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Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi
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$95.00
ISBN: 9781487503512
Pub Date: February 2024
This book explores the tense relationship between opera and tragedy – often described as antithetical forms of theatre – from the 1630s to the 1780s.
The Smallpox Report
Vaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative
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$75.00
ISBN: 9781487546595
Pub Date: April 2023
The Smallpox Report explores the Romantic-era medical and literary narratives that made vaccination plausible, available, and desirable.
In Common Things
Commerce, Culture, and Ecology in British Romantic Literature
Price:
$65.00
ISBN: 9781487543488
Pub Date: April 2022
In Common Things explores the implacable agency of common substances in the life and literature of the Romantic period.
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray
Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres
Price:
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487527747
Pub Date: February 2022
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray reflects on print and paper culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, crafting a new approach to British visual culture.
Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil
Price:
$63.00
ISBN: 9781487529079
Pub Date: December 2021
Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil explores literary representations of evil, pursuing the points of intersection between aesthetics and morality.
Casanova in the Enlightenment
From the Margins to the Centre
Price:
$66.00
ISBN: 9781487506643
Pub Date: December 2020
This book interrogates the enduring and controversial legend of Casanova, from a seducer of women to a man of science and key participant in the Enlightenment.
The Protestant Whore
Courtesan Narrative and Religious Controversy in England, 1680-1750
Price:
$42.95
ISBN: 9781487526085
Pub Date: August 2020
The Protestant Whore reveals the recurring connection between sexual impropriety and religious heterodoxy in Restoration thought, and Nell Gwyn, writ large as the nation's Protestant Whore, is shown to be a significant figure of sexual, political, and religious controversy.
Clandestine Philosophy
New Studies on Subversive Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe, 1620–1823
Price:
$100.00
ISBN: 9781487504618
Pub Date: February 2020
Clandestine Philosophy is the first work in English entirely focused on the philosophical clandestine manuscripts that preceded and accompanied the birth of the Enlightenment.
Private Interests
Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791
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$36.95
ISBN: 9781487525446
Pub Date: November 2019
This study undertakes a new definition of the 18th-century novel’s investment in visual culture, tracing the relationship between the development of the novel and that of the portrait, particularly as represented in the novel itself.
Disastrous Subjectivities
Romaniticism, Modernity, and the Real
Price:
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487506148
Pub Date: September 2019
Drawing on the theories of Kant and Lacan, this book reveals how modernity's characteristic stance produces an infinitely demanding ethics and a traumatic sublime.
Romantic Revelations
Visions of Post-Apocalyptic Life and Hope in the Anthropocene
Price:
$74.00
ISBN: 9781487504502
Pub Date: September 2019
Romantic Revelations argues that Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, John Clare, and Jane Austen sketch out a post-apocalyptic world that is paradoxically the vision that offers us hope. Washington contends that these authors craft an optimistic vision of the future that leads to a new politics.
Imagining Religious Toleration
A Literary History of an Idea, 1600–1830
Price:
$85.00
ISBN: 9781487501792
Pub Date: August 2019
Imagining Religious Toleration is a contributed volume that examines how literary modes were used to influence cultural understandings of tolerance and coexistence over the course of two hundred years.
Novel Cleopatras
Romance Historiography and the Dido Tradition in English Fiction, 1688–1785
Price:
$85.00
ISBN: 9781442647145
Pub Date: April 2019
Advocating a revised history of the eighteenth-century novel, Novel Cleopatras showcases the novel’s origins in ancient mythology, its relation to epic narrative, and its connection to neoclassical print culture.
Curious Encounters
Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
Price:
$85.00
ISBN: 9781487503673
Pub Date: February 2019
Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Voyagers from Greenland to the Ottoman empire crossed paths with French, British, Polynesian, and Spanish travelers across the world, trading objects and knowledge for diverse ends.
The Savage and Modern Self
North American Indians in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
Price:
$82.00
ISBN: 9781487503444
Pub Date: May 2018
The Savage and Modern Self examines the representation of North American "Indians" in novels, poetry, plays, and material culture from eighteenth-century Britain.
Charlotte Lennox
An Independent Mind
Price:
$54.00
ISBN: 9781442626232
Pub Date: April 2018
Charlotte Lennox (c. 1729–1804) was an eighteenth-century English novelist whose most celebrated work, The Female Quixote (1752), is just one of eighteen works spanning a forty-three year career. Susan Carlile’s critical biography of Lennox focuses on her role as the central figure in the professionalization of authorship in England.

Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487503512
Pub Date: February 2024
This book explores the tense relationship between opera and tragedy – often described as antithetical forms of theatre – from the 1630s to the 1780s.
The Smallpox Report
Vaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487546595
Pub Date: April 2023
The Smallpox Report explores the Romantic-era medical and literary narratives that made vaccination plausible, available, and desirable.
In Common Things
Commerce, Culture, and Ecology in British Romantic Literature
$65.00
ISBN: 9781487543488
Pub Date: April 2022
In Common Things explores the implacable agency of common substances in the life and literature of the Romantic period.
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray
Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487527747
Pub Date: February 2022
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray reflects on print and paper culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, crafting a new approach to British visual culture.
Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil
$63.00
ISBN: 9781487529079
Pub Date: December 2021
Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil explores literary representations of evil, pursuing the points of intersection between aesthetics and morality.
Casanova in the Enlightenment
From the Margins to the Centre
$66.00
ISBN: 9781487506643
Pub Date: December 2020
This book interrogates the enduring and controversial legend of Casanova, from a seducer of women to a man of science and key participant in the Enlightenment.
The Protestant Whore
Courtesan Narrative and Religious Controversy in England, 1680-1750
$42.95
ISBN: 9781487526085
Pub Date: August 2020
The Protestant Whore reveals the recurring connection between sexual impropriety and religious heterodoxy in Restoration thought, and Nell Gwyn, writ large as the nation's Protestant Whore, is shown to be a significant figure of sexual, political, and religious controversy.
Clandestine Philosophy
New Studies on Subversive Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe, 1620–1823
$100.00
ISBN: 9781487504618
Pub Date: February 2020
Clandestine Philosophy is the first work in English entirely focused on the philosophical clandestine manuscripts that preceded and accompanied the birth of the Enlightenment.
Private Interests
Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791
$36.95
ISBN: 9781487525446
Pub Date: November 2019
This study undertakes a new definition of the 18th-century novel’s investment in visual culture, tracing the relationship between the development of the novel and that of the portrait, particularly as represented in the novel itself.
Disastrous Subjectivities
Romaniticism, Modernity, and the Real
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487506148
Pub Date: September 2019
Drawing on the theories of Kant and Lacan, this book reveals how modernity's characteristic stance produces an infinitely demanding ethics and a traumatic sublime.
Romantic Revelations
Visions of Post-Apocalyptic Life and Hope in the Anthropocene
$74.00
ISBN: 9781487504502
Pub Date: September 2019
Romantic Revelations argues that Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, John Clare, and Jane Austen sketch out a post-apocalyptic world that is paradoxically the vision that offers us hope. Washington contends that these authors craft an optimistic vision of the future that leads to a new politics.
Imagining Religious Toleration
A Literary History of an Idea, 1600–1830
$85.00
ISBN: 9781487501792
Pub Date: August 2019
Imagining Religious Toleration is a contributed volume that examines how literary modes were used to influence cultural understandings of tolerance and coexistence over the course of two hundred years.
Novel Cleopatras
Romance Historiography and the Dido Tradition in English Fiction, 1688–1785
$85.00
ISBN: 9781442647145
Pub Date: April 2019
Advocating a revised history of the eighteenth-century novel, Novel Cleopatras showcases the novel’s origins in ancient mythology, its relation to epic narrative, and its connection to neoclassical print culture.
Curious Encounters
Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
$85.00
ISBN: 9781487503673
Pub Date: February 2019
The Savage and Modern Self
North American Indians in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
$82.00
ISBN: 9781487503444
Pub Date: May 2018
The Savage and Modern Self examines the representation of North American "Indians" in novels, poetry, plays, and material culture from eighteenth-century Britain.
Charlotte Lennox
An Independent Mind
$54.00
ISBN: 9781442626232
Pub Date: April 2018
Charlotte Lennox (c. 1729–1804) was an eighteenth-century English novelist whose most celebrated work, The Female Quixote (1752), is just one of eighteen works spanning a forty-three year career. Susan Carlile’s critical biography of Lennox focuses on her role as the central figure in the professionalization of authorship in England.