This groundbreaking study examines the vexed and unstable relations between the
eighteenth-century novel and the material world. Rather than exploring dress's …

A study of British imperialism's imaginative geography, exploring the pairing of India and the
Atlantic world from literature to colonial policyIn this lively book, Ashley Cohen weaves a …

Once celebrated as' the English Sappho,'Mary Robinson was a major figure in British
Romanticism. This volume offers comprehensive study of Robinson's achievement as a …

Stage Mothers explores the connections between motherhood and the theater both on and
off stage throughout the long eighteenth century. Although the realities of eighteenth-century …

Bringing together studies in theater history, print culture, and literature, this book offers a
new consideration of Romantic-period writing in Britain. Recovering a wide range of …

David Garrick, having achieved unprecedented fame in a world newly shaped and suffused
by the daily press, conducted his career from a perception that no predecessor had had …

This text explores the reception of the royal family during the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries, and its representation in fiction, poetry, and the popular press …

What, and when, is British Romanticism, if seen not in island isolation but cosmopolitan
integration with European Romantic literature, history and culture? The essays here range …

Motherhood inherently involves labor. The seemingly perennial notion that paid work
outside the home and motherhood are incompatible, however, grows out of specific cultural …

The amorous poetic exchange between Delia Crusca timentality of the Delia Cruscans,
however, is facetiou and Anna Matilda, the pseudonymous identities of Robert deliberately …