Part of a series showcasing scholarship in British literature and history from the Restoration to the early Romantic era, this volume explores depictions of prisons, prisoners and police in the poetry
In the first full-length study of Christopher Smarta€?s translations and the place and function of translation in Smarta€?s poetry, Rosalind Powell proposes a new approach to understanding the relatio
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 s
Between 1660 and 1820, Great Britain experienced significant structural transformations in class, politics, economy, print, and writing that produced new and varied spaces and with them, new and recon
From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, businessmen, travel writers, and philosophers brooded
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 "long 18th century" is the period under consideration. Editors Gottlieb (English, Oregon State U.) and Shields (English, U. of Washington), who are also contributors, introduce the broad themes of
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 g
In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term a€?slaverya€? to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Literary repre
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 poe
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
