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        The Smallpox Report

        The Smallpox Report

        Vaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative

        by Fuson Wang

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        $75.00

        ISBN: 9781487546595

        Pub Date: May 2023

        The Smallpox Report explores the Romantic-era medical and literary narratives that made vaccination plausible, available, and desirable.

        In Common Things

        In Common Things

        Commerce, Culture, and Ecology in British Romantic Literature

        by Matthew Rowney

        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

        Media Critique in the Age of Gillray

        Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres

        by Joseph Monteyne

        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

        Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil

        by Taran Kang

        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

        Casanova in the Enlightenment

        From the Margins to the Centre

        Edited by Malina Stefanovska

        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

        The Protestant Whore

        Courtesan Narrative and Religious Controversy in England, 1680-1750

        by Alison Conway

        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

        Clandestine Philosophy

        New Studies on Subversive Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe, 1620–1823

        Edited by Gianni Paganini, Margaret C. Jacob and John Christian Laursen

        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

        Private Interests

        Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791

        by Alison Conway

        Price:

        $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

        Disastrous Subjectivities

        Romaniticism, Modernity, and the Real

        by David Collings

        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

        Romantic Revelations

        Visions of Post-Apocalyptic Life and Hope in the Anthropocene

        by Chris Washington

        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

        Imagining Religious Toleration

        A Literary History of an Idea, 1600–1830

        Edited by Alison Conway and David Alvarez

        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

        Novel Cleopatras

        Romance Historiography and the Dido Tradition in English Fiction, 1688–1785

        by Nicole Horejsi

        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

        Curious Encounters

        Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century

        Edited by Adriana Craciun and Mary Terrall

        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

        The Savage and Modern Self

        North American Indians in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture

        by Robbie Richardson

        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

        Charlotte Lennox

        An Independent Mind

        by Susan Carlile

        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.

        Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850

        Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850

        Edited by Daniel O'Quinn and Alexis Tadie

        Price:

        $101.00

        ISBN: 9781487500320

        Pub Date: January 2018

        Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850 is a collection of essays that charts important developments in the study of sport in the eighteenth century.

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