This is a cultural guide to the city of Berlin. It is designed to offer a more comprehensive survey than a standard tourist guidebook. While there is a chapter on classic things to do in the city, oth
The aim of this series is to provide accessible and informative introductions to the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years.
"This volume compiles and annotates for the first time the complete correspondence of the eighteenth-century British author Charlotte Lennox, best known for her novel The Female Quixote. Lennox corres
The first novel to be written for serial publication by a major female author, Sophia follows the story of two siblings, the virtuous and well-read eponymous heroine and her flighty and coquettish sis
A collection of 18th- and early 19th-century primary texts and images that represent various facets of the cross-cultural interaction between India and Britain. The anthology suggests that for a brief
This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. It examines in particular the storming and subsequent fall of the Bastil
