In Changing Hands, Peter J. Capuano sifts through Victorian literature and culture for
changes in the way the human body is imagined in the face of urgent questions about …

The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World Page 1 The Aboriginal Male in the
Enlightenment World Shino Konishi Number 8 The Body, Gender and Culture The A boriginal …

Smoothly blending performance theory, literary analysis, and historical insights, Cecilia
Feilla explores the mutually dependent discourses of feeling and politics and their impact on …

Across the eighteenth century in Britain, readers, writers, and theater-goers were fascinated
by women who dressed in men's clothing—from actresses on stage who showed their …

This book examines how reading is represented within the novels of the late eighteenth and
early nineteenth century. Contemporary accounts portrayed the female reader in particular …

Shortlisted for the 2021 BARS First Book Prize (British Association for Romantic Studies)​
The Printed Reader explores the transformative power of reading in the eighteenth century …

These studies have allowed a more complex image of the period to emerge, but the
corrective they bring to our reading of the century remains all too often piecemeal, focused …

Scent is both an essential and seemingly impossible-to-recover aspect of material culture.
Scent is one of our strongest ties to memory, yet to remember a smell without external stimuli …

Ellena, the heroine of Ann Radcliffe's The Italian (1797), is kidnapped to a convent to
prevent her marriage to Vivaldi, a young aristocrat. He finds her and plots a daring rescue …

In October 1726, newspapers began reporting a remarkable event. In the town of Godalming
in Surrey, a woman called Mary Toft had started to give birth to rabbits. Several leading …