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eighteenth-century studies Sensitive Witnesses

Death and the Body in the EighteenthCentury Novel

Feminist Materialism in the British Enlightenment Kristin M. Girten Sensitive Witnesses explores the feminist materialist practice of sensitive witnessing, establishing an alternate history of the emergence of the scientific method in the 18th century. Girten persuasively argues that our understanding of Enlightenment thought must take into account these sensitive witnesses' visions of an alternative scientific method informed by profound closeness with the natural world.

Stanford University Press February 2024 246pp 9781503633032 £58.00 HB now £40.60

Jolene Zigarovich

Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period’s rising funeral and mourning culture, as well as the increasing commodification of death and mourning typically associated with nineteenthcentury practices. Drawing on a variety of hiastorical discourses, the book contributes to a fuller understanding of the history of death in the Enlightenment and its narrative transformation.

University of Pennsylvania Press January 2023 43 b&w hts. 280pp 9781512823776 £58.00 HB now £40.60

Unfelt

Literary Authority

The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment James Noggle Unfelt offers a new account of feeling during the British Enlightenment, finding that the passions and sentiments long considered as preoccupations of the era depend on a potent insensibility, the secret emergence of pronounced emotions that only become apparent with time.

Surveying a range of affects including primary sensation, love and self-love, greed, happiness, and patriotic ardor, Noggle explores literary evocations of imperceptibility and unfeeling that pervade and support the period's understanding of sensibility.

Cornell University Press

An Eighteenth-Century Genealogy Claude Willan

This book is the cultural history of an idea which now seems so self-evident as barely to be worth stating: through writing imaginative literature, an author can accrue significant and lasting economic and cultural power. This state of affairs was not naturally occurring, but deliberately invented. This book tells the story of that invention.

Stanford University Press March 2023 328pp 9781503630864 £72.00 HB now £50.40

December 2023 3 charts 282pp 9781501770128 £24.99 PB now £17.49

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Quarters

The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution John Gilbert McCurdy Harry M. Ward American Revolution Round Table of Richmond Book Award When Americans declared independence in 1776, they cited King George III "for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us." In Quarters, John Gilbert McCurdy explores the social and political history behind charge, offering an authoritative account of the housing of British soldiers in America.

Cornell University Press December 2022 20 b&w hts., 3 maps 328pp 9781501768187 £24.99 PB now £17.49

The Invention of a Tradition

The Messianic Zionism of the Gaon of Vilna Immanuel Etkes Israeli scholar Immanuel Etkes explores how what he calls the "Rivlinian myth" took hold, and demonstrates that it has no basis in historical reality. Etkes argues that proponents of the Rivlinian myth seek to blur the distinction between Zionism as a modern national movement or a religious one—a distinction that underlies many of the central conflicts of contemporary Israeli politics.

Stanford University Press Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture October 2023 234pp 9781503634534 £58.00 HB now £40.60

The Counterhuman Imaginary The Ghost in the City

Earthquakes, Lapdogs, and Traveling Luo Ping and the Craft of Painting in Coinage in Eighteenth-Century Literature Eighteenth-Century China Laura Brown Michele Matteini Brown finds that within eighteenth-century British literature, the human cultural imaginary can be seen, equally, as a counterhuman imaginary—an alternative realm whose scope and terms exceed human understanding or order.

Cornell University Press November 2023 5 b&w hts. 162pp 9781501773242 £18.99 PB now £13.29

With his paintings, Luo Ping captured the pleasures and concerns of a changing world at the end of the Qing's "Prosperous Age." Matteini reveals how Ping and his contemporaries sought to reform ink painting, paving the way for further developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

University of Washington Press

Adrift on an Inland Sea

May 2023 68 color illus., 27 b&w illus., 2 maps 248pp 9780295750958 £58.00 HB now £40.60

Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands Hal Langfur From 1750 until Brazil won its independence in 1822, the Portuguese crown sought to extend imperial control over the colony's immense, sea-like interior.

This book measures Portugal's transatlantic projection of power against a particular obstacle: imperial information-gathering.

Langfur considers how misinformation destabilized European sovereignty in the Americas, making a major contribution to histories of empire.

Stanford University Press January 2023 456pp 9781503633964 £29.99 PB now £20.99

The Beautiful Soul

Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth Century Robert E. Norton For many eighteenth-century European philosophers and writers, the beautiful soul was a symbol of enlightened humanity, carrying with it the possibility that aesthetic beauty and moral goodness would be fused in a new, indivisible unity. Norton follows the fortunes of this cultural icon, exploring the reasons for both its initial popularity and its subsequent decline as a cultural ideal during the Enlightenment.

Cornell University Press October 2022 330pp 9781501768224 £29.99 PB now £20.99

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Alimentary Orientalism

Britain’s Literary Imagination and the Edible East Yin Yuan What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenthcentury Britain? Yuan reassesses the politics of Orientalist representation by examining the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things.

Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 June 2023 2 b&w, 1 color 282pp 9781684484669 £34.00 PB now £23.80

Designing Women

The Dressing Room in EighteenthCentury English Literature and Culture Tita Chico Chico argues that the dressing room became a powerful metaphor in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature. As a symbol of both progressive and retrograde versions of femininity, the dressing room trope redefines the gendered constitution of private spaces, and offers a corrective to our literary history of generic influence and development between satire and the novel.

July 2023 2 b&w 302pp 9781684484799 £34.00 PB now £23.80

Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 1

Politics, Religion, Economy, and Society in Britain Michael McKeon The Enlightenment has been blamed for some of the most deadly developments of modern life. McKeon's new book corrects this defective view by historicizing the Enlightenment - by showing that the Enlightenment has been abstracted from its history.

July 2023 256pp 9781684484713 £43.00 PB now £30.10

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Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 2

Literature, the Arts, and the Aesthetic in Britain Michael McKeon Enlightenment critics conceived the modern view that art and literature entails a double reflection: a reflection of the world, and a reflection on the process by which that reflection is accomplished. Instead “neoclassicism" and “Augustanism" have been falsely construed as involving a onedimensional imitation of classical texts.

July 2023 1 b&w illus. 268pp 9781684484751 £43.00 PB now £30.10

Louis Sébastien Mercier

Revolution and Reform in EighteenthCentury Paris Michael J. Mulryan French playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris. Mercier has been called the founder of modern urban discourse and this sensitive study returns him to his rightful place among Enlightenment thinkers.

Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 September 2023 6 b&w illus., 2 color illus. 272pp 9781684484874 £43.00 PB now £30.10

Reading Smell in EighteenthCentury Fiction Emily C. Friedman

While other intangibles of the human experience have been examined in the context of the eighteenth-century novel, scent has so far remained largely sidelined.

Reading Smell provides new insights into canonical works and also sheds new light on the history of the British novel.

Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 June 2023 3 color and 6 b&w images 210pp 9781684484805 £34.00 PB now £23.80

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Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now

Pedagogy as Ethical Engagement Edited by Kate Parker & Miriam L. Wallace In this timely collection, teacher-scholars of “the long eighteenth century,” consider what teaching means in this historical moment: one of attacks on education, a global contagion, and a reckoning with centuries of trauma experienced by Black, Indigenous, and immigrant peoples. Some essays offer practical models for teaching; others reframe familiar texts and topics through contemporary approaches.

Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 December 2023 9 color and 1 b&w illus. 196pp 9781684485031 £34.00 PB now £23.80

The Aesthetics of Kinship

Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century Heidi Schlipphacke The Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and the corresponding interior subject in the eighteenth century. By focusing on kinship constellations instead of “family plots” in seminal literary works of the period, this book presents an alternative view of the eighteenth-century literary social world and its concomitant ideologies.

Thomas Holcroft’s Revolutionary Drama Reception and Afterlives Amy Garnai

Arrested for treason in 1794 and released without trial, Holcroft was notorious in his own time, but today appears mainly as a supporting character in studies of 1790s literary activism. Thomas Holcroft’s Revolutionary Drama authoritatively reintroduces and reestablishes this central figure of the revolutionary decade by examining his life, plays, memoirs, and personal correspondence.

January 2023 7 color illus. 248pp 9781684484430 £32.00 PB now £22.40

Women and Music in the Age of Austen

Edited by Linda Zionkowski & Miriam F. Hart Highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect upon Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from musicology, literary studies, and gender studies challenges the conventional historical categories that marginalize women’s experience from Austen’s time.

January 2023 1 b&w illus., 5 color illus. 354pp 9781684484539 £36.00 PB now £25.20

Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 December 2023 8 b&w illus., 7 color illus., 1 table 272pp 9781684485154 £47.00 PB now £32.90

The Secret Life of Things

1650-1850

Animals, Objects, and It-Narratives in Eighteenth-Century England Edited by Mark Blackwell Enriching and complicating the history of fiction between Richardson and Fielding at mid-century and Austen at the turn of the century, this collection focuses on itnarratives, a once popular form largely forgotten by readers and critics alike, and advances important work on consumer culture and the theory of things.

May 2023 3 color illus., 6 b&w illus. 372pp 9781684484706 £29.99 PB now £20.99

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Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 28) Edited by Kevin L. Cope & Samara Anne Cahill Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenthcentury writing, thinking, and artistry.

Series: 1650-1850 April 2023 24 b&w, 3 tables 356pp 9781684484638 £143.00 HB now £100.10

Carrying All before Her

Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800 Chelsea Phillips 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. Deepening the fields of women's studies, as well as social and medical histories, Phillips reveals an untapped history whose relevance and impact persists today.

Series: Performing Celebrity January 2022 15 b&w images, 2 tables 304pp 9781644532485 £38.00 PB now £26.60

Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750–1850

Edited by Anaïs Pédron & Clare Siviter The first book to study and compare the concept of celebrity in France and Britain from 1750 to 1850 as the two countries transformed into the states we recognize today. Bringing together the fields of history, politics, literature, theater studies, and musicology, the volume employs a firmly interdisciplinary scope to explore an era marked by social, political, and cultural upheaval.

Series: Performing Celebrity July 2021 9 b&w illus. 336pp 9781644532133 £38.00 PB now £26.60

English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 Edited by Heather Ladd & Leslie Ritchie

The essays 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 anecdotes in theatre scholarship today.

Series: Performing Celebrity June 2022 6 b&w illus. 298pp 9781644532607 £35.00 PB now £24.50

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Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of Graphic Satire Amanda Lahikainen

This book examines the entwined and simultaneous rise of graphic satire and cultures of paper money in late eighteenthand early nineteenth-century Britain.

Lahikainen demonstrates several key ways that cultures attach value to printed paper, accepting it as social reality and institutional fact.

Series: Studies in Seventeenth- and EighteenthCentury Art and Culture August 2022 17 color images, 2 tables 234pp 9781644532683 £29.99 PB now £20.99

A Genealogy of the Gentleman Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century Mary Beth Harris

Harris shows how eighteenth-century women writers carved out a space for their literary authority not by overtly opposing their male critics and society’s patriarchal structure, but by rewriting the persona of the gentleman as a figure whose very desirability and appeal were dependent on women’s influence. This project considers the import of these women writers’ legacy on hegemonic standards of masculinity that persist to this day.

Series: EARLY MODERN FEMINISMS March 2024 1 b&w image 230pp 9781644533284 £38.00 PB now £26.60

Fictions of Pleasure

The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France Alistaire Tallent Out of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged over a dozen memoir novels of female libertines who eagerly take up sex work as a means of escape from the patriarchal control of fathers and husbands to pursue pleasure, wealth, and personal independence outside the private, domestic sphere.

Series: EARLY MODERN FEMINISMS December 2023 none 226pp 9781644533239 £41.00 PB now £28.70 COMBINEDACADEMIC.CO.UK/BSECS-2024/

Literature and the Arts

Interdisciplinary Essays in Memory of James Anderson Winn Edited by Anna Battigelli The ten essays explore the intermedial plenitude of eighteenth-century English culture, honoring the memory of James Anderson Winn, whose work demonstrated how seeing that interplay of the arts and literature was essential to a full understanding of Restoration and eighteenth-century English culture.

October 2023 6 color and 28 b&w illus. 244pp 9781644533116 £38.00 PB now £26.60

Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century

Edited by Jennifer Milam & Nicola Parsons This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experience occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century. This book explores questions that are implicated by the need to see ideas in painted, sculpted, illustrated, and designed forms. In doing so, it introduces new visual materials and novel conceptual models into traditional accounts of the intellectual history of the Enlightenment.

Series: Studies in Seventeenth- and EighteenthCentury Art and Culture January 2022 46 b&w images, 26 color images 240pp 9781644532331 £38.00 PB now £26.60

Anti-Absolutist Pamphlets and their Readers in Late Seventeenth-Century France Kathrina Ann LaPorta The first literary historical study to analyze the “war of words” unleashed in the pamphlets denouncing Louis XIV’s absolute monarchy between 1667 and 1715. This book investigates how pamphlet writers challenged the monarchy’s monopoly over the performance of sovereignty by contesting the very mechanisms through which the crown legitimized its authority at home and abroad.

Series: The Early Modern Exchange June 2021 1 b&w image 338pp 9781644532102 £42.00 PB now £29.40

The World of Elizabeth Inchbald

Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century Edited by Daniel J. Ennis & E. Joe Johnson This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821). Ranging from visual culture, theater history, literary analyses and to historical investigations, the essays not only present a fuller picture of cultural life in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century, but also reflect a range of disciplinary perspectives.

June 2022 23 b&w illus. 270pp 9781644532560 £42.00 PB now £29.40

Making Stars

Biography and Celebrity in EighteenthCentury Britain Edited by Nora Nachumi & Kristina Straub In bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in Making Stars interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Contributors to this volume present us a picture of eighteenthcentury celebrity that was mediated across multiple sites, demonstrating that eighteenth-century celebrity culture in Britain was more pervasive, diverse and, in many ways, more egalitarian, than previously supposed.

July 2022 54 b&w, 10 color images 256pp 9781644532645 £45.00 PB now £31.50

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Performative Polemic

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Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century Age, Gender, and Work Chantel Lavoie

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 novels, poetry, medical advice, criminal broadsides, and automaton exhibitions. The chapters encompass such rituals as breeching, learning to read and write, and going to school.

November 2023 5 color and 4 b&w images 240pp 9781644533192 £38.00 PB now £26.60