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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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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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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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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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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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Henry James,
The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, 1884-1888

The nine tales in this collection, published between 1884 and 1888, exemplify James' continuing interest in the art of short fiction. This first scholarly edition provides extensive annotations, a detaile…

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E K Myerson
The Desire for Syria in Medieval England

In June 1458, two boats were cornered by pirates off the coast of Malta. Their captain - Robert Sturmy - proved no match for the notorious Genoese freebooter Giuliano Gattilusio and was summarily killed b…

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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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Mary Going
The Eternal Wanderer

The Eternal Wanderer: Christian Negotiations in the Gothic Mode provides new ways of reading the Gothicisation of the Wandering Jew. It argues that early Gothic writing conjured iterations of this figure …

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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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The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry

The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry offers an authoritative and comprehensive engagement with poetries that range from some of the world's oldest to significant innovations of the twenty-first cent…

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Gary Wade
Seamus Heaney and Catholicism

Seamus Heaney and Catholicism makes extensive use of unpublished material to offer fresh insights into Heaney's complex engagement with Catholicism. Gary Wade explores how Catholicism operates in ways oth…

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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…

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Luisa Calè
The Book Unbound

How does our understanding of Romantic literature change when we shift the focus from bound books to unbound forms? Assumptions about the book as a bound object have isolated literature from overlapping m…

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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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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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Omaar Hena
British Black and Asian Poetry

This book examines a wide sweep of prominent Black and Asian British poets, from Linton Kwesi Johnson and Jean 'Binta' Breeze through David Dabydeen, Bernardine Evaristo, and Jason Allen-Paisant. Througho…

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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…

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Shakespeare Survey 75

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakes…

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