Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain: An Archaeology of Empire
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By Mita Choudhury
June 30, 2021
Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain: An Archaeology of Empire is a provocative intervention that extends considerably the parameters of on-going dialogues about British identity during the Enlightenment. Thoughtfully interdisciplinary and with an allegiance to the culture which literary ...
Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, 1720-1850
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By Richard Adelman, Catherine Packham
June 30, 2021
This edited collection, Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, aims to address the genealogy and formation of political economy as a knowledge project from 1720 to 1850. Through individual essays on both literary and political economic writers, this volume defines and ...
Before Crusoe: Defoe, Voice, and the Ministry
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By Penny Pritchard
September 30, 2020
Penny Pritchard is a Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature, and has taught at the University of Hertfordshire since completing her PhD in 2006. Both her doctoral thesis (entitled ‘Defoe, Rhetoric, and Nonconformity’) and MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies were undertaken at the University ...
Errors and Reconciliations: Marriage in the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding
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By Anaclara Castro-Santana
September 30, 2020
Henry Fielding is most well-known for his monumental novel Tom Jones. Though not necessarily common knowledge, Henry Fielding started his literary career as a dramatist and eventually transitioned to writing novels. Though vastly different in their approach and subject, there is a common thread in ...
On Declaring Love: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Jane Austen
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By Fred Parker
September 30, 2020
"What did she say? – Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does."This book explores the act of declaring love in works of literature written between the middle of the eighteenth century and the death of Jane Austen - and uncovers the uncertain boundaries of the self in the force-field of ...
Reimagining Society in 18th Century French Literature: Happiness and Human Rights
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By Jonas Ross Kjærgård
September 30, 2020
The French revolutionary shift from monarchical to popular sovereignty came clothed in a new political language, a significant part of which was a strange coupling of happiness and rights. In Old Regime ideology, Frenchmen were considered subjects who had no need of understanding why what was ...
The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship: Beyond Recovery
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By Robin Runia
September 30, 2020
There is an unfortunate argument being made that feminist scholarship of eighteenth-century literary studies has fulfilled its potential in academic circles. The Future of Eighteenth-Century Feminist Scholarship: Beyond Recovery shows us otherwise. Each of the essays in this volume reaffirms the ...
Wordsworth Before Coleridge: The Growth of the Poet’s Philosophical Mind, 1785-1797
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By Mark Bruhn
September 30, 2020
Drawing extensively upon archival resources and manuscript evidence, Wordsworth Before Coleridge rewrites the early history of Wordsworth’s intellectual development and thereby overturns a century-old consensus that derives his most important philosophical ideas from Coleridge. Beginning with ...
New Perspectives on Delarivier Manley and Eighteenth Century Literature: Power, Sex, and Text
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By Aleksondra Hultquist, Elizabeth Mathews
December 10, 2019
This first critical collection on Delarivier Manley revisits the most heated discussions, adds new perspectives in light of growing awareness of Manley’s multifaceted contributions to eighteenth-century literature, and demonstrates the wide range of thinking about her literary production and ...
Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Satire: �The Scope in Ev�ry Page�
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By Katherine Mannheimer
December 10, 2019
This study interprets eighteenth-century satire’s famous typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment’s "ocularcentric" epistemological paradigms, as well as to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly "visual" — a moment at which widespread ...
Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature
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By Jolene Zigarovich
December 10, 2019
This book discusses sex and death in the eighteenth-century, an era that among other forms produced the Gothic novel, commencing the prolific examination of the century’s shifting attitudes toward death and uncovering literary moments in which sexuality and death often conjoined. By bringing ...
Women and Gift Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Richardson, Burney, Austen
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By Linda Zionkowski
December 10, 2019
This book analyzes why the most influential novelists of the long eighteenth century centered their narratives on the theory and practice of gift exchange. Throughout this period, fundamental shifts in economic theories regarding the sources of individual and national wealth along with ...