British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century: British Literature in the Eighteenth Century
About the Book Series
This series aims to promote original scholarship on the intersection of British literature and history in the long eighteenth century, from the Restoration through the first generation of the Romantic era. Both "literature" and "history" are broadly conceived. Literature might include not only canonical novels, poems, and plays but also essays, life-writing, and belles lettres of all sorts, by both major and minor authors. History might include not only traditional political and social history but also the history of the book, the history of science, the history of religion, the history of scholarship, and the history of sexuality, as well as broader questions of historiography and periodization. The series editors invite proposals for both monographs and collections taking a wide range of approaches. Contributions may be interdisciplinary but should be grounded in sound historical research. All manuscripts should be written so as to be accessible to a wide audience while also making lasting contributions to the field.
Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830: Hours of Folly?
1st Edition
By Marcus Tomalin
December 13, 2021
Although the broad topic of time and literature in the long eighteenth century has received focused attention from successive generations of literary critics, this book adopts a radically new approach to the subject. Taking inspiration from recent revisionist accounts of the horological practices ...
Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction
1st Edition
By Jakub Lipski
September 30, 2020
Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction focuses on the interrelationship between eighteenth-century theories of the novel and the art of painting – a subject which has not yet been undertaken in a book-length study. This volume argues that throughout the ...
Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Denney, Bruce Buchan, David Ellison, Karen Crawley
September 30, 2020
In this collection, the essays examine the critical role that judgments about noise and sound played in framing the meaning of civility in British discourse and literature during the long eighteenth century. The volume restores the sonic dimension to conversations about civil conduct by exploring ...
Bluestockings Now!: The Evolution of a Social Role
1st Edition
Edited
By Deborah Heller
December 12, 2019
Bringing together top specialists in the field, this edited volume challenges the theory that the eighteenth-century British intellectual women known as the Bluestockings were an isolated phenomenon spanning the period from the 1750s through the 1790s. On the contrary, the contributors suggest, the...
British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By Sharon Harrow
December 12, 2019
Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and a performance; and gaming organized itself around sporting culture. Examining the underexplored intersection of sport, ...
British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By Teresa Barnard
December 12, 2019
Highlighting the remarkable women who found ways around the constraints placed on their intellectual growth, this collection of essays shows how their persistence opened up attributes of potent female imagination, radical endeavour, literary vigour, and self-education that compares well with male ...
Christopher Smart's English Lyrics: Translation in the Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By Rosalind Powell
December 12, 2019
In the first full-length study of Christopher Smart’s translations and the place and function of translation in Smart’s poetry, Rosalind Powell proposes a new approach to understanding the relationship between Smart’s poetics and his practice. Drawing on translation theory from the early modern ...
Making Gender, Culture, and the Self in the Fiction of Samuel Richardson: The Novel Individual
1st Edition
By Bonnie Latimer
December 12, 2019
Proposing that Samuel Richardson's novels were crucial for the construction of female individuality in the mid-eighteenth century, Bonnie Latimer shows that Richardson's heroines are uniquely conceived as individuals who embody the agency and self-determination implied by that term. In addition to ...
Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films: In conversation with Stanley Cavell
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Kraft
December 12, 2019
In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films, Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Before there could be imagined remarriages of the sort Cavell...
The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830
1st Edition
By Marcus Tomalin
December 12, 2019
From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, businessmen, travel writers, and philosophers brooded about the merits and demerits of the French language. The decades under consideration encompass a ...
Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination
1st Edition
By Srividhya Swaminathan, Adam R. Beach
October 19, 2016
In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term ’slavery’ to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Literary representations of slavery encompassed tales of Barbary captivity, the ’exotic’ slaving practices of the ...
Graveyard Poetry: Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Condition
1st Edition
By Eric Parisot
October 10, 2016
While immensely popular in the eighteenth century, current critical wisdom regards graveyard poetry as a short-lived fad with little lasting merit. In the first book-length study of this important poetic mode, Eric Parisot suggests, to the contrary, that graveyard poetry is closely connected to the...