Writing the Americas in Enlightenment Spain

Thomas C Neal

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• How did literary discourse about empire contribute to discussions about the implications of modernity and progress in eighteenth-century Spain? Writin... Lees meer

Louis Sébastien Mercier

Michael J Mulryan

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• French playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revo... Lees meer

Anna Letitia Barbauld

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the first collection of essays on poet and public intellectual Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825). By intern... Lees meer

Revealing Bodies

Erin M Goss

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Revealing Bodies turns to the eighteenth century to ask a question with continuing relevance: what kinds of knowledge condition our understanding of o... Lees meer

The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790-1814

Morgan Rooney

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• This study examines how debates about history during the French Revolution informed and changed the nature of the British novel between 1790 and 1814.... Lees meer

Enlightenment in Ruins

Michael Griffin

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) moved between the genres and geographies of enlightenment writing with considerable dexterity. As a consequence he has be... Lees meer

Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy

Peggy Thompson

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy examines the extraordinary focus on coy women in late seventeenth-century English comedy. Plays by Etherege, W... Lees meer

Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment

Yaël Schlick

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Taking the Enlightenment and the feminist tradition to which it gave rise as its historical and philosophical coordinates, Feminism and the Politics o... Lees meer

John Galt

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• This volume offers a revaluation of the work of Romantic-era Scottish writer John Galt. Galt traveled throughout the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds... Lees meer

Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered beginswith the brute fact that poetry jostledup alongside novels in the bookstallsof ... Lees meer

Intelligent Souls?

Samara Anne Cahill

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. Cahill explores two overlapping strands of thinking about women ... Lees meer

Disputed Titles

Natasha Tessone

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Disputed Titles: Ireland, Scotland, and the Novel of Inheritance, 1798-1832 argues for the centrality of inheritance--often impeded, disrupted inherit... Lees meer

Women and Music in the Age of Austen

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and ... Lees meer

Jane Austen and Comedy

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Jane Austen and Comedy takes for granted two related notions. First, Jane Austen's books are funny; they induce laughter, and that laughter is worth a... Lees meer

Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• In this timely collection, teacher-scholars of "the long eighteenth century," a Eurocentric time frame from about 1680 to 1832, consider what teaching... Lees meer

Effeminate Years

Declan Kavanagh

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain investigates the gendered, eroticized, and xenophobic ways in... Lees meer

Poetic Sisters

Deborah Kennedy

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• In Poetic Sisters, Deborah Kennedy explores the personal and literary connections among five early eighteenth-century women poets: Anne Finch, Countes... Lees meer

The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century explores disabled people who lived in the eighteenth century. The first four essays consider philosop... Lees meer

Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• This groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit o... Lees meer

Political Affairs of the Heart

Linda Van Netten Blimke

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteenth-... Lees meer

Romantic Automata

• Paperback | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• For most of the eighteenth century, automata were deemed a celebration of human ingenuity, feats of science and reason. Among the Romantics, however, ... Lees meer

The Novel Stage

Marcie Frank

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• 2020 Choice ​ Outstanding Academic Title Marcie Frank's study traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage... Lees meer

Enlightenment in Ruins

Michael Griffin

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) moved between the genres and geographies of enlightenment writing with considerable dexterity. As a consequence he has be... Lees meer

Stael's Philosophy of the Passions

Tili Boon Cuillé, Karyna Szmurlo

• Hardcover | Engels | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Sensibility, or the capacity to feel, played a vital role in philosophical reflection about the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts in... Lees meer