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Gillian Russell
The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century

Often regarded as trivial and disposable, printed ephemera, such as tickets, playbills and handbills, was essential in the development of eighteenth-century culture. In this original study, richly illustr…

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Tita Chico
On Wonder

This is an Element about wonder as an object, as a feeling, as an invitation to study, and as a way of thinking in both literary and scientific texts of the long eighteenth century. Wonder is at the hea…

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Paul Hamilton
Orientation in European Romanticism

Exploring the Romantic period's experiments in individual and national self-consciousness, this essential comparative study of European literature, philosophy and politics makes striking connections and c…

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Small Things in the Eighteenth Century

Featuring tiny books, buttons, ceramic trinkets, toothpick cases, handkerchiefs, mugs, tea caddies, coins and much more, this interdisciplinary book explores how people in the eighteenth century interacte…

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John Havard
Late Romanticism and the End of Politics

In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, f…

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Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages

This collection makes a new, profound and far-reaching intervention into the rich yet little-explored terrain between Latin scholastic theory and vernacular literature. Written by a multidisciplinary team…

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Richard Meek
Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture

This is the first comprehensive study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing a deeply researched and interdisciplinary examination of its development in Anglophone literature and culture. It ar…

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Leith Davis
Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688-1820

This Element has three objectives. First, it highlights the diversity of the nature of Jacobitism in the long eighteenth century by drawing attention to multi-media representations of Jacobitism and also …

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Translation

The various dimensions of translation studies, too often studied independently, are here brought into conversation: Translation practice, including the various crafts employed by its practitioners; the sp…

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Hannah Doherty Hudson
Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era

Jane Austen's ironic reference to 'the trash with which the press now groans' is only one of innumerable Romantic complaints about fiction's newly overwhelming presence. This book draws on evidence from o…

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Tita Chico
On Wonder

This is an Element about wonder - as an object, as a feeling, as an invitation to study, and as a way of thinking in both literary and scientific texts of the long eighteenth century. Studying wonder in t…

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Harry R McCarthy
Boy Actors in Early Modern England

Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre provides a new approach to the study of early modern boy actors, offering a historical re-appraisal of these performers' physical sk…

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Eric Reid Lindstrom
Jane Austen and Other Minds

Jane Austen and Other Minds offers a lively reintroduction to all six of Austen's finished novels through an ambitious choice to pair analysis of her novelistic ordinary language - her style, conversation…

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Philip Shaw
Wordsworth After War

Providing new perspectives on Wordsworth's later poetry, Philip Shaw reveals how his work after the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars reflects poetic and political engagement with peace. This title is par…

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Jonathan P Lamb
How the World Became a Book in Shakespeare's England

Human beings build their worlds using metaphors. Just as computer technology has inaugurated a massive metaphorical transformation in the present era, in which we can 'reboot' social causes or 'program' h…

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Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England

This collection of essays by leading scholars of death and memory studies outlines the cultural, religious, epistemological, and political contexts for understanding how people in Renaissance England enga…

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Thomas Hardy,
Wessex Tales

"Hardy's first collection of short stories, Wessex Tales contains some of his most famous narratives. This edition provides an authoritative text and full scholarly apparatus, allowing the reader to …

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Humour in Verse

Originally published in 1937, this anthology of humorous poems for the younger reader supplements the more serious material found in school anthologies.

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Catherine Packham
Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy

Why was Wollstonecraft's landmark feminist work, the Vindication of the Rights of Woman, categorised as a work of political economy when it was first published? Taking this question as a starting point, M…

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Thinking of the Medieval

Revealing the profound influence of the Middle Ages on mid-twentieth-century thought and the influence of these intellectual endeavours on present-day politics, art, and history, this interdisciplinary co…

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