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, whose 1778 elopement and five decades of “retirement” turned them into eighteenth century celebrities and pivotal figures in the historiography of female same-sex desire. Debates within...
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by Jody Allen Randolph
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013

In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph providesthe fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women’s writing. Eavan Boland’s achievement in changing the map of Irish poetry is tracked and analyzed from...
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Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation

Blackness, Afro-Cuban Culture, and Mestizaje in the Prose and Poetry of Nicolás Guillén

by Miguel Arnedo-Gómez
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016

The Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén has traditionally been considered a poet of mestizaje, a term that, whilst denoting racial mixture, also refers to a homogenizing nationalist discourse that proclaims the harmonious nature of Cuban identity. Yet, many aspects of Guillén’s work enhance black Cuban...
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Figures of Memory

From the Muses to Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics

by Zsolt Komaromy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

Zsolt Komáromy’s Figures of Memory: From the Muses to Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics effects a rapprochement between memory studies and eighteenth-century British aesthetics. It argues that the assessment of memory in the history of aesthetics and criticism has been determined by the ideological...
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Descendants of Waverley

Romancing History in Contemporary Historical Fiction

by Martha F. Bowden
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016

Descendants of Waverley examines contemporary novelists’ combination of historical authority and narrative art to create authentic and accessible depictions of the past. This technique, the “romance of history,” challenges conventional theories that the novel as a genre erased the romance. Individual...
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