18th Century

Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century challenges the traditional ways that scholarship has approached sexuality, gender nonconformity, and sex (as well as its absence) in the long eighteenth century. Drawing from recent and...

Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century challenges the traditional ways that scholarship has approached sexuality, gender nonconformity, and sex (as well as its absence) in the long eighteenth century. Drawing from recent and...

In 1766, the Moroccan ambassador Ahmad ibn al-Mahdi al-Ghazzal embarked on an unprecedented visit to Spain during a time of eased tensions between the two countries. The sultan Sidi Muhammad ibn 'Abdallah wanted the return of Muslim prisoners and sacred...

Writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries-a period of vast economic change-recognized that the global trade in alcohol and tobacco promised a brighter financial future for England, even as overindulgence at home posed serious moral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853836384Author Professor J. R. WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint Profile Books LtdPublisher Profile Books Ltd

The cult of sensibility jangled the nerves of Europe in the mid-eighteenth century. It touched all literary genres and brought into prominence those qualities of tenderness, compassion, sympathy and irrational benevolence associated with women by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541440Author Linda L CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684482122Author Daniel GustafsonFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams)...

Volume 26 of 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era travels beyond the usual discussions of power, identity, and cultural production to visit the purlieus and provinces of Britain's literary empire. Bulging at its bindings...

The rise of celebrity stage actresses in the long eighteenth century created a class of women who worked in the public sphere while facing considerable scrutiny about their offstage lives. Such powerful celebrity women used the cultural and affective...

The Savage and Modern Self examines the representations of North American "Indians" in novels, poetry, plays, and material culture from eighteenth-century Britain. Author Robbie Richardson argues that depictions of "Indians" in British literature were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729400459Author D.F. EssarFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher Liverpool University PressWeight(grams) 280g

When the novel broke into cultural prominence in the eighteenth century, it became notorious for the gripping, immersive style of its narratives. In this book, Karin Kukkonen explores this phenomenon through the embodied style in Eliza Haywood's...

Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century explores how boyhood was constructed in different creative spaces that reflected the lived experience of young boys through the long eighteenth century-not simply in children's literature but in...

Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century explores how boyhood was constructed in different creative spaces that reflected the lived experience of young boys through the long eighteenth century-not simply in children's literature but in...

First published in 1968, The World of Pope's Satires is a stimulating and challenging book showing how the satires written by Pope during the 1730s were not only expressions of his own .poetic personality but were also responsive to the habits and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684480982Author Samara Anne CahillFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684483969Author Kristin M. GirtenFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684482528Author Kevin L. CopeFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams)...

Future History traces the ways that English and American writers oriented themselves along an East-West axis to fantasize their place in the world. The book builds on new transoceanic scholarship and recent calls to approach early American studies from a...

This important new collection explores representations of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers across a range of historical and literary works. While at one time transatlantic studies concentrated predominantly...

Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as "a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements,...

The essays in English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explore the theatrical anecdote's role in the construction of stage fame in England's emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing such...

The Revolutionary era was a period of radical change in France that dissolved traditional boundaries of privilege, and a time when creative experimentation flourished. As performance and theatrical language became an integral part of the French...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729401746Author Richard Gilbert KnappFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher Liverpool University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729401661Author Theodore BestermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher Liverpool University PressWeight(grams) 520g

The last of the great Enlightenment encyclopedias, Charles Joseph Panckoucke's Encyclopedie methodique was originally conceived as an innovative revision of the Encyclopedie and the Supplement. Arranged in a series of subject-specific dictionaries, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729400558Author Theodore BestermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher Liverpool University PressWeight(grams) 300g

Medievalism -the appropriation of elements of medieval culture - has a long history: every century since the sixteenth has remade the Middle Ages in its own image. But different generations look back to the medieval period for different reasons, and each...

The writer and aesthete William Beckford (1760-1844) was a fascinating embodiment of the sublime egotist. Because of his extravagance, fabulousness and enigmatic nature, biographers have alternately presented him as an object of fascination or dismissed...

Histoire des deux Indes, was arguably the first major example of a world history, exploring the ramifications of European colonialism from a global perspective. Frequently reprinted and translated into many languages, its readers included statesmen,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729400473Author Huguette CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher Liverpool University PressWeight(grams) 425g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729401135Author English ShowalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher Liverpool University PressWeight(grams) 340g

Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) defines sympathy as a series of shifts in perspective by which one sees from a different point of view. British and French novels published over the following century redefine sympathy through narrative...

Concerns about Haiti suffused the early American print public sphere from the outbreak of the revolution in 1791 until well after its conclusion in 1804. The gothic, sentimental, and sensationalist undertones of openly speculative periodical accounts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638040774Author Phil JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press

Although posterity has generally known Bernardin de Saint-Pierre for his bestselling Paul et Virginie, his output was encyclopaedic. Using new sources, this monograph explores the many facets of a celebrity writer in the Ancien Regime, the Revolution and...

Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's Epistolary Feminism: Fact, Fiction, and Voice argues that Riccoboni is among the most significant women writers of the French Enlightenment due to her "epistolary feminism". Locating its source in her first novel Lettres de...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638040811Author Richard J. JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press

First published in 1968, The World of Pope's Satires is a stimulating and challenging book showing how the satires written by Pope during the 1730s were not only expressions of his own .poetic personality but were also responsive to the habits and...