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Eve Tavor Bannet
The Minerva Press Under William Lane

During the Minerva Press's heyday, founder William Lane published in an extraordinary range of genres. Following the original organizational taxonomy that Lane used in his own promotional materials, Eve T…

lieferbar ab 30.6.2026.

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Aphra Behn,
Plays 1676-1678: Volume 2, Plays 1676-1678

Aphra Behn's career in the Restoration theatre extended over nearly two full decades, and encompassed a remarkable generic range and diversity. The plays in this volume, published and performed between 16…

lieferbar ab 19.3.2026.

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Essaka Joshua
Disability and the Gothic

Disability is central to the Gothic imagination. Few accounts of Gothic literature, however, interpret this genre with attention to experiences of disability, or to the socially determined aspects of disa…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Joseph Taylor
Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages

"Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages offers a literary history of the North-South divide, examining the complexities of the relationship - imaginative, material, and political - between N…

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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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Scott Hess
Landscapes of Genius and the Transatlantic Origins of Environmentalism

During the nineteenth century, the idea of 'genius' became associated with natural landscapes on both sides of the Atlantic. Scott D. Hess explores how those associations defined the modern significance o…

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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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Percy Shelley for Our Times

Two centuries after Percy Shelley's death, his writings continue to resonate in remarkable ways. Shelley addressed climate change, women's liberation, nonbinary gender, and political protest, while speaki…

lieferbar ab 12.2.2026.

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Sarah Green
Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence

Can sexual restraint be good for you? Many Victorians thought so. This book explores the surprisingly positive construction of sexual restraint in an unlikely place: late nineteenth-century Decadence. Rea…

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The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945

This Companion presents an authoritative study of British utopian literature and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Written by leading scholars, it offers a wide-ranging account of utopi…

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The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945

This Companion presents an authoritative study of British utopian literature and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Written by leading scholars, it offers a wide-ranging account of utopi…

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Paul Joseph Zajac
Emotion and the Self in English Renaissance Literature

This book offers the first full-length study of early modern contentment, the emotional and ethical principle that became the gold standard of English Protestant psychology and an abiding concern of Engli…

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Olivia Ferguson
Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel

What was caricature to novelists in the Romantic period? Why does Jane Austen call Mr Dashwood's wife 'a strong caricature of himself'? Why does Mary Shelley describe the body of Frankenstein's creature a…

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