18th Century Literature

The first essay collection devoted to Thomas Holcroft's life and work, this volume is a reassessment of his contributions to a remarkable range of literary genres-drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography and political philosophy. The contributors situate Holcroft's self-fashioning as a member of London..

The first essay collection devoted to Thomas Holcroft's life and work, this volume is a reassessment of his contributions to a remarkable range of literary genres-drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography and political philosophy. The contributors situate Holcroft's self-fashioning as a member of London..

Reassessing the long-accepted division between religion and enlightenment, Ana Acosta here traces a tissue of readings and adaptations of Genesis and Scriptural language from Milton through Rousseau to Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Acosta's interdisciplinary approach places these writers in the ..

Posing new questions about realism and the creative power of narratives, Mucignat offers fresh readings of novels by Goethe, Jane Austen, Alessandro Manzoni, Stendahl, Charles Dickens and Gustave Flaubert, to examine the links between the nineteenth-century novel's interest in creating life-like wor..

Reason and Religion in Clarissa..

Tonya J. Moutray argues that the politico-religious crises initiated by the French Revolution inspired a range of British writers to reassess the historic and contemporary significance of Catholics nuns. Framed by nuns' personal and collective narratives of displacement from the Continent and settle..

This volume explores the authors of fictional literature who contributed alongside pamphleteers, politicians, and philosophers to the establishment of this new political arena, filled with sometimes vague, yet insisting notions of happiness and rights...

Surveying the literary and cultural landscapes of the long eighteenth century, this collection examines the many locales that shaped Britons’ affiliations and identities. Essays on individual authors, a variety of literary genres, and diverse cultural practices, demonstrate how representations of pl..

Surveying the literary and cultural landscapes of the long eighteenth century, this collection examines the many locales that shaped Britons’ affiliations and identities. Essays on individual authors, a variety of literary genres, and diverse cultural practices, demonstrate how representations of pl..

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1780, originally published in 1981, considers poetry written between 1660 and 1780. The author focuses on descriptions of genres and their formal elements and traces the broader patterns of literary and historical change running through the period...

In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films, Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Her book will be of interest to specialists in Restoration dra..

In this innovative study, the author carves out a new field, a sociology of literature in which he offers insightful commentary about the nexus of literature and society. Calling on history, sociology, and psychology as well as literature as points of reference, Allan Pasco examines the conceptual ..