How do the stories we tell about money shape our economies? Beginning in the late
eighteenth century, as constant growth became the economic norm throughout Europe …

Jane Austen's ironic reference to'the trash with which the press now groans' is only one of
innumerable Romantic complaints about fiction's newly overwhelming presence. This book …

Francesca Saggini introduces this collection of essays by leading scholars in Burney studies
and provides an interdisciplinary critical consideration of the relationship of one of the major …

The historiography on shopping in the period between circa 1650–1820 occupies a curious
intermediary position with regards to governance and regulation. Research and debates on …

Most gothic scholarship argues that London did not serve as a setting for gothic fiction until
the Victorian era. However, as this essay demonstrates, Frances Burney's Cecilia (1782) …

The essay overviews Frances Burney's life, work, and criticism from contemporary reviews to
current scholarship. Biography provides basic details to situate the author relative to her …

Abstract Alicia Kerfoot explores Frances Burney's depiction of the needle arts in her court
journals and letters and in her novels. She looks at the way that Burney uses needlework …

Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1747–48) explores the social geographies of London
neighbourhoods, contrasting the characteristics of genteel and commercial regions yet …