Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne: Reconsiderations of His Early Career
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By A. D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin
May 31, 2023
This is the first collection of essays since George Sherburn’s landmark monograph The Early Career of Alexander Pope (1934) to reconsider how the most important and influential poet of eighteenth-century Britain fashioned his early career. The volume covers Pope’s writings from across the reign of ...
Marie Jeanne Riccoboni’s Epistolary Feminism: Fact, Fiction, and Voice
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By Marijn S. Kaplan
May 31, 2023
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 Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757), between fact and ...
Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century
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By Anne Leah Greenfield
December 13, 2021
This essay collection examines one of the most fearsome, fascinating, and hotly-discussed topics of the long eighteenth century: masculinity compromised. During this timespan, there was hardly a literary or artistic genre that did not feature unmanning regularly and prominently: from harrowing ...
Moral Cupidity and Lettres de cachet in Diderot’s Writing
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By Jennifer Vanderheyden
June 30, 2021
This volume explores the influence of the lettre de cachet on both Diderot’s personal life and his works, beginning with an examination of Diderot’s experience as recipient of two such arrest warrants, followed by an analysis of his references to these warrants in three of his fictional works, Le ...
Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain: An Archaeology of Empire
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By Mita Choudhury
June 30, 2021
Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain: An Archaeology of Empire is a provocative intervention that extends considerably the parameters of on-going dialogues about British identity during the Enlightenment. Thoughtfully interdisciplinary and with an allegiance to the culture which literary ...
Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, 1720-1850
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Edited
By Richard Adelman, Catherine Packham
June 30, 2021
This edited collection, Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, aims to address the genealogy and formation of political economy as a knowledge project from 1720 to 1850. Through individual essays on both literary and political economic writers, this volume defines and ...
Before Crusoe: Defoe, Voice, and the Ministry
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By Penny Pritchard
September 30, 2020
Penny Pritchard is a Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature, and has taught at the University of Hertfordshire since completing her PhD in 2006. Both her doctoral thesis (entitled ‘Defoe, Rhetoric, and Nonconformity’) and MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies were undertaken at the University ...
Errors and Reconciliations: Marriage in the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding
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By Anaclara Castro-Santana
September 30, 2020
Henry Fielding is most well-known for his monumental novel Tom Jones. Though not necessarily common knowledge, Henry Fielding started his literary career as a dramatist and eventually transitioned to writing novels. Though vastly different in their approach and subject, there is a common thread in ...
On Declaring Love: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Jane Austen
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By Fred Parker
September 30, 2020
"What did she say? – Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does."This book explores the act of declaring love in works of literature written between the middle of the eighteenth century and the death of Jane Austen - and uncovers the uncertain boundaries of the self in the force-field of ...
Reimagining Society in 18th Century French Literature: Happiness and Human Rights
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By Jonas Ross Kjærgård
September 30, 2020
The French revolutionary shift from monarchical to popular sovereignty came clothed in a new political language, a significant part of which was a strange coupling of happiness and rights. In Old Regime ideology, Frenchmen were considered subjects who had no need of understanding why what was ...
The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship: Beyond Recovery
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By Robin Runia
September 30, 2020
There is an unfortunate argument being made that feminist scholarship of eighteenth-century literary studies has fulfilled its potential in academic circles. The Future of Eighteenth-Century Feminist Scholarship: Beyond Recovery shows us otherwise. Each of the essays in this volume reaffirms the ...
Wordsworth Before Coleridge: The Growth of the Poet’s Philosophical Mind, 1785-1797
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By Mark Bruhn
September 30, 2020
Drawing extensively upon archival resources and manuscript evidence, Wordsworth Before Coleridge rewrites the early history of Wordsworth’s intellectual development and thereby overturns a century-old consensus that derives his most important philosophical ideas from Coleridge. Beginning with ...