Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books

Book SynopsisLa France est une nation légère – ce lieu commun antique est abondamment repris tout au long du XVIIIe siècle, témoignant de profonds bouleversements axiologiques, scientifiques et éthiques, dont ce volume collectif cherche à mesurer l’importance et les enjeux, en racontant l’histoire d’un autre siècle des Lumières : celle d’un siècle de la Légèreté. Propre aux représentations que le XVIIIe siècle français construit de lui-même, tant par rapport aux siècles qui l’ont précédé que dans une logique de parallèle entre les nations européennes, la légèreté du XVIIIe siècle est un important paradigme de l’historiographie qui s’est constituée sitôt après la Révolution. Les héritiers du XVIIIe siècle ne reconnaissent pas seulement en lui l’âge de la raison et du progrès, des Lumières et des droits du citoyen, mais éprouvent aussi tantôt du mépris, tantôt de la nostalgie pour la prétendue légèreté de ses mœurs, la futilité de ses goûts ou la frivolité de ses enfantillages. Entre la bourgeoisie industrieuse du XIXe siècle tirant profit des représentations voluptueuses des fêtes galantes et l’intérêt de notre époque célébrant l’aimable frivolité du siècle de Marie-Antoinette, le XVIIIe siècle en sa légèreté n’a jamais cessé de séduire certes, mais aussi de questionner le récit progressiste de la raison et de l’utilité dans la définition des valeurs qui fondent notre communauté.Aussi importe-t-il d’interroger les conceptions et les valeurs qui sont associées à la notion de légèreté au XVIIIe siècle, de manière à mieux comprendre dans quelle mesure elle a pu être associée à la fois au caractère de la nation française en général et au XVIIIe siècle en particulier. --- The age-old cliché that France is a light-hearted nation is echoed repeatedly throughout the eighteenth century and bears witness to the deep axiological, scientific and ethical upheavals which this volume explores. By analysing the importance of, and issues at stake in, these transformations, the articles gathered here tell the story of another age of Enlightenment: the story of an age of lightness.Lightness is at the crux of how the French eighteenth century represents itself both in contrast with previous centuries and through parallels between European nations. The concept of lightness therefore constitutes an essential paradigm of the historiography that developed immediately after the French Revolution. The intellectual heirs of the eighteenth century do not only find in this period an age of reason, progress, Enlightenment and citizens’ rights; they also feel, at times, contempt, at other times, nostalgia for the alleged lightness of its mores, the futility of its taste or the frivolity of its childish ways. Between the industrious bourgeoisie of the 19th century exploiting the voluptuous representations of fêtes galantes and the fascination of our own 21st century for the delightful frivolity of Marie-Antoinette’s era, the 18th century in its lightness has never lost its charm. Yet, crucially, it also challenges the progressive narrative of the history of reason and usefulness in the definition of the very values on which our community is built. It is therefore essential to analyse the concepts and values associated to the notion of lightness in the 18th century. Such an approach yields breakthroughs in understanding why, and to what extent, this idea of lightness has been related to the French national character in general as well as, more particularly, to its 18th century.Table of ContentsListe des illustrations Remerciements Marine Ganofsky et Jean-Alexandre Perras, Introduction: un siècle de légèreté? Patrick Wald Lasowski, Palpable! Marine Ganofsky, Le paradis artificiel de la légèreté dans les arts libertins: l’exemple d’Angola de La MorlièreMaxime Triquenaux, ‘S’amuser, et quelquefois amuser les autres, en leur rappelant ce qui n’existe plus’: la mémoire de la légèreté nobiliaire dans les Fragments de l’histoire de ma vie du prince de Ligne Kevin Hilliard, Leichtigkeit: un idéal de la poésie allemande du dix-huitième siècle Kate Grandjouan, ‘Car le Français, comme la Mer, est perpétuellement en mouvement’: satires anglaises sur l’inconstance des Français Azzurra Mauro, ‘Les matières graves il faut les alléger’: paradoxes du recours à la légèreté chez l’abbé Galiani Maria Susana Seguin, De la légère profondeur des sciences: Fontenelle à l’Académie des sciences Jean-Olivier Richard, La légèreté du père Castel James Fowler, Le poids des mots: gravité, légèreté, attraction dans les Lettres philosophiques Joël Castonguay-Bélanger, Plus légers que les vents: portraits littéraires des premiers aéronautes Jean-Alexandre Perras, Les cabrioles des boulevards Anthony Wall, De la légèreté d’un personnage qui franchit un pont chez Hubert Robert Élise Urbain, ‘Dans un instant, la toilette aura tout gâté’: négligences et légèreté dans la peinture et la mode en France au dix-huitième siècle Cyril Barde, ‘Le siècle de la poudre et des mouches’: Octave Uzanne au défi du siècle léger Érika Wicky, Les parfums de l’Ancien Régime: persistence et représentations au dix-neuvième siècle Résumés Liste des ouvrages cités Index

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Book SynopsisWhile many periods of history are popularly known by their 'great men', the Enlightenment stands out for the prominence of its 'great groups’. This volume assembles leading scholars using data-driven scholarship to study the networks that made the Enlightenment possible, and contributed to creating a new sense of European identity. From Voltaire’s correspondence with Catherine the Great, to Adam Smith’s travels on the European continent, mediated and unmediated communication networks were the lifeline of the Enlightenment. What is particularly notable about the Enlightenment is how these different networks were central to their participants’ identity. One could not take part in the Enlightenment on one’s own. Although some older historical studies highlight the importance of social networks in the Enlightenment, data-driven approaches allow for a more comprehensive and granular understanding of the many different types of networks that formed the intellectual and cultural infrastructure of the Enlightenment throughout Europe. The recent influx of metadata from the correspondences of major Enlightenment figures now allows scholars to study these networks at both the micro and macro levels, and to explore the worlds of the philosophes and the “nodes” in their networks in rich detail. It is at this intersection of Enlightenment historiography, data capture, and social network analysis that the essays collected in this volume all fall, taking advantage of new data sources, configurations, and modes of analysis to deepen our understanding of how Enlightenment sociability worked, who it included, and what it meant for participants. Table of ContentsList of figures and tablesDan Edelstein and Chloe Summers Edmonson, Introduction: historical network analysis and social groups in the EnlightenmentI. Correspondence networksNicholas Cronk, Voltaire’s correspondence network: questions of exploration and interpretationKelsey Rubin-Detlev and Andrew Kahn, Catherine the Great and the art of epistolary networkingCheryl Smeall, ‘He belonged to Europe’: Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764) and his European networksPierre-Yves Beaurepaire, The networks and the reputation of an ambitious Republican of Letters: Jacques de Pérard (Paris, 1713-Stettin, 1766)II. Social networksChloe Summers Edmonson, Julie de Lespinasse and the ‘philosophical’ salonCharlotta Wolff, ‘Un admirateur des philosophes modernes’: the networks of Swedish ambassador Gustav Philip Creutz in Paris, 1766-1783Maria Teodora Comsa, Casanova’s French networks: transitioning from a backstage coterie to the beau mondeIII. Knowledge networksMelanie Conroy, The eighteenth-century French academic networkMark Algee-Hewitt, The principles of meaning: networks of knowledge in Johnson’s DictionarySummariesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisRené-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d’Argenson (1694-1757), minister of state and author, was one of the boldest critics of the social and political structure of Old Regime France to put pen to paper in the eighteenth century. His Considérations sur le gouvernement ancien et présent de la France advanced a scathing indictment of the existing order alongside a far-reaching reform plan to spread democracy and obviate aristocracy within the monarchy. Manuscripts of the Considérations circulated clandestinely among philosophes and other political writers such as the abbé Saint-Pierre, Voltaire, and Rousseau until its posthumous publication in 1764.This is the first critical edition of d’Argenson’s Considérations, based on four different manuscripts and presented here with a selection of d’Argenson’s other political writings that have never been published. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Andrew Jainchill introduces d’Argenson’s treatise with an essay interpreting his political ideas, showing the important changes he made to the different manuscripts over the decades he worked on the text, and situating within the political and intellectual context d’Argenson’s political project to introduce democracy into absolute monarchy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of abbreviations IntroductionNote on additional texts Note on the text Jusqu’où la démocratie peut être admise dans le gouvernement monarchique [Considérations sur le gouvernement ancien et présent de la France], by René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d’Argenson Essai de l’exercice du tribunal européen par la France pour la pacification universelle. Appliqué au temps courant, by René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d’Argenson Mémoire contre les abus de la taille arbitraire, présenté au cardinal de Fleury, en décembre 1731, by René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d’Argenson Lettre sur le livre de l’Essai politique, by René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d’Argenson Observations sur l’ouvrage politique manuscrit de M., by Saint-Pierre Observations de l’abbé de Saint-Pierre sur le précédent mémoire [Mémoire contre les abus de la taille arbitraire, présenté au cardinal de Fleury, en décembre 1731], by Saint-Pierre Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPrinted in Utopia examines the bloody era of the Renaissance in all of its contradictions and moments of utopian possibility. From the dissenting religious anarchists of the 17th century, to the feminist verse of Amelia Lanyer and Richard Barnfield's poetics of gay rights. From an analysis of the rhetoric of feces in Martin Luther, to the spiritual liberation of Anna Trapnell. What is presented is the radical Renaissance too often hidden away, an age which birthed our modern world in all of its ugliness, but which still holds the latent seeds for a new and better future world.

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Book SynopsisThe Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great is the first study to analyse comprehensively the letters of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia (reigned 1762-1796) and to argue that they constitute a masterpiece of eighteenth-century epistolary writing. In this book, Kelsey Rubin-Detlev traces Catherine’s development as a letter-writer, her networking strategies, and her image-making, demonstrating the centrality of ideas, literary experimentation, and manipulation of material form evident in Catherine’s epistolary practice. Through this, Rubin-Detlev illustrates how Catherine’s letters reveal her full engagement with the Enlightenment and further show how creatively she absorbed and responded to the ideas of her century. The letter was not merely a means by which the empress promoted Russia and its leader as European powers; it was a literary genre through which Catherine expressed her identity as a member of the social, political, and intellectual elite of her century.Trade ReviewReviews'The monograph truly brings to life the complexity of Catherine’s voice as reflected in her letter writing art as it evolved over decades. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the cultural history of the eighteenth century, and an inspiring example of cultural and literary analysis of epistolary heritage.'American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), from their 2020 book awards.'The book exhibits great imagination in the range of skills Rubin-Detlev demonstrates in spanning the broad historical grasp, theorisations of the letter genre and of gender construction as well as a fine sense of nuance when teasing out subtleties of evolving word usage or cliché, the nuances of Catherine’s switching between languages, and textual detail. All of these facets are seamlessly integrated with an engaging and imaginative writing style especially impressive in a first book.'Prof. Judith Pallot (Christ Church, Oxford) and Prof. Jeremy Hicks (Queen Mary University of London), judges of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) Alexander Nove Prize 2019.‘Kelsey Rubin-Detlev’s monograph... constitutes an important contribution to the study of the sources of the time of Catherine II.’ Aleksandr Lavrov, Cahiers du Monde russe (translated from French)Table of ContentsList of illustrationsAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsNote on dates, quotations and transliteration Introduction: Catherine the Great, letter-writing and the elite EnlightenmentThe letters of Catherine the GreatThe elite Enlightenment of Catherine the GreatChapter 1: Catherine the epistolarianCatherine’s epistolary education: 1742-1762Catherine’s début: 1762-1774In transition: 1774-1781Mastery: 1781-1789An Enlightenment monarch in a Revolutionary world: 1789-1796Catherine’s epistolary geographyCatherine and her contemporariesChapter 2: Catherine the Great and eighteenth-century epistolary styleLettres galantesLettres familièresPortrait and narrative lettersLove lettersChapter 3: Fashioning the great Enlightenment monarchGender and epistolary self-fashioningCatherine’s image as an Enlightenment intellectualFashioning greatnessThe correct exercise of military mightCompensating for military heroism: flourishing provincesPatronage of the arts and sciencesEthical greatnessThe legislatorChapter 4: The play of authority in epistolary formAuthority and linguistic masteryAuthority and writing practicesEpistolary etiquettePaper useDatelinesSalutationsClosersForegoing etiquetteAffection-seeking formulaePostscriptsSignatures, addresses and attachmentsChapter 5: Epistolary publicity and the audience for Catherine’s correspondencesThe injunction against publicationBuilding reputation through networks of epistolary sociabilityManaging celebrity through epistolary circulationFrom reputation to glory: writing for posterity by addressing gens de mériteChapter 6: Greatness contested: Catherine’s epistolary response to the French RevolutionChronology of Catherine’s epistolary actions against the French RevolutionOld and new in Catherine’s epistolary styleGreatness contested: confronting the pastConclusion: new readers and new ways of reading Catherine’s lettersBibliography of works citedArchival sourcesEditions of Catherine’s lettersSecondary sources: EnglishSecondary sources: FrenchSecondary sources: RussianSecondary sources: GermanSecondary sources: ItalianIndex

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.This book offers the first full-length study of Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets and clarifies its ‘place’ – in multiple ways – in literary history as a work celebrated for ‘making it new’, yet deeply engaged with the literary past. It argues that Smith’s sonnets are constituted by three intertwined concerns: with tradition, place and the sonnet form itself, whereby the subjects of Smith’s sonnets – across birds, rivers, the sea, plants and flowers – are bound up with the literary context in which she wrote. Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet shows that Smith’s verse engages more deeply with tradition than has hitherto been realised and revises our understanding not only of Smith’s career but also of the sonnet in eighteenth-century England. The book also illuminates Smith’s place in posterity, as a popular poet – influencing figures ranging from Wordsworth and Coleridge to Constable – who was subsequently obscured in literary history. It reveals the complex processes underpinning Smith’s reception and paradoxical position from the late eighteenth century to the present day, and shows that the appropriation of place itself was an important way in which aspects of literary tradition have been negotiated and understood by Smith, her predecessors, contemporaries and successors.Trade Review‘[Roberts] offers fascinating readings of some of Smith’s now long-forgotten precursors, placing the poet within a lively and constantly evolving English sonnet tradition.’ Claire Knowles, European Romantic Review‘Roberts provides something new and even overdue with her meticulous accounting of the nine editions of Smith’s name-making Elegiac Sonnets and Smith’s evolution as a poet over the corresponding sixteen years… [Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet] is valuable as a thorough and authoritative account of Smith’s influential poetry, with (as promised in the title) broader implications for understanding place and form in Romanticism, particularly in her proposal that the sonnet is an importantly Romantic poetic form.’ Lawrence Evalyn, Eighteenth-Century Fiction'Roberts provides something new and even overdue with her meticulous accounting of the nine editions of Smith’s name-making Elegiac Sonnets and Smith’s evolution as a poet over the corresponding sixteen years… The monograph is valuable as a thorough and authoritative account of Smith’s influential poetry.' Lawrence Evalyn, Northeastern UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 The Eighteenth-Century Sonnet2 Tradition3 Innovation4 Wider Prospect5 Botany to Beachy HeadBibliography

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Book SynopsisThe emergence of a theatrical science of man in France, 1660-1740 highlights a radical departure from discussions of dramatic literature and its undergirding rules to a new, relational discourse on the emotional power of theater. Through a diverse cast of religious theaterphobes, government officials, playwrights, art theorists and proto-philosophes, Connors shows the concerted effort in early Enlightenment France to use texts about theater to establish broader theories on emotion, on the enduring psychological and social ramifications of affective moments, and more generally, on human interaction, motivation, and social behavior. This fundamentally anthropological assessment of theater emerged in the works of anti-theatrical religious writers, who argued that emotional response was theater’s raison d’être and that it was an efficient venue to learn more about the depravity of human nature. A new generation of pro-theatrical writers shared the anti-theatricalists’ intense focus on the emotions of theater, but unlike religious theaterphobes, they did not view emotion as a conduit of sin or as a dangerous, uncontrollable process; but rather, as cognitive-affective moments of feeling and learning. Connors’ study explores this reassessment of the theatrical experience which empowered writers to use plays, critiques, and other cultural materials about the stage to establish a theatrical science of man—an early Enlightenment project with aims to study and ‘improve’ the emotional, social, and political ‘health’ of eighteenth-century France.Trade Review‘Informed by recent work in emotions history and affect theory, the book’s six engaging and original chapters show how this theatrical science repositioned early eighteenth-century spectators, not as hapless victims, but as active learners for whom the theatrical experience was a source of knowledge about the emotions… The Emergence of a Theatrical Science of Man in France makes a strong case for why cultural understandings of theatre as a social practice must also consider intellectual history as well as the dramatic texts that were performed. There are many fine-grained analyses of plays that convincingly illustrate the emotional dynamics described in the book… this book makes for fascinating, provocative reading.’ Annelle Curulla, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre ResearchTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: theater, emotions, science of manDiderot’s relational dramaFrom religious theaterphobia to theatrical innovationAffect, intentionality, and the history of emotions Chapter 1: Theaterphobia and the transformational power of performanceAnti-theatrical criticism: goals and strategiesCorneille, Nicole, and the reality of emotionsLearning dangerously from the passions: Pierre Nicole’s Traité de la comédieDebating theatrical emotions in the wake of Nicole’s Traité Chapter 2: “Que sur la superficie de notre cœur”: Jean-Baptiste Dubos’s theatrical emotionsEmotional debates: past and presentA different path to aesthetic appreciationThe political case for pleasureDubos’s cognitive-affective sequences Chapter 3: Beyond affect: from Dubos’s “passions superficielles” to Houdar de La Motte’s “sentiments raisonnables”La Motte, the Querelle, and the RegencyLa Motte’s “sentiments raisonnables”The dramaturgical power of intérêt Chapter 4: From the page to the stage: La Motte’s theatrical inquiry into the emotionsContext and emotion in Les Macchabées (1721)Intentionality and suspense in Romulus (1722)Inès de Castro (1723) and the emotional politics of intérêt Chapter 5: Strategic passions: Marivaux’s Moderne subjectivitiesMarivaux’s trajectory from Moderne to bel esprit to scientist of manLearning from the “organs”: Marivaux’s intuitive ethicsSentimental strategies: Marivaux’s theories of emotion in Le Triomphe de l’amour (1732) Chapter 6: Learning through multiplicité: emotion and distance in the comédie larmoyanteThe decline and rebirth of Nivelle de La Chaussée’s emotional poeticsMeaning-making through the romanesqueThe pièce-cadre: emotion, multiplicité, and spectatorship in La Fausse Antipathie (1733) Conclusion: avant-gardes, emotion, and Enlightenment Works citedIndex

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Book SynopsisIn a speech delivered in 1794, roughly one year after the execution of Louis XVI, Robespierre boldly declared Terror to be an ‘emanation of virtue’. In adapting the concept of virtue to Republican ends, Robespierre was drawing on traditions associated with ancient Greece and Rome. But Republican tradition formed only one of many strands in debates concerning virtue in France and elsewhere in Europe, from 1680 to the Revolution. This collection focuses on moral-philosophical and classical-republican uses of ‘virtue’ in this period – one that is often associated with a ‘crisis of the European mind’. It also considers in what ways debates concerning virtue involved gendered perspectives. The texts discussed are drawn from a range of genres, from plays and novels to treatises, memoirs, and libertine literature. They include texts by authors such as Diderot, Laclos, and Madame de Staël, plus other, lesser-known texts that broaden the volume’s perspective. Collectively, the contributors to the volume highlight the central importance of virtue for an understanding of an era in which, as Daniel Brewer argues in the closing chapter, ‘the political could not be thought outside its moral dimension, and morality could not be separated from inevitable political consequences’.Trade Review‘This fascinating book is likely to have a long-standing presence in the reading lists of students of French intellectual history…The philosophes certainly raised many questions about the possibility of secular virtue, and the contributions to this book reveal just how important such questions were.’ Madeleine Armstrong, Modern Language Review'This volume avoids the trap of many others of its kind, as the articles are selected and assembled in a coherent manner in a chronological order in such a way as to give a truly comprehensive view of the of the subject matter.' Rotraud von Kulessa, 18th Century Fiction Translated from English, 'This volume escapes the trap of many others of its kind, because the articles are chosen and put together in a coherent way in a chronological order in such a way as to be able to give a real overview of the subject matter.'Table of ContentsList of figuresAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsJames Fowler and Marine Ganofsky, Introduction: virtue and the secular turn, 1680-1794Michael Moriarty, Virtue before the EnlightenmentNicholas Treuherz, Vertu et Lumières: Bayle’s ‘virtuous atheist’ and its afterlivesJames Fowler, Secular virtue: echoes of Shaftesbury in DiderotAlicia C. Montoya, From the religious virtues to Enlightenment virtueIoana Galleron, Bernard-Joseph Saurin, the comédie de moeurs and the civic function of playsKaren Nehlsen Manna, Acting honnête: effeminacy, masculinity and the ethos of social virtue in Enlightenment comedyJean-Alexandre Perras, The softness of the petit-maître and the decay of virtusMathilde Chollet, ‘La vera nobiltà non consiste in altro che nella virtù’: a woman’s view on virtue, or Henriette de Marans’s nobilityMarine Ganofsky, Virtue and invisibility: libertine variations on the myth of GygesLydia Vázquez, Female virtue and bliss in the eighteenth centuryPierre Saint-Amand, The politics of virtue: Réflexions sur le procès de la reine by Mme de StaëlPatrice Higonnet, Robespierre’s virtue in Marx and TocquevilleDaniel Brewer, Virtue and the ethics of the virtualSummariesList of works citedIndex

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Book SynopsisMaterial Transgressions reveals how Romantic-era authors think outside of historical and theoretical ideologies that reiterate notions of sexed bodies, embodied subjectivities, isolated things, or stable texts. The essays gathered here examine how Romantic writers rethink materiality, especially the subject-object relationship, in order to challenge the tenets of Enlightenment and the culture of sensibility that privileged the hegemony of the speaking and feeling lyric subject and to undo supposedly invariable matter, and representations of it, that limited their writing, agency, knowledge, and even being. In this volume, the idea of transgression serves as a flexible and capacious discursive and material movement that braids together fluid forms of affect, embodiment, and textuality. The texts explored offer alternative understandings of materiality that move beyond concepts that fix gendered bodies and intellectual capacities, whether human or textual, idea or thing. They enact processes – assemblages, ghost dances, pack mentality, reiterative writing, shapeshifting, multi-voiced choric oralities – that redefine restrictive structures in order to craft alternative modes of being in the world that can help us to reimagine materiality both in the Romantic period and now. Such dynamism not only reveals a new materialist imaginary for Romanticism but also unveils textualities, affects, figurations, and linguistic movements that alter new materialism’s often strictly ontological approach.List of contributors: Kate Singer, Ashley Cross, Suzanne L. Barnett, Harriet Kramer Linkin, Michael Gamer, Katrina O’Loughlin, Emily J. Dolive, Holly Gallagher, Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, Mary Beth Tegan, Mark Lounibos, Sonia Hofkosh, David Sigler, Chris Washington, Donelle Ruwe, Mark Lussier.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Living in a New Material WorldKate Singer, Ashley Cross, and Suzanne L. BarnettI. Textual EmbodimentsDestabilizing Materiality Through Manuscript Culture in Blake, Coleridge, and TigheHarriet Kramer Linkin Affect in the Margins: Marking Readers in the Elegiac SonnetsMichael Gamer and Katrina O’LoughlinRemapping the Printed Page in Women’s Post-Waterloo PoetryEmily DoliveVibrant Art on the Grand Tour in Anna Jameson’s Diary of an EnnuyéeHolly GallagherII. Transgressive ThingsHester Stanhope, 'Un être à part': Material Transgression and Belonging in the EastJillian Heydt-Stevenson‘The Redundancy of Copious Nothings': Fictional Offspring and the Reproductions of Female VanityMary Beth TeganRevolutionary Objects in Elizabeth Inchbald’s Nature and ArtMark LounibosDancing with Ghosts in 'Isabella; or The Pot of Basil'Sonia HofkoshIt’s the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Queer: Mary Shelley, Affect, and Shapeshifting through The Last ManKate SingerIII. Materialities Sexual & AnimalVoices against the Universe: Material Transgressions in the Blakean MultiverseMark LussierJohn Barnet and the Materiality of Desire in James Hogg’s Justified SinnerDavid SiglerPhantasmion, or the Confessions of a Female Opium EaterDonelle RuweWerewolf Wollstonecraft: homo homini lupus, or Romantic Beast WarsChris Washington

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Book SynopsisComedy and Crisis contains the first ever scholarly English translation of Pieter Langendijk’s Quincampoix, or the Wind Traders [Quincampoix of de Windhandelaars], and Harlequin Stock-Jobber [Arlequin Actionist]. The first play is a full-length satirical comedy, and the second is a short, comic harlequinade; both were written in Dutch in response to the speculative financial crisis or bubble of 1720 and were performed in Amsterdam in the fall of 1720, as the bubble in the Netherlands was bursting. Comedy and Crisis also contains our translation of the extensive apparatus prepared by C.H.P. Meijer (Introduction and notes) for his 1892 edition of these plays. The current editors have updated the footnotes and added six new critical essays by contemporary literary and historical scholars that contextualize the two plays historically and culturally. The book includes an extensive bibliography and index. The materials assembled in Comedy and Crisis are a rich resource for cultural, historical, and literary students of the history of finance and of eighteenth-century studies.Trade Review'In providing us with Lengendijk’s plays in English translation and with scholarly commentary, Goggin and De Bruyn have made a contribution to Mennonite studies as well as to the wider scholarly world.'Keith L. Sprunger, The Mennonite Quarterly Review 'Comedy and Crisis, with illustrations that are illuminating here and there, provides a multifaceted overview and insight into the (inter)national context in which within which we must place and understand Langendijk's texts.’ Anna de Haas, The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History Translated from Dutch, ‘Comedy and Crisis, met hier en daar verhelderende illustraties, een veelzijdig overzicht van en inzicht in de (inter)nationale context waarbinnen we de teksten van Langendijk moeten plaatsen en begrijpen.’'The wealth of knowledge that these essays bring together around the two pieces is impressive. They show that research at the intersection of cultural and literary history on the one hand and economic history on the other has been very productive in recent years... Hopefully, with this publication, international interest will reach a new peak.' Kornee van der Haven, Low Countries Historical Review Translated from Dutch, 'De rijkdom aan kennis die deze essays rond de twee stukken samenbrengen is indrukwekkend. Ze laten zien dat het onderzoek op het snijvlak van cultuur- en literatuurgeschiedenis enerzijds en economische geschiedenis anderzijds de afgelopen jaren heel productief is geweest... Hopelijk zal die internationale interesse met deze publicatie een nieuw hoogtepunt beleven.'

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Book SynopsisL’abbé de Saint-Pierre, connu pour son Projet de paix perpétuelle, a laissé un ensemble bien plus vaste et cohérent d’écrits politiques et moraux jusqu’alors dispersés et partiellement étudiés. Le présent ouvrage, exploitant systématiquement la totalité de l’oeuvre, en propose la complète réévaluation. Dès les premières décennies du XVIIIe siècle, Saint-Pierre promeut une harmonisation artificielle des intérêts, assurée par l’intervention politique et s’affirme, avant Bentham, comme l’un des premiers utilitaristes. Il imagine de substituer à la patrimonialisation, aux recommandations et clientèles qui structuraient la société de son temps et déterminaient l’exercice du pouvoir, une organisation rationnelle, méritocratique et dynamique. ll remplace les valeurs charismatiques fondant la perfection chrétienne ou la grandeur aristocratique par les objectifs de l’utilité et du bien public. Pour ce déiste conciliant moralité et religion, la recherche du salut par une piété active doit favoriser la justice et la bienfaisance. Selon lui, seul le pouvoir indivisible d’un monarque informé par des élites compétentes peut réaliser des réformes nécessaires au bonheur du plus grand nombre. Promoteur d’un État de bien-être imposé autoritairement, il représente, avant le plein essor de l’économie politique, des sciences camérales et de la doctrine des physiocrates, une dimension méconnue des Lumières politiques que cette étude entend souligner. ---The Abbé de Saint-Pierre, best known for his Project for Perpetual Peace, in fact left a much larger and more coherent body of political and moral writing, but it has been only partially studied. This book, the first systematic exploration of his entire corpus, offers a complete re-evaluation of this important author’s contributions to the Enlightenment. From the first decades of the 18th century, Saint-Pierre set forth a pioneering vision of politics as the harmonization of interests, anticipating Bentham as a utilitarian. He imagines replacing the system of inherited power and clientele networks which structured Old Regime society and determined the exercise of power under absolutism, with a rationalized, meritocratic and dynamic organization. He argued for the political values of social utility and public good to take the place of the Christian ideals of perfection and the aristocratic ideals of personal charisma. As a deist seeking to reconcile morality and religion, Saint-Pierre argued that the search for salvation through active piety must also promote social justice and beneficence -- and that only the indivisible power of a rationalized monarch, informed by competent elites, could carry out the reforms necessary to yield a government which would produce the greatest happiness for the greatest number. Saint-Pierre, thus, provided among the first arguments for an imposed welfare state, well before the sources more frequently associated with that idea -- political economists, cameralists and the physiocrats.Trade Review'Carole Dornier provides an in-depth analysis of the changes in political concepts in their historical context. The great merit of this book lies in the fact that it breaks with the image of the utopian generally disseminated by this original thinker who left us an extraordinary collection of texts proposing relevant reforms in a period of great changes in France and Europe.'Translated from French,'Carole Dornier analyse en profondeur les changements des concepts politiques dans leur contexte historique. Le grand mérite de cet ouvrage réside dans le fait qu’il rompt avec l’image de l’utopiste généralement diffusée de ce penseur original qui nous a laissé une extraordinaire collection de textes proposant des réformes pertinentes dans une période de grands changements en France et en Europe.'Ferenc Tóth, Dix-Huitième Siècle‘An indispensable tool for anyone interested in to Enlightenment thinking.’ Translated from French, 'Un outil indispensable pour tous ceux qui s’intéressent à la pensée des Lumières.' Patrizzia Oppici, Francofonia

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Book SynopsisDuring the eighteenth century there was a growing interest in recording, listing and documenting the world, whether for personal interest and private consumption, or general record and the greater good. Such documentation was done through both the written and printed word. Each genre had its own material conventions and spawned industries which supported these practices. This volume considers writing and printing in parallel: it highlights the intersections between the two methods of communication; discusses the medium and materiality of the message; considers how writing and printing were deployed in the construction of personal and cultural identities; and explores the different dimensions surrounding the production, distribution and consumption of private and public letters, words and texts during the eighteenth-century. In combination the chapters in this volume consider how the processes of both writing and printing contributed to the creation of cultural identity and taste, assisted in the spread of knowledge and furthered personal, political, economic, social and cultural change in Britain and the wider-world. This volume provides an original narrative on the nature of communication and brings a fresh perspective on printing history, print culture and the literate society of the Enlightenment.Trade Review"An intelligently constructed volume; a fine collection that is both readable and enjoyable."Professor Aileen Douglas, School of English, Trinity College Dublin'The general editors of the series… hope that these publications will further promote further innovative and an interdisciplinary approach to global eighteenth-century studies... Their aim has certainly been achieved in Pen, Print and Communication, a well-produced, enlightening, and attractively illustrated volume.'Rory T Cornish, Journal of British Studies'Highly recommended as an introduction to the important topic of the rich and complex roles of handwriting and print in the social and cultural melting-pot of the eighteenth century.' John Hinks, Midland HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction, Caroline Archer-Parré and Malcolm Dick 1. The Growth of Copperplate Script: Joseph Champion and The Universal Penman, Nicolas Barker 2. Authorship in script and print: the example of engraved handwriting manuals of the eighteenth century, Giles Bergel 3.Writing and the preservation of cultural identity: the penmanship manuals of Zaharija Orfelin, Persida Lazarević Di Giacomo 4. ‘The most beautiful hand’: John Byrom and the aesthetics of shorthand, Timothy Underhill 5. An Archaeology of the Letter Writing: the correspondence of aristocratic women in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England, Ruth Larsen 6. Private pleasures and portable presses: do-it-yourself printers in the eighteenth-century, Caroline Archer-Parré 7. Performance and print culture: two eighteenth-century actresses and their image control, Joanna Jarvis 8. Script, print, and the public/private divide: Sir David Ochterlony’s dying words, Callie Wilkinson 9. Identity, enigma, assemblage: John Baskerville’s Vocabulary, or Pocket Dictionary, Lynda Muggleston 10. Marigolds not manufacturing: plants, print and commerce in eighteenth-century Birmingham, Elaine Mitchell 11. Tourist Experience and the Manufacturing Town: James Bisset’s Magnificent Directory of Birmingham, Jenni Dixon 12. Forging an identity on the periphery of the Enlightenment: Malta in print in the eighteenth-century, Robert Thake 13. Perceptions of England: the production and reception of English theatrical publications in Germany and the Netherlands during the eighteenth century, Emil Rybczak 14. Print Culture and Distribution: Circulating the Federalist Papers in post-Revolutionary America, Peter Pellizzari 15. The serif-less letters of John Soane, Jon Melton Notes on the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAlthough posterity has generally known Bernardin de Saint-Pierre for his bestselling Paul et Virginie, his output was encyclopaedic. Using new sources, this monograph explores the many facets of a celebrity writer in the Ancien Régime, the Revolution and the early nineteenth century. Bernardin attracted a readership to whom, irrespective of age, gender or social situation, he became a guide to living. He was nominated by Louis XVI to manage the Jardin des plantes, by Revolutionary bodies to teach at the École normale and to membership of the Institut. He deplored unquestioning adherence to Newtonian ideas, materialistic atheism and human misdeeds in what could be considered proto-ecological terms. He bemoaned analytical, reductionist approaches: his philosophy placed human beings at the centre of the universe and stressed the interconnectedness of cosmic harmony. Bernardin learned enormously from travel to Eastern Europe and the Indian Ocean. He attacked slavery, championed a national education system and advocated justice for authors. Fresh information and interpretation show that he belonged to neither the philosophe or anti-philosophe camp. A reformist, he envisioned a regenerated France as a nation of liberty offering asylum for refugees. This study demonstrates the range of thought and expression of an incontournable polymath in an age of transformation.Trade Review‘[O]riginal and germane... explore[s] the splendeurs et misères of the authorial condition in the late eighteenth century.’ Robin Howells, Modern Language Review

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Book SynopsisCharles Macklin (1699?–1797) was one of the most important figures in the eighteenth-century theatre. Born in Ireland, he began acting in London in around 1725 and gave his final performance in 1789 – no other actor can claim to have acted across seven decades of the century, from the reign of George I to the Regency Crisis of 1788. He is credited alongside Garrick with the development of the natural school of acting and gave a famous performance of Shylock that gave George II nightmares. As a dramatist, he wrote one of the great comic pieces of the mid-century (Love à la Mode, 1759), as well as the only play of the century to be twice refused a performance licence (The Man of the World, 1781). He opened an experimental coffeehouse in Covent Garden, he advocated energetically for actors’ rights and copyright reform for dramatists, and he successfully sued theatre rioters. In short, he had an astonishingly varied career. With essays by leading experts on eighteenth-century culture, this volume provides a sustained critical examination of his career, illuminating many aspects of eighteenth-century theatrical culture and of the European Enlightenment, and explores the scholarly benefit – and thrill – of restaging Macklin’s work in the twenty-first century.Trade Review‘With thirteen scholarly articles by established academics, this publication will without doubt restore Macklin to his rightful place as a towering personality of the London theatre world of the eighteenth century… [a] powerful academic panorama of Macklin’s work.’ Seán Beattie, Donegal Annual‘This collection will interest more than just fans of the Irish actor Charles Macklin. At stake in examining Macklin’s life and work is the fashioning of a more capacious understanding of the Enlightenment… meticulous research also unearths evidence that expands our view of Macklin’s impact on Georgian theatre.’ Kristina Straub, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research

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Book SynopsisHow do communities tell and retell stories of catastrophe to explain their own origins, imagine their future, and work for their survival? This book contends that such stories are central to how communities claim a position within history. It explores this question, so vital for our present moment, through narratives produced in eighteenth-century France: a tumultuous period when a new understanding of a properly 'modern' national history was being elaborated. Who gets to belong to the modern era? And who or what is relegated to a gothic, barbarous or medieval past? Is an enlightened future assured, or is a return to a Dark Age inevitable? Following barbarians, bastards, usurpers, prophets and Revolutionary martyrs through stories of catastrophes real and imagined, the book traces how narrative temporalities become historicities: visions of the laws which govern the past, present and future. Ultimately it argues that the complex temporality of catastrophe offers a privileged insight into how a modern French historical consciousness was formed out of the multiple pasts and possible futures that coexisted alongside the age of Enlightenment. Further, examining the tension between a desire to place the imagined community definitively beyond catastrophic times, and a fascination with catastrophe in its revelatory or regenerative aspect, it offers an important historical perspective on the presence of this same tension in the stories of catastrophe that we tell in our own multiple, tumultuous present.Trade Review‘In important ways, what Stacey brings to the discussion is a focus precisely on how eighteenth-century writers (especially those lesser-known antiquarians) dealt with the Middle Ages… [a] particularly intriguing part of the argument is the framing discussion of Jean-Pierre Dupuy and the catastrophe narratives of our own time, including those of the Anthropocene, a subject that haunts the entire book. Stacey is right that understanding catastrophe narratives of the Enlightenment can give us insight into these newer narrative formations, even if these belong to yet another regime of historicity.’ Daniel Rosenberg, Eighteenth-Century FictionTable of ContentsA Note on TranslationPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Authors of CatastropheChapter 1. Bringing Catastrophe: barbare (br)others, in and around the EncyclopédieChapter 2. Suffering Catastrophe: legitimate and illegitimate lines in Baculard d’Arnaud’s medievalist worksChapter 3. Prophesying Catastrophe, Predicting Utopia: the time travellers of Mercier’s prose tableauxChapter 4. Witnessing Catastrophe as Revelation: doing time with Latude and Sade, modern martyrsConclusionWorks Cited

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Book SynopsisEternity in British Romantic Poetry explores the representation of the relationship between eternity and the mortal world in the poetry of the period. It offers an original approach to Romanticism that demonstrates, against the grain, the dominant intellectual preoccupation of the era: the relationship between the mortal and the eternal. The project's scope is two-fold: firstly, it analyses the prevalence and range of images of eternity (from apocalypse and afterlife to transcendence) in Romantic poetry; secondly, it opens up a new and more nuanced focus on how Romantic poets imagined and interacted with the idea of eternity. Every poet featured in the book seeks and finds their uniqueness in their apprehension of eternity. From Blake’s assertion of the Eternal Now to Keats’s defiance of eternity, Wordsworth’s ‘two consciousnesses’ versus Coleridge’s capacious poetry, Byron’s swithering between versions of eternity compared to Shelleyan yearning, and Hemans’s superlative account of everlasting female suffering, each poet finds new versions of eternity to explore or reject. This monograph sets out a paradigm-shifting approach to the aesthetic and philosophical power of eternity in Romantic poetry. Table of ContentsIntroduction: ‘Demand No Direr Name’: Eternity in British Romantic Poetry1. ‘All is done as I have told’: Blake’s Eternal Prophecy2. Wordsworth: Sight, Vision, and Eternity3. Coleridge and the Hunger for Eternity4. ‘Heaven’s Brandy’: Byron’s Changing Eternity5. Desire and Eternity in Shelley’s Poetry6. Defying Eternity in Keats’s Poetry7. Hemans’s Records of Woman and the Eternity of Female SufferingAfterword: ‘To Open the Eternal Worlds'

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Book SynopsisWhat is turmoil? How may it be captured? What were its manifestations in the eighteenth century? Why does it feel so familiar, even urgent, nowadays? This volume proposes a completely new ontology of turmoil through study of its incidence and impact in the eighteenth-century francophone context. The interdisciplinary essays in this bilingual volume provide multiple illustrations of eighteenth-century instability and insecurity, as well as subsequent adjustments to a post-turmoil new normal. Each instance illuminates human resilience and the mechanisms of post-turmoil elasticity and adaptation in Enlightenment, revolutionary and post-revolutionary writing by female authors Charrière and Monbart, in publications by male authors Beaumarchais, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Chamfort, Dupaty, Raynal, Sade and Voltaire, and also in writing by relatively unknown authors, journalists and critics, who capture the turmoil of the global francophone eighteenth-century world. The topics explored emerge as universal ones, familiar to a modern readership: textual and visual revisionism, symbolism within natural disasters, realignment of beliefs, instability of memory, repositioning of historical narratives, female insecurity, attacks on public figures, post-revolutionary resilience and the impact of exile. Through its unique identification of three key generative indicators for turmoil —phenomenon, paradigm shift, elasticity of adaptation— this volume’s contributors deliver a distinctive, rich and new ontology of turmoil.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsCatriona Seth. Preface. Síofra Pierse. Introduction: Turmoil, Instability, Adaptation, Elasticity in the Eighteenth-Century Francophone TextSECTION I – Intimations of InsecurityIoana Galleron and Chiara Mainardi. Troubles, désordres, crises: une approche numérique des expressions de la tourmente au XVIIIe siècleKate E. Tunstall. The Knife and the Pen: The Attentat of 1757James Hanrahan. Political Turmoil in Voltaire’s Vision and Revision of the FrondeSECTION II – Filtering Natural Disasters Jenny Mander. The Antilles, the Natural History of Hurricanes and Earthquakes, the Seven Years’ War and Global Commerce through the Lens of Abbé Raynal’s Histoire philosophique et politique des deux Indes Laurence Macé. (Ré)inventer le Vésuve, modéliser la catastrophe, vivre la tourmente: Dupaty en Italie méridionale à la veille de la RévolutionSíofra Pierse. Voltaire and the Lisbon Disaster: From Aftershocks to AtaraxySECTION III – Instability and MemoryCyril Francès. Poétique de l’émotion populaire dans les Tableaux historiques de la Révolution française de Nicolas Chamfort Adam Schoene. Turmoil and Corruption in Joséphine de Monbart’s Lettres tahitiennesErin-Marie Legacey. Disorder and the Dead in Revolutionary ParisSECTION IV – Sade and Female MarginalisationEdward T. O’Sullivan. Fictional Turmoil: The Bloodlust of Women in Sadean Libertine NarrativesShasha Ma. L’Insécurité du sexe féminin: de l’infanticide au féminicide chez SadeSECTION V – Resilience post TurmoilSimon Davies. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: le solitaire engagé Gabriel-Robert Thibault. La Résistance spirituelle dans la France des philosophesEmma M. Dunne. ‘A moi! A un proscrit! A un malheureux fugitif!’: Isabelle de Charrière’s Emigré-e-s amid the Turmoil of ExileJohn Leigh. Revolutionary Upheaval and Domestic Turmoil in Beaumarchais’s unsung play La Mère coupableNotes on ContributorsBibliography of Works CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisWilliam Gilbert, poet, theosophist and astrologer, published The Hurricane: A Theosophical and Western Eclogue in Bristol in 1796, while he was on intimate terms with key members of Bristol literary culture: Coleridge published an extract from The Hurricane in his radical periodical The Watchman; Robert Southey wrote of the poem’s ‘passages of exquisite Beauty’; and William Wordsworth praised and quoted a long passage from Gilbert’s poem in The Excursion. The Hurricane is a copiously annotated 450 line blank verse visionary poem set on the island of Antigua where, in 1763, Gilbert was born into a slave-owning Methodist family. The poem can be grouped with other apocalyptic poems of the 1790s—Blake’s Continental Prophecies, Coleridge's Religious Musings, Southey's Joan of Arc—all of which gave a spiritual interpretation to the dramatic political upheavals of their time. William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism presents the untold story of Gilbert’s progress from the radical occultist circles of 1790s London to his engagement with the first generation Romantics in Bristol. At the heart of the book is the first modern edition of The Hurricane, fully annotated to reveal the esoteric metaphysics at its core, followed by close interpretative analysis of this strange elusive poem.Trade Review'Paul Cheshire is unquestionably the world authority on William Gilbert and The Hurricane. Based on extensive original research, this ground-breaking study will return Gilbert to the forefront of critical attention, locating him in relation to more famous contemporaries and setting-out for the first time his esoteric brand of Romanticism and its many affinities with more familiar Romantic authors and texts, ideas and concepts. Presenting its key text—The Hurricane—in full at its centre, the book fills a conspicuous gap in current understandings and opens numerous new avenues for further research.'Nicholas Roe, Wardlaw Professor of English Literature, University of St Andrews 'This is an unusual book about an unusual man. In his engagingly written, intensively researched study of the life and work of William Gilbert, Paul Cheshire illuminates the hermetic vision underpinning Gilbert’s allegorical poem The Hurricane, and widens its scope to explore the influence of western esoteric thought on the imagination of the Romantic poets in a manner which touches on issues still alive and vital in our own transitional times.'Lindsay Clarke, Whitbread Prize-winning author of The Chymical Wedding and The Water Theatre'William Gilbert was a leading member of the utopian, apocalyptic and artistic movement of the 1790s, a remarkable period in British – and European – history. He was a major influence on the Romantic poets, and his presence is felt in Coleridge’s masterpiece, Kubla Khan. Paul Cheshire’s remarkable biography brings this forgotten genius to life, restoring him to his proper place in our artistic and radical history.' Nicholas Campion, Associate Professor in Cosmology and Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David'Other scholars have worked on The Hurricane and William Gilbert; Cheshire’s account draws on their work and goes a considerable way beyond it (not least in considering the horrors of slavery in this context). The fascination of this neglected figure is made plain, as are the critical implications of a work with both esoteric roots and Romantic repercussions.' Michael Caines, Times Literary Supplement ‘Cheshire makes an admirable case for remembering Gilbert… [a] tantalizing study.’ Christy Edwall, The Wordsworth Circle'Paul Cheshire has done us a service in providing here not only a book that places the poem [The Hurricane] in its cultural and historical milieu but a fully annotated scholarly edition of the poem itself. It is an important new contribution to the expanding literature on Romanticism in Bristol and comes highly recommended. For both its language and its themes, The Hurricane is a poem well worth revisiting.' Steve Poole, The Regional Historian'A provocative and illuminating study of William Gilbert… We may hope that Cheshire’s indefatigable and imaginative research will continue to help us rediscover the eccentric and fearless genius who proudly declared: “I am not understood. ’Tis well. / I understand myself. It is better.”' Marsha Keith Schuchard, Common Knowledge'William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism provides an excellent basis for further scholarly work, both on Gilbert, and on the esoteric in Romantic culture more generally.'Jacob Lloyd, The BARS Review‘Cheshire’s readings transform Gilbert’s poem from something inscrutable to something deeply interesting… Cheshire makes a compelling case that “esoterism” is important but overlooked in all the Romantics, expanding how they may be read. The book further expands the geographies of Romanticism through its attention to the sea and Antigua as crucial sites for revolutionary thinking.’ Lawrence Evalyn, Eighteenth-Century FictionTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart One: William Gilbert in Romantic Culture1. A Magus of the 1790s: William Gilbert in Bristol and London2. Bristol and the First Romantics3. ‘With no unholy madness’: Gilbert and Coleridge4. ‘My astrological friend’: Gilbert and Southey5. The Calenture: Gilbert and WordsworthPart Two: The HurricaneThe Hurricane a Theosophical and Western Eclogue. To which is subjoined, A Solitary Effusion in a Summer’s Evening. 6. The Hurricane and Hermetic Geography7. Decoding the Allegory of the ‘Theosophical and Western Eclogue’8. Son of a Saintly Slave OwnerPart Three: Conclusion 9. Esoteric RomanticismBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis two-volume edited collection illuminates the valuable counter-canon of Irish women’s playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and practitioners. Covering three hundred years of Irish theatre history from 1716 to 2016, it is the most comprehensive study of plays written by Irish women to date. These short essays provide both a valuable introduction and innovative analysis of key playtexts, bringing renewed attention to scripts and writers that continue to be under-represented in theatre criticism and performance.Volume One covers plays by Irish women playwrights written between 1716 to 1992, and seeks to address and redress the historic absence of Irish female playwrights in theatre histories. Highlighting the work of nine women playwrights from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as thirteen of the twentieth century’s key writers, the chapters in this volume explore such varied themes as the impact of space and place on identity, women’s strategic use of genre, and theatrical responses to shifts in Irish politics and culture.CONTRIBUTORS: Conrad Brunström, David Clare, Thomas Conway, Marguérite Corporaal, Mark Fitzgerald, Shirley-Anne Godfrey, Úna Kealy, Sonja Lawrenson, Cathy Leeney, Marc Mac Lochlainn, Kate McCarthy, Fiona McDonagh, Deirdre McFeely, Megan W. Minogue, Ciara Moloney, Justine Nakase, Patricia O'Beirne, Kevin O'Connor, Ciara O'Dowd, Clíona Ó Gallchoir, Anna Pilz, Emilie Pine, Ruud van den Beuken, Feargal WhelanTrade Review'Spanning from the eighteenth-century to the present day, The Golden Thread brings together the work of leading scholars in Irish theatre and women’s writing with that of theatre practitioners to recover the often-hidden contributions of women playwrights. The collection develops a counter-canon of Irish playwrights that examines issues of class, sexuality, and disability.'Colleen English, The New Books Network'This is one of those indispensable works that will influence the future of performance studies and feminist criticism. The number and variety of voices on display, the effort in the reconstruction of the canon by adding women playwrights who had been erased in the past, and the declared ambition to draw attention to and create the conditions for revivals and publications of plays created by contemporary women playwrights make this extensive compilation more than recommendable. [....] All in all, a very enjoyable edition, which makes for a rewarding read and provides essential information.'María Gaviña-Costero, Estudios Irlandeses'In a word, The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, 1716–2016... is superb. This two-volume collection showcases writers familiar and less familiar, offers valuable context and incisive textual readings, attends to performance as well as stagecraft, and ranges among historical periods and critical approaches.'Prof. Paige Reynolds, English Studies‘The Golden Thread is an ambitious, richly textured and multifaceted research piece that opens up the field of Irish theatre studies in most fruitful ways. It offers a robust counteracting to the under-representation of Irish women playwrights in the canon and is a strong incentive for producers to revive their work… a most valuable book for anyone interested in Irish studies, in Irish theatre studies and also for anyone interested in an alternative history of Irish theatre.’ Hélène Lecossois, Études irlandaisesTable of ContentsIntroductionDavid Clare, Fiona McDonagh & Justine Nakase“There’s no Place like old England”: Space and Identity in Mary Davys’s The Northern Heiress; Or, the Humours of York (1716)Marguérite Corporaal“Some tender scenes demand the melting tear”: Frances Sheridan’s The Discovery (1763) and the Vindication of “Sentimental Comedy”Conrad BrunströmIrish Wit on the London Stage: Elizabeth Griffith’s The Platonic Wife (1765)Clíona Ó GallchoirDeceptive Disabilities in Maria Edgeworth’s The Double Disguise (1786): Irish Patriotism, Consumption, and the Martial Male BodySonja LawrensonReimagining Maria Edgeworth’s The Knapsack (1801) for a Contemporary Young AudienceFiona McDonagh & Marc Mac LochlainnMary Balfour’s Kathleen O’Neil (1814): An Expression or Betrayal of Her Ulster Scots Background?David ClareJustice and the “Triple Goddess” Archetypes in Anna Maria Hall’s Mabel’s Curse (1837)Ciara MoloneyOperas without a Hero: A Comic Trilogy (1876–1879) by Elena Norton and Mary HeyneMark Fitzgerald“Petticoats!—petticoats! petticoats!”: Sartorial Economics in Clotilde Graves’s A Mother of Three (1896)Justine NakaseFrom Gort to Antarctica: Lady Gregory’s Audiences and The Rising of the Moon (1903)Anna PilzLady Gregory’s Grania (1912): Myth and MythologyShirley-Anne Godfrey“You have let the play go to pieces”: Geraldine Cummins and Susanne R. Day’s Fox and Geese (1917) and the Hegemony of the Early Abbey TheatreThomas Conway“Something left over from the Eighteenth Century, undergoing a slow process of decay”: The Impotence of the Ascendancy in Mary Manning’s Youth’s the Season–? (1931)Ruud van den BeukenShape Shifting the Silence: An Analysis of Talk Real Fine, Just Like a Lady (2017) by Amanda Coogan in Collaboration with Dublin Theatre of the Deaf, an Appropriation of Teresa Deevy’s The King of Spain’s Daughter (1935)Úna Kealy & Kate McCarthyThe Premiere Staging of Mount Prospect (1940) by Elizabeth Connor (the Pen Name of Una Troy) at the Abbey TheatreCiara O’DowdCorruption and Socio-Political Tensions in Christine Longford’s Tankardstown (1948)Kevin O’ConnorSocial Class, Space, and Containment in 1950s Ireland: Maura Laverty’s “Dublin Trilogy” (1951–1952)Cathy Leeney & Deirdre McFeelyMáiréad Ní Ghráda’s An Triail/On Trial (1964): Hiding Hypocrisy in Plain SightFeargal WhelanChristina Reid: Acts of Memory in Tea in a China Cup (1983), The Belle of the Belfast City (1989), and My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name (1989)Emilie PineAnne Devlin: Depicting a Gendered Journey: Men and Women on The Long March (1984)Megan W. MinogueA Partial Eclipse: The Role of the Religious in Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed (1988 / 1992)Patricia O’BeirneCoda – What the Woman Sees: Waking Up to Feminist AestheticsCathy Leeney

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Book SynopsisWritten by one of the editors of the new complete works of Henry Vaughan, Keeping the Ancient Way is the first book-length study of the poet by a single author for twenty years. It deals with a number of key topics that are central to the understanding and appreciation of this major seventeenth-century writer. These include his debt to the hermetic philosophy espoused by his twin brother (the alchemist, Thomas Vaughan); his royalist allegiance in the Civil War; his loyalty to the outlawed Church of England during the Interregnum; the unusual degree of intertextuality in his poetry (especially with the Scriptures and the devotional lyrics of George Herbert); and his literary treatment of the natural world (which has been variously interpreted from Christian, proto-Romantic, and ecological perspectives). Each of the chapters is self-contained and places its topic in relation to past and current critical debates, but the book is organized so that the biographical, intellectual, and political focus of Part One informs the discussion of poetic craftsmanship in Part Two. A wealth of historical information and close critical readings provide an accessible introduction to the poet and his period for students and general readers alike. The up-to-date scholarship will also be of interest to specialists in the literature and history of the Civil War and Interregnum.Trade Review'Keeping the Ancient Way is the first book-length study of Henry Vaughan in nearly two decades and will take its place among the finest studies of the poet. [...] The book’s strength is its focus on biography and intellectual and political history in the first part and poetic craftsmanship in the second. This context provides the framework for critical readings that will be of interest to specialists in the literature and history of the Civil War and Interregnum and will be invaluable to students of Henry and Thomas Vaughan alike. Keeping the Ancient Way is a great achievement.'Donald R. Dickson, Seventeenth-Century News Table of ContentsIntroductionPart One: Biographical and Historical Contexts1. Henry Vaughan and Breconshire2. Henry Vaughan and Thomas Vaughan3. Henry Vaughan and the Civil Wars4. Henry Vaughan and the Interregnum5. Henry Vaughan and the ChurchPart Two: Literary Practices6. Henry Vaughan and the Art of Allusion7. Henry Vaughan and George Herbert8. Henry Vaughan and the Scriptures9. Henry Vaughan and the Book of Nature10. Henry Vaughan and the Practice of PoetryEpilogue

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Book SynopsisLiminal periods in politics often serve as points in time when traditional methods and principles organizing society are disrupted. These periods of interregnum may not always result in complete social upheaval, but they do open the space to imagine social and political change in diverse forms. In Queering the Enlightenment: kinship and gender in the literature of eighteenth-century France, Tracy Rutler uncovers how numerous canonical authors of the 1730s and 40s were imagining radically different ways of organizing the masses during the early years of Louis XV’s reign. Through studies of the literature of Antoine François Prévost, Claude Crébillon, Pierre de Marivaux, and Françoise de Graffigny among others, Rutler demonstrates how the heteronormative bourgeois family’s rise to dominance in late-eighteenth-century France had long been contested within the fictional worlds of many French authors. The utopian impulses guiding the fiction studied in this book distinguish these authors as some of the most brilliant political theorists of the day. Enlightenment, for these authors, means reorienting one’s relation to power by reorganizing their most intimate relations. Using a practice of reading queerly, Rutler shows how these works illuminate the unparalleled potential of queer forms of kinship to dismantle the patriarchy and help us imagine what might eventually take its place.Trade Review‘Combining psychoanalysis and structuralism with political theory, Rutler offers a different way to read canonical eighteenth-century texts by focusing on narrative substitutions for heteronormative familial relations. The interpretations of the texts are not necessarily new ones, but the journey to get to them is… [Queering the Enlightenment] is a fascinating and valuable contribution to the field.’ Antoinette Sol, L’Esprit Créateur‘One of the many merits of this excellent study is Rutler’s demonstration that fiction thinks politically: these texts, even when not explicitly political, create a world in which sexuality, kinship, and desire play out in non-normative ways, permitting writers and their readers to test out and vicariously experience important political problems beyond the confines of a patriarchal framework… Rutler’s exciting and innovative study speaks to enduring and contemporary concerns, and will undoubtedly be read, enjoyed, and discussed by students and scholars alike.’ Thomas Wynn, French Studies

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Book SynopsisEighteenth-Century Women’s Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution argues that Methodism in the eighteenth century was a media event that uniquely combined and utilized different types of media to reach a vast and diverse audience. Specifically, it traces particular cases of how evangelical and Methodist discourse practices interacted with major cultural and literary events during the long eighteenth century, from the rise of the novel through the Revolution controversy of the 1790s to the shifting ground for women writers leading up to the Reform era in the 1830s. The book maps the religious discourse patterns of Methodism onto works by authors like Samuel Richardson, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, Elizabeth Hamilton, Mary Tighe, and Felicia Hemans. This provides not only a better sense of the religious nuances of these authors’ better-known works, but also a fuller consideration of the wide variety of genres in which women were writing during the period, many of which continue to be read as ‘non-literary’. The scope of the book leads the reader from the establishment of evangelical forms of discourse in the 1730s to the natural ends of these discourse structures during the era of reform, all the while pointing to ways in which women – Methodist and otherwise – modified these discourse patterns as acts of resistance or subversion.Trade ReviewReviews ‘This is an excellent, multi-layered, subtle and innovative reading of religious culture in the long eighteenth century. It points the way to the development of religious history/literary criticism, and will become a key text for our understanding not only of Methodism but of the ways in which religious discourse might be contextualised and read as part of larger cultural shifts.’Dr Felicity James, Associate Professor in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Leicester'One of the more broadly appealing achievements of this book is to map the ways in which eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Methodist women, in their fascinating publishing practices, illuminating editorial experiences, and in the very ideas and expression of their writing, resisted, adopted, and variously navigated their way around ‘a proper and regulated discursive space for women’s enthusiastic religion in British life'.Fiona Macdonald, Wesley and Methodist Studies‘....Winckles writes about both women’s writing and Methodism with learning and ease. His thesis builds on other recent—indeed, pioneering—scholarship on dissenting women in the period by deepening that scholarly trajectory through careful manuscript work in overlooked archival sources, especially in the burgeoning field of life writing.’ Jeffrey W. Barbeau, Women's Writing‘This volume’s reassessment of Methodist media through manuscript culture, women’s life-writing and scribal publication – a vibrant interdisciplinary paradigm – sharpens our understanding of the romantic world, elevates figures who have languished for far too long, and continues to decenter and redefine our understanding of romanticisms in unpredictable and exciting ways. Elizabeth Bishop, Romantic Circles ‘While the mainstream Methodism of the nineteenth century slowed down the Methodist media revolution, Winckles’s rigor and enthusiasm revives it.’ Rebecca Nesvet, ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830'Winckles [...] uses Methodist women’s manuscript circulation to overhaul the field of Romanticism. [...] Winckles’s ambitious argument and thoroughly researched conclusions are mesmerizingly provocative. [...] One of the very welcome contributions Winckles makes to the field of “long” eighteenth-century women’s writing is his insistence on the value of recovering very specifically the “life-writing” of religious women [...] showing how vibrant and diverse the theological differentiation among members of a given religious community could be. [...] a sea change has occurred in the scholarly recognition of the deep resonances and complications among religious networks, eighteenth-century literature, and global feminism.'Samara Cahill, Eighteenth Century FictionTable of Contents1. Hunting the Methodist Vixen: Methodism and the Eighteenth-Century Media Revolution2. An Overview of Methodist Discourse Culture, 1738-17913. The Secret Textual History of Pamela, Methodist4. Mary Wollstonecraft, Hester Ann Rogers, and the Textual/Sexual Enthusiasms of Women’s Life Writing5. The Shifting Discourse Culture of Methodism, 1791-18216. Sally Wesley, the Evangelical Bluestockings, and the Regulation of Enthusiasm7. Agnes Bulmer, Felicia Hemans, and Poetry as Theology8. Evangelicalism, Mediation, and Social Change

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Book SynopsisMaterial Transgressions reveals how Romantic-era authors think outside of historical and theoretical ideologies that reiterate notions of sexed bodies, embodied subjectivities, isolated things, or stable texts. The essays gathered here examine how Romantic writers rethink materiality, especially the subject-object relationship, in order to challenge the tenets of Enlightenment and the culture of sensibility that privileged the hegemony of the speaking and feeling lyric subject and to undo supposedly invariable matter, and representations of it, that limited their writing, agency, knowledge, and even being. In this volume, the idea of transgression serves as a flexible and capacious discursive and material movement that braids together fluid forms of affect, embodiment, and textuality. The texts explored offer alternative understandings of materiality that move beyond concepts that fix gendered bodies and intellectual capacities, whether human or textual, idea or thing. They enact processes – assemblages, ghost dances, pack mentality, reiterative writing, shapeshifting, multi-voiced choric oralities – that redefine restrictive structures in order to craft alternative modes of being in the world that can help us to reimagine materiality both in the Romantic period and now. Such dynamism not only reveals a new materialist imaginary for Romanticism but also unveils textualities, affects, figurations, and linguistic movements that alter new materialism’s often strictly ontological approach.List of contributors: Kate Singer, Ashley Cross, Suzanne L. Barnett, Harriet Kramer Linkin, Michael Gamer, Katrina O’Loughlin, Emily J. Dolive, Holly Gallagher, Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, Mary Beth Tegan, Mark Lounibos, Sonia Hofkosh, David Sigler, Chris Washington, Donelle Ruwe, Mark Lussier.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Living in a New Material WorldKate Singer, Ashley Cross, and Suzanne L. BarnettI. Textual EmbodimentsDestabilizing Materiality Through Manuscript Culture in Blake, Coleridge, and TigheHarriet Kramer Linkin Affect in the Margins: Marking Readers in the Elegiac SonnetsMichael Gamer and Katrina O’LoughlinRemapping the Printed Page in Women’s Post-Waterloo PoetryEmily DoliveVibrant Art on the Grand Tour in Anna Jameson’s Diary of an EnnuyéeHolly GallagherII. Transgressive ThingsHester Stanhope, 'Un être à part': Material Transgression and Belonging in the EastJillian Heydt-Stevenson‘The Redundancy of Copious Nothings': Fictional Offspring and the Reproductions of Female VanityMary Beth TeganRevolutionary Objects in Elizabeth Inchbald’s Nature and ArtMark LounibosDancing with Ghosts in 'Isabella; or The Pot of Basil'Sonia HofkoshIt’s the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Queer: Mary Shelley, Affect, and Shapeshifting through The Last ManKate SingerIII. Materialities Sexual & AnimalVoices against the Universe: Material Transgressions in the Blakean MultiverseMark LussierJohn Barnet and the Materiality of Desire in James Hogg’s Justified SinnerDavid SiglerPhantasmion, or the Confessions of a Female Opium EaterDonelle RuweWerewolf Wollstonecraft: homo homini lupus, or Romantic Beast WarsChris Washington

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Book SynopsisEn un siècle marqué par d’incessantes querelles théologiques et d’innombrables conflits armés, auxquels s’ajoutent des tensions entre l’Église, l’État et le parti des « Philosophes », les correspondances constituent un lieu privilégié pour observer les mécanismes de surveillance. De fait, parmi les lettré·es du dix-huitième siècle, la communication épistolaire s’inscrit au cœur de la vie quotidienne. Familière avec cette surveillance, l’élite des Lumières s’amuse d’ailleurs souvent des missives décachetées, quand elle ne se moque pas directement des indiscrets, les enjoignant même à poursuivre leur lecture. Documents à la fois publics et privés, littéralement situées au carrefour de toutes les formes d’activités, ces lettres sont parfois détruites, perdues ou oubliées. Alors que certaines demeurent à jamais scellées ou muettes, d’autres font partie du patrimoine littéraire européen. Que ce soit dans des lettres amicales, des correspondances diplomatiques ou dans des rapports de police, on dissimule et (se) surveille. Aussi les huit articles qui composent ce volume proposent-ils une traversée épistolaire du dix-huitième siècle européen en s’intéressant à des personnages oubliés ou célèbres, voire à des inconnus, qui tous ont dû écrire leurs correspondances en surveillant ou en se sachant épiés. -- In a century marked by innumerable armed conflicts and incessant theological quarrels, including tensions between the Church, the State and the Philosophes, literary correspondence provides a privileged site via which to examine the mechanisms of surveillance. Epistolary communication was at the heart of daily life among the eighteenth-century literati. Familiar with methods of surveillance, the Enlightenment elite often amused themselves by sending unsealed missives, or else directly mocked those with prying eyes, even urging them to continue reading. Both public and private documents, located at the crossroads of all forms of activity, these letters have at times been destroyed, lost or forgotten. While some remain forever sealed or silenced, others form part of Europe's literary heritage. Whether in letters between friends, diplomatic correspondence or police reports, one conceals and surveils oneself. The eight articles that constitute this volume offer an epistolary journey through eighteenth-century Europe by focusing on forgotten or famous people, even unknowns, all of whom must have written their correspondence while watching or knowing that they were being watched.Table of ContentsSébastien Côté et Sébastien Drouin, ‘Secrets et surveillance dans les correspondances du long dix-huitième siècle’ Jörg Ulbert, ‘Le chiffre diplomatique français au dix-huitième siècle’ Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, ‘“Notre style n’est bon que pour nous et pour les commis des postes”: Catherine II de Russie et la surveillance des correspondances’ Mélinda Caron, ‘La Correspondance littéraire et son secret: enjeux sociaux, affectifs et philosophiques’ Ann-Marie Hansen, ‘Trois modes de secret stratégique épistolaire dans l’échange autour des Lettres choisies de Pierre Bayle (1714)’ Dorothy P. Arthur, ‘Les femmes auteurs et la rançon de la célébrité dans les années 1750: trois études de cas’ Sophie Rothé, ‘“L’écriture à la lilliputienne”: Sade captif, un épistolier sous surveillance dans les prisons d’État’ Myriam Deniel-Ternant, ‘Les suppliques des ecclésiastiques trouvés en flagrant délit chez les prostituées parisiennes: réponse et instrument de la surveillance policière’ Martina Chumova, ‘Problèmes de santé masculine et secrets angoissants à la fin du dix-huitième siècle: étude de cas d’un bourgeois dans une situation délicate’

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Book SynopsisDuring the eighteenth century there was a growing interest in recording, listing and documenting the world, whether for personal interest and private consumption, or general record and the greater good. Such documentation was done through both the written and printed word. Each genre had its own material conventions and spawned industries which supported these practices. This volume considers writing and printing in parallel: it highlights the intersections between the two methods of communication; discusses the medium and materiality of the message; considers how writing and printing were deployed in the construction of personal and cultural identities; and explores the different dimensions surrounding the production, distribution and consumption of private and public letters, words and texts during the eighteenth-century. In combination the chapters in this volume consider how the processes of both writing and printing contributed to the creation of cultural identity and taste, assisted in the spread of knowledge and furthered personal, political, economic, social and cultural change in Britain and the wider-world. This volume provides an original narrative on the nature of communication and brings a fresh perspective on printing history, print culture and the literate society of the Enlightenment.Trade Review"An intelligently constructed volume; a fine collection that is both readable and enjoyable."Professor Aileen Douglas, School of English, Trinity College Dublin'The general editors of the series… hope that these publications will further promote further innovative and an interdisciplinary approach to global eighteenth-century studies... Their aim has certainly been achieved in Pen, Print and Communication, a well-produced, enlightening, and attractively illustrated volume.'Rory T Cornish, Journal of British Studies'Highly recommended as an introduction to the important topic of the rich and complex roles of handwriting and print in the social and cultural melting-pot of the eighteenth century.' John Hinks, Midland HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction, Caroline Archer-Parré and Malcolm Dick 1. The Growth of Copperplate Script: Joseph Champion and The Universal Penman, Nicolas Barker 2. Authorship in script and print: the example of engraved handwriting manuals of the eighteenth century, Giles Bergel 3.Writing and the preservation of cultural identity: the penmanship manuals of Zaharija Orfelin, Persida Lazarević Di Giacomo 4. ‘The most beautiful hand’: John Byrom and the aesthetics of shorthand, Timothy Underhill 5. An Archaeology of the Letter Writing: the correspondence of aristocratic women in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England, Ruth Larsen 6. Private pleasures and portable presses: do-it-yourself printers in the eighteenth-century, Caroline Archer-Parré 7. Performance and print culture: two eighteenth-century actresses and their image control, Joanna Jarvis 8. Script, print, and the public/private divide: Sir David Ochterlony’s dying words, Callie Wilkinson 9. Identity, enigma, assemblage: John Baskerville’s Vocabulary, or Pocket Dictionary, Lynda Muggleston 10. Marigolds not manufacturing: plants, print and commerce in eighteenth-century Birmingham, Elaine Mitchell 11. Tourist Experience and the Manufacturing Town: James Bisset’s Magnificent Directory of Birmingham, Jenni Dixon 12. Forging an identity on the periphery of the Enlightenment: Malta in print in the eighteenth-century, Robert Thake 13. Perceptions of England: the production and reception of English theatrical publications in Germany and the Netherlands during the eighteenth century, Emil Rybczak 14. Print Culture and Distribution: Circulating the Federalist Papers in post-Revolutionary America, Peter Pellizzari 15. The serif-less letters of John Soane, Jon Melton Notes on the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisComedy and Crisis contains the first ever scholarly English translation of Pieter Langendijk’s Quincampoix, or the Wind Traders [Quincampoix of de Windhandelaars], and Harlequin Stock-Jobber [Arlequin Actionist]. The first play is a full-length satirical comedy, and the second is a short, comic harlequinade; both were written in Dutch in response to the speculative financial crisis or bubble of 1720 and were performed in Amsterdam in the fall of 1720, as the bubble in the Netherlands was bursting. Comedy and Crisis also contains our translation of the extensive apparatus prepared by C.H.P. Meijer (Introduction and notes) for his 1892 edition of these plays. The current editors have updated the footnotes and added six new critical essays by contemporary literary and historical scholars that contextualize the two plays historically and culturally. The book includes an extensive bibliography and index. The materials assembled in Comedy and Crisis are a rich resource for cultural, historical, and literary students of the history of finance and of eighteenth-century studies.Trade Review'In providing us with Lengendijk’s plays in English translation and with scholarly commentary, Goggin and De Bruyn have made a contribution to Mennonite studies as well as to the wider scholarly world.'Keith L. Sprunger, The Mennonite Quarterly Review 'Comedy and Crisis, with illustrations that are illuminating here and there, provides a multifaceted overview and insight into the (inter)national context in which within which we must place and understand Langendijk's texts.’ Anna de Haas, The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History Translated from Dutch, ‘Comedy and Crisis, met hier en daar verhelderende illustraties, een veelzijdig overzicht van en inzicht in de (inter)nationale context waarbinnen we de teksten van Langendijk moeten plaatsen en begrijpen.’'The wealth of knowledge that these essays bring together around the two pieces is impressive. They show that research at the intersection of cultural and literary history on the one hand and economic history on the other has been very productive in recent years... Hopefully, with this publication, international interest will reach a new peak.' Kornee van der Haven, Low Countries Historical Review Translated from Dutch, 'De rijkdom aan kennis die deze essays rond de twee stukken samenbrengen is indrukwekkend. Ze laten zien dat het onderzoek op het snijvlak van cultuur- en literatuurgeschiedenis enerzijds en economische geschiedenis anderzijds de afgelopen jaren heel productief is geweest... Hopelijk zal die internationale interesse met deze publicatie een nieuw hoogtepunt beleven.'

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Book SynopsisEducating the Romantic Poets: Life and Learning in the Anglo-Classical Academy, 1770-1850 explores how the public and endowed grammar schools and the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge trained some of the most important writers, critics, and public figures of the Romantic period. These institutions are recognized here as intentional partners and are discussed collectively as the “Anglo-classical academy”. The book shows how they not only schooled students in “classics, maths, and divinity” but also in accepted social behaviours, cultural values, political beliefs, and literary tastes. In so doing, this academy gave shape to the literature and spirit of the age. By discussing the schools and the universities together and by focusing upon pedagogies and daily life as well as the texts and topics studied, this book shows as no other has done how writers and readers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries became such fluent linguists, skilled prosodists, and perceptive critics. As each chapter explores and comments upon the relational, intellectual, and cultural aspects of the Anglo-classical educational experience, it directs readers’ attention to the ways in which this information can be used to reread texts, reassess certain Romantics’ literary careers, and launch new lines of research.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction England’s Public and Grammar Schools: First Lessons England’s Public and Grammar Schools: Lessons in Grammar, Memory, and Composition England’s Public and Grammar Schools: Lessons in Classical Literature, Rhetoric, Oratory, and Composition Training Religious Instruction and Worship in the Anglo-Classical Academy Oxford and Cambridge in the Romantic Period: “Operose ignorance” or “Good habits, and the principles of virtue and wisdom”? University Life The Curriculum of the English “Confessional” University: Heroes, Shepherds, and “Holding acquaintance with the stars" Pedagogies of Oxford and Cambridge in the Georgian Period The Educators of Oxford and Cambridge in the Georgian Period Leadership at Oxford and Cambridge Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis volume plays on the double meaning of network in German and European Studies: configurations of people, objects, and texts as well as network analysis, the dominant Digital Humanities (DH) method featured in the book. Contributions from art history, history of the book, history, literary studies, and musicology contemplate the strengths and weakness of treating the period 1789-1810 as either continuous with or a departure from the centuries before and after by examining different facets of the longer period 1760-1830. While many chapters investigate German material, nearly all expand into other European cultures and cover important regions, protagonists, objects and constellations of bi-and multilingual life. They intersect Italian, French, and English networks and reach across the Atlantic into New England. The period’s bookends indicate a threshold or terminus for traditions, institutions, and national identities in Europe: marking the French Revolution (and its effects across the continent culminating on the Wars again Napoleon) and at times reactionary responses with delineation of national, regional, or group identities, respectively, and perhaps most pronounced in the aftermath of the Congress of Vienna (1814-15). Overall, the collection of eleven chapters, introduction, and an epilogue explores European cultural histories at the turn of the nineteenth century in a nonlinear manner, that is, by accumulating critical perspectives on people, objects, and texts that test the boundaries of narratives of transmission, organization, and cohesion that often mark scholarly evaluations of this period in European history.Table of ContentsList of figures and tables Preface and acknowledgements Editors’ Note Crystal Hall and Birgit Tautz, Social capital, material cultures, reading: German and European cultural histories between network and narrative around 1800 I. Social Capital Melanie Conroy, French salons as networks, before and after 1800 Mary Helen Dupree, Plappermann’s Wanderjahre: Traveling declamators and knowledge circulation around 1800 Joachim Homann, Luftschiff der Phantasie: Johann Christian Reinhart, Friedrich Schiller, and artistic networks circa 1800 II. Material Cultures Sean Franzel, Serial Inventories Renata Schellenberg, Cultivating contacts: collectors, critics, and the public in eighteenth-century German-speaking Europe Crystal Hall, An eighteenth-century New England library in its European, material context III. Reading Nacim Ghanbari, First Letters Karin Baumgartner, Mapping the nation: foreign travel in Germany 1738–1839 Peter Höyng, A call for a concert of eavesdroppers: Beethoven’s conversation notebooks IV. Expansive Networks Matt Erlin and Melanie Walsh, Social and conceptual networks in eighteenth-century German periodical literature Birgit Tautz, K/Cosmopolit* in Enlightenment journals: of networks and translation Crystal Hall and Birgit Tautz, Epilog: new networks? Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA pioneering exploration of how differences in material textual forms conveyed and altered ideas in diverse but connected parts of the world in a period of exceptional social, political and intellectual change.Technological advances during the long eighteenth century brought new and exciting intellectual exchange between peoples in different parts of the world. Mutual unfamiliarity with textual forms - those sent to as well as received from Europe - also made knowledge transfer unpredictable and problematic.This volume examines how differences in the material production and circulation of textual objects transformed the ways in which knowledge was formulated and received between 1650 and 1850. Essays focus on diverse regions of Britain and Europe, European colonies in the Caribbean and North America, India and East Asia. The volume engages with varied and changing perceptions of China in Europe, the transmission of Christian texts in colonial South Asia, the cross-cultural circulation of natural history and Orientalist knowledge, and the diffusion of the Qu'ran in European Enlightenment libraries.In pursuing global perspectives, thirteen cultural and literary historians, collectively reassess Eurocentric interpretations of a republic of letters, a public sphere, an invention of the self and a reading revolution. They further challenge the extent to which European periodizations of 'the Enlightenment' map onto processes of technological and intellectual change in other regions of the globe.

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Book SynopsisTraherne's voice can be heard as never before. THE TABLET Thomas Traherne [1637? - 1674], a clergyman of the Church of England during the Restoration, was little known until the early twentieth century, when his poetry and Centuries of Meditations were discovered. There have beensince miscellaneous publications of his poetry and devotional writings. The Works of Thomas Traherne brings together all of Traherne's extant works in a definitive, printed edition for the first time. It will include both his published and unpublished works, and his notebooks, presenting them insofar as possible by manuscript, giving due attention to their physical aspects and to their integrity as manuscript books. Volumes II and III make available the Commentaries of Heaven, preserved in one manuscript held at the British Library. Organised topically, it was intended to cover the whole of the alphabet but extends only through `A' and part of `B', with 95prose articles altogether. It possesses the characteristics of a commonplace book, encyclopaedia and dictionary, and contains poetry, meditations, philosophical discourse, and polemic. The unusual range of subjects treated, from `Abhorrence' to `Ant', `Aristotle' to `Atom', shows Traherne to be an imaginative and compelling writer in his approach to Christian theology, while maintaining both his integrity and orthodoxy as a priest.Trade ReviewThe Commentaries is a huge work that is absolutely essential for students and scholars of Traherne. This is the first time it has been published in its entirety, and its publication will undoubtedly spark new explorations into Traherne's work. [...] Ross's project as a whole is an exciting prospect for Traherne scholars, but the publication of the Commentaries alone is a monumental achievement and one that will be of tremendous significance. * SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS *Table of ContentsIntroduction List of Topics Commentaries of Heaven Textual Emendations Appendices Glossary

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Book SynopsisA new source for Shakespeare's plays, only recently uncovered, is investigated here with a full edition and facsimile of the text. New sources for Shakespeare do not turn up every day... This is a truly significant one that has not heretofore been studied or published. The list of passages now traced back to this source is impressive. - David Bevington, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago "A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" is the only uniquely existent, unpublished manuscript that can be shown to have been a source for Shakespeare's plays. George North wrote the treatise in 1576 while at Kirtling Hall, the North family estate in Cambridgeshire. His manuscript, newly uncovered by the authors at the British Library, has many implications for our understanding of Shakespeare's plays. for example, not only does it bring clarity to the Fool's mysterious reference to Merlin in King Lear, but also upsets the prevailing opinion that Shakespeare invented the final hours of Jack Cade in 2 Henry VI. Linguistic and thematic correspondences between the North manuscript and Shakespeare's plays make it clear that the playwright borrowed from this document in other plays as well, including Richard III, 3 Henry VI, Henry V, King John, Macbeth, and Coriolanus. The opening chapters of the book investigate such connections; the volume also contains both a transcript and a facsimile of "A Brief Discourse", making this previously unknown document readily available. DENNIS MCCARTHY is an independent scholar; JUNE SCHLUETER is Charles A. Dana Professor Emerita of English at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania.Trade ReviewFor years scholars have debated what inspired William Shakespeare's writings. Now, with the help of software typically used by professors to nab cheating students, two writers have discovered an unpublished manuscript they believe the Bard of Avon consulted to write King Lear, Macbeth, Richard III, Henry and seven other plays. The news has caused Shakespeareans to sit up and take notice. 'If it proves to be what they say it is, it is a once-in-a-generation - or several generations - find,' said Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. * NEW YORK TIMES *In 1576, English diplomat George North wrote a treatise on rebellion that for almost 450 years went largely unnoticed. . . . McCarthy and Schlueter provide a thorough overview of the history and provenance of the manuscript, along with compelling explanations about how it influenced Shakespeare's plays. Most helpful is the inclusion of the entire North manuscript in an oversize and easy-to-read format. Highly recommended. x * NEW YORK TIMES *A Brief Discourse is one of the most exciting recent discoveries in the long history of Shakespeare source study. The editors' argument appears to resolve longstanding textual cruxes around Cade's last hours, Merlin's cryptic prophecy in Lear, and a key speech by Canterbury in Henry V, which sheds light on Gloucester's opening monologue in Richard III, Macbeth's catalogue of dogs, and several other discrete passages within the Shakespeare canon. With considerable credit to Boydell and Brewer and The British Library, the book is also beautifully produced and a pleasure to navigate, from its introductory essay, to the modernized transcription, to the full-color facsimile of the manuscript. * SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL *Table of ContentsGeorge North and the Kirtling Hall Manuscript Uncovering Connections between North's "Discourse" and Shakespeare's Plays The Final Hours of Jack Cade The Fool, Merlin's Prophecy, and the Upside-Down World of King Lear Political Monologues and a Glimpse of Coriolanus Afterword: The Odds That the Parallels Are Coincidental Transcript: "A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" Facsimile: "A brief discourse of rebellion and Rebells, wherin is showyd, ye treasur yt Traytors in ye execution of theyr treason, by tym attayne to" Index

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Book SynopsisA study of how the use of Ovid in Middle English texts affected Shakespeare's treatment of the poet. The debt owed by Shakespeare to Ovid is a major and important topic in scholarship. This book offers a fresh approach to the subject, in aiming to account for the Middle English literary lenses through which Shakespeare and his contemporaries often approached Greco-Roman mythology. Drawing its principal examples from The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Lucrece, and Twelfth Night, it reinvestigates a selection of moments in Shakespeare's works that have been widely identified in previous criticism as "Ovidian", scrutinising their literary alchemy with an eye to uncovering how ostensibly classical references may be haunted by the under-acknowledged, spectral presences of medieval intertexts and traditions. Its central concern is the mutual hauntings of Ovid, Geoffrey Chaucer, and John Gower in the early modern literary imagination; it demonstrates that "Ovidian" allusions to mythological figures such as Ariadne, Philomela, or Narcissus in Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works were sometimes simultaneously mediated by the hermeneutic and affective legacies of earlier vernacular texts,including The Legend of Good Women, Troilus and Criseyde, and the Confessio Amantis. LINDSAY ANN REID is a Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Galway.Trade ReviewShakespeare and Ovid are a familiar coupling; so too, to medievalists, are Ovid and the medieval; and the pairing of Shakespeare and the medieval is making its presence increasingly felt. * TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE *Scholarly efforts to rethink the once sacrosanct period-divide between late medieval and early modern English culture have been under way for quite some time now, and the Studies in Renaissance Literature series has made several important contributions to these exertions. Lindsay Ann Reid's Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval is the latest-exhibiting the perspicacity, nuance, and scope that we have come to expect from the series. The strength of this study is its dense and challenging close readings of ancient, medieval, and early modern texts. * STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER *Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval is a courageous book rectifying the influential oversights by celebrated critics of a canonical writer. With thorough research and probing insights, Reid corrects a distorted understanding of the culture and traditions informing early modern literature, and of Shakespeare himself. * PARERGON *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chaucer's Ghoast, Ovid's 'Pleasant Fables', and the Spectre of Gower Shakespeare's Ovid and Sly's Chaucer Theseus and Ariadne [and her Sister] Philomela and the Dread of Dawn The Cross-Dressed Narcissus Afterword Appendix 1: The Gowerian Riddles of Chaucer's Ghoast Appendix 2: Ariadne's Desertion in Bulleins Bulwarke of Defence Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA sensitive investigation into how French writers, including Descartes and Racine, treated a central preoccupation in early modern writings. Idolatry was one of the dominant and most contentious themes of early modern religious polemics. This book argues that many of the best-known literary and philosophical works of the French seventeenth century were deeply engaged and concerned with the theme. In a series of case studies and close readings, it shows that authors used the logic of idolatry to interrogate the fractured and fragile relationship between the divine and the human, with particular attention to the increasingly fraught question of the legitimacy of human agency. Reading d'Urfé, Descartes, La Fontaine, Sévigné, Molière, and Racine through the lens of idolatry reveals heretofore hidden aspects of their work, all while demonstrating the link between the emergent autonomy of literature and philosophy and the confessional conflicts that dominated the period. In so doing, Professor McClure illustrates how religion can become a source of interpretive complexity, and how this dynamism can and should be taken into account in early modern French studies and beyond.Trade Review[W]hat makes McClure's case so compelling emerges in her case studies. [...] There follow sensitive yet game-changing readings of Sévigné, Molière, and Racine, with McClure's reading of Phèdre crowning the analysis. One of the subtler qualities of McClure's study is how the readings grow finer as the work advances. * Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme *Table of ContentsNotes on Translations Introduction: The Logic of Idolatry and the Question of Creation Chapter One: Idolatry and Instability in Honoré d'Urfé's L'Astrée Chapter Two: Descartes' Meditations as a Solution to Idolatry Chapter Three: Idolatry and the Questioning of Mastery in La Fontaine's Fables Chapter Four: Idolatry and the Love of the Creature in Sévigné's Letters Chapter Five: Theatrical Idolatry in Molière and Racine Conclusion: The End(s) of Idolatry Acknowledgments Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAn investigation into the remarkable "poetics of the atom" in English literary texts from the mid to late seventeenth century. The early modern "atom" – understood as an indivisible particle of matter – captured the poetic imagination in ways that extended far beyond the reception of Lucretius and Epicurean atomism. Contrarily to fears of atomisation and materialist threat, many poets and philosophers of the period sought positive, spiritual motivation in the concept of material indivisibility. This book traces the metaphysical import of these poetic atoms, teasing out an affinity between poetic and atomic forms in seventeenth-century texts. In the writings of Henry More, Thomas Traherne, Margaret Cavendish, Hester Pulter and Lucy Hutchinson, both atoms and poems were instrumental in acts of creating, ordering and reconstructing knowledge. Their poems emerge as exquisitely self-conscious atomic forms, producing intimate reflections on the creative power and indivisibility of self, soul and God. The book begins with a survey of the imaginative possibilities surrounding the early modern "atom", before considering the indivisible centres of the Cambridge Platonist Henry More's cosmic, Spenserian poetics. The focus then turns to the lyrical bond formed between atom and soul in the writings of Thomas Traherne, and from there, to the experimental sequences of Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter, whose poetic spaces create new worlds and imagine alternative lives. The book concludes with a study of Lucy Hutchinson's creation poem Order and Disorder, which anticipates the regeneration of fallen being in atomic and alchemical terms.Trade Review[A]long with sharpening our understanding of the five poets featured in this study, Gorman's book also promises to help nuance our theoretical approaches to materiality and spirituality more broadly. * Religion and the Arts *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Conventions and Abbreviations Introduction 1. Atomic Congruity: The Philosophical Poetry of Henry More 2. Thomas Traherne's Atoms, Souls and Poems 3. World-Making and World-Breaking: The Atom Poems of Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter 4. The Atom in Genesis: Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder Afterword: A Poetics of the Atom

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Book SynopsisA new exploration of the complexities and resolutions at play in the writings of Marguerite de Navarre, offering insights into how her work reflected the turbulence, uncertainties, and assurances of her historical period. Marguerite de Navarre was a Renaissance princess, diplomat, and mystical poet. She is arguably best known for The Heptameron, an answer to Boccaccio's Decameron, a brilliant and open-ended collection of short stories told by a group of men and women stranded in a monastery. The stories explore love, desire, male and female honour, individual salvation, and the iniquity of Franciscan monks, while the discussions between the storytellers enact and embody the tensions, ideologies, and prejudices underlying the stories. Marguerite herself was deeply involved in the debates and conflicts of her time. Her work reflects the turbulence, uncertainties, and assurances of her historical period, as the Renaissance re-imagined the past and the Reformation re-made the church, and represents her original and sometimes provocative position on these questions. This book presents The Heptameron and its investigations into gender relations, the nature of love, and the nature of religious faith in the context of the intellectual, religious, and political questions of the sixteenth century, setting it alongside Marguerite's other writings: her poetry, plays, and diplomatic letters. In chapters on communities, religion, politics, gender relationships, desire, and literary technique, it explores the complexities and resolutions of Marguerite's writing and her world. It aims to offer a guide to the critical tradition on Marguerite's work along with new readings of her texts, revealing both the historical specificity of her writing and its continuing relevance.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Names and Editions Editions of Reference Introduction: A Brief Literary and Historical Chronology Chapter 1 Communities Chapter 2 Religion Chapter 3 Politics Chapter 4 Women and Men Chapter 5 Desire Chapter 6 Form and Technique Conclusion: Print and Public Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisShakespeare's playwrighting and possibly his directing reflect a consistent intent to explore principles that, in his days, were perceived as foreign to the dramatic idiom. This is evident within the framework of contemporary theatre theories at the time. Eli Rozik's novel reading of the play-scripts provides the classical and synchronic theoretical background required to capture Shakespeare's innovative approach, and is a major contribution to the history of European theatre practice and theory. All of Rozik's earlier publications on theatre practice and theory engage with Shakespeare's play-scripts by example and these insights are re-integrated herein. The result is a new and challenging concept of Shakespeare's contribution to the art of theatre, and to a viewpoint of the Bard as an unprecedented experimental playwright and innovator in all that concerns the mastery of theatre art and, especially, the expansion of its means of expression. The central concern of this study is not the experimentation by modernist and postmodernist directors in producing Shakespeare's play-scripts for diachronic audiences, but with the exploration, experimentation and innovation embodied in the Bard's practice itself, as reflected in the wide artistic and historical range of the play-scripts. Drama and theatre scholarship, with its concomitant comprehensive method of analysis, is indispensable in revealing the nature of the Bard's playwrighting, his historical explorations and theatrical innovations. Rozik's earlier works on the nature of theatre, fictional creativity and origin, best place him to interpret Shakespeare's works against their synchronic theoretical background in the light that experimentation lay at the heart of Shakespeare's creativity.

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Book SynopsisIs there anything more to say on Hamlet? 'Hide fox, and all after,' a casual quip of the Prince, as he and his enemy the King start to hunt each other down, is taken as the title for this closely-considered survey of the play. J D Winter finds question after question in it raised and unanswered, as if the play's dramatic method were in part to create uncertainty in its audience and so draw them in. He adopts three phrases from the text to provide a context for his approach: the play's the thing, a rhapsody of words, and the invisible event. The first phrase suggests the spectacle itself, without regard to what has been written about it. There is no reference to outside opinion nor is another literary work named. The second indicates an awareness of the text as poem. While the tremendous sweep of Shakespearean blank verse, the prose-paragraphs on fire with their own poetry, the whispering gallery of metaphor, can scarcely be accorded proper respect in a prose commentary, certain rhapsodic effects are everywhere noted. Finally, the play is contained within a mystery. So much seems to happen; so little seems to happen. Almost all the major characters are subject to a pattern of error in their dealings as they are swept on from one catastrophic misjudgement to another. The level to which the play is focussed upon the blind time between events is unusually high. This too draws in the audience; it is a part of the spectators own internal experience. There can be no definitive answer to Hamlet or Hamlet. But like a signpost in a swarming mist, the third phrase may offer a faint clue: the invisible event.

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays on Spanish poetry honouring a distinguished British Hispanist. Trevor J. Dadson is a British Hispanist of international distinction whose remarkable scholarly range has resulted in a published output that embraces cultural, literary and social history, textual editing, literacy, book ownership and literary criticism. The twelve essays of the present volume pay tribute to his distinctive interventions in the field of Spanish poetry (early modern and contemporary); collectively they recognize the catalytic role of Professor Dadson's original research while opening up to dialogues beyond it, aiming to inspire new conversations around the topics he has inspired generations of scholars to pursue. Represented in the volume are former doctoralstudents, former colleagues and international collaborators, all of whom are also distinguished authorities in their fields. Javier Letrán is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of St Andrews. Isabel Torres is Professor of Spanish Golden Age Literature at Queen's University Belfast.Table of ContentsContributors Introduction Voicing Time: The Temporal Textures of Garcilaso de la Vega. Luis de León and the Moriscos: a close reading of Ode XXII (La cana y alta cumbre Conde de Salinas: Poesías atribuidas o disputadas Horacio en Quevedo: principios retóricos del arte de la imitación El nuevo Olimpo de Gabriel Bocángel y Aragón Imaging Women: The Portrait Poems of Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán La sublimidad del septentrión: paisajes de la poesía romántica española Antonio Machado as cynic: "Fantasía de una noche de abril" as Pastiche of Espronceda Hamlet without the Prince: Denunciation and Surveillance in Vicent Andrés Estellés's Testimoni d'Horaci Poetry and Crisis in Spain after 2008 Contexto, texto e intertexto en Cuaderno de vacaciones (2014), de Luis Alberto de Cuenca La lírica en los tiempos del neoliberalismo: reflexiones sobre Balada en la muerte de la poesía de Luis García Montero Appendix A : The Publications of Trevor J. Dadson Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEste libro ofrece la primera revisión en forma de volumen monográfico de las transferencias culturales de Gran Bretaña a España en el siglo XVIII. A close reading of the cultural exchanges between England and Spain in the18th century as seen in the periodical press. Este libro ofrece la primera revisión en forma de volumen monográfico de las transferencias culturales de Gran Bretaña a España en el siglo XVIII, centrándose en particular en el género más novedoso del setecientos, la pódica. Para ello, explora el fenómeno hasta ahora difuso de la anglomanía - moda de las ideas, influencias y estilos ingleses que dominó la Europa del setecientos - y su fenómeno opuesto, la anglofobia, en tres tipos de prensa bien diferenciados, todo ello en conjunción con la propia coyuntura nacional y el programa de reformas borbónico. Además, esta obra enfatiza la labor de estos periodistas y periódicos, así como sus conexiones con el poder, a la vez que los sitúa como agentes fundamentales de esa red europea de intercambios materiales e intelectuales que sustentó la República de las Letras. Con todo ello, este volumen contribuye a la serie de debates dedicados a la reevaluación de la Ilustración española que buscan situarla en el mapa de las Luces Europeas de entonces y de ahora. LETICIA VILLAMEDIANA GONZÁLEZ es Profesora Titular en el Departamento de Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Warwick. This book constitutes the first monographic study of the cultural transfers from Great Britain to Spain through 18th-Century periodical press, one of the most innovative genres of the period. It exploresthe notion of anglomania - the craze for all things English which spread throughout all Europe - and its reactive phenomenon, anglophobia, offering a contextualised analysis of the transmission, reception and adaptation of BritishEnlightened ideas and reforms in three different types of Spanish periodicals. In so doing, this volume brings to the fore the work of some understudied writers and journalists and situates these important periodicals and their connections to power as a key part of a wider European context of material and intellectual exchanges that sustained the Republic of Letters. This in turn, contributes to recent scholarship arguing for a central place of Spain in the intellectual map of the Enlightenment. LETICIA VILLAMEDIANA GONZÁLEZ is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Hispanic Studies at the University of Warwick.Table of ContentsIntroducción Anglofilia, anglomanía y anglofobia en la Europa del siglo XVIII La prensa española en el siglo XVIII El espejo inglés: emulación y prensa económica Traducciones, adaptaciones y (re)creaciones en los espectadores españoles Entre filias y fobias: la doble imagen de Inglaterra en la prensa de entresiglos Epílogo Apéndices Bibliografía Índice

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Book SynopsisWho doubts, my reader, that you will be amazed that a woman has the audacity not only to write a book, but to send it for printing, which is the crucible in which the purity of genius is tested'? A pioneer of early modern feminism, María de Zayas y Sotomayor wrote poetry, drama and prose but is best known for two page-turning collections of short stories: Exemplary Tales of Love (1637) and Tales of Disillusion (1647). This book provides an engaging introduction to Zayas and her work. It begins by relating what we know of her life, placing her in her socio-political and economic context and addressing the issue of women's literacy. Following chapters examine her use of sexual desire, violence and humour in her tales; her narrative structures; and her oral style. The book then turns to identity construction in her tales and in society, analysing questions of gender, class, family and 'race', and to her treatment of religion, magic and the supernatural. The final chapters explore Zayas's status as a proto-feminist; her early modern reception in Spain and elsewhere; and various critical readings of her work.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter I: Zayas: Her Life and Times Chapter 2: Exemplary Tales of Love: A Contradiction? Chapter 3: Settings, Styles and Models: Zayas's Literary Context Chapter 4: Turning the Tables on Men in Exemplary Tales of Love Chapter 5: Bodies in Pain: Tales of Disillusion Chapter 6: Identifying the Subject Chapter 7: I Believe: Religion, Magic, the Supernatural Chapter 8: Zayas on Women Conclusion: Zayas's Afterlives Appendix: Plot Summaries

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Book SynopsisWritten by an international group of scholars, this edited collection provides an overview of the Spanish picaresque from its origins in tales of lowborn adventurers to its importance for the modern novel, along with consideration of the debates that the picaresque has inspired. The term picaresque describes a specific set of early modern Spanish narratives relating the life story of a lowborn adventurer in a realist, ironic, and often humorous manner. The protagonist, the picaro or pícara (rascal), seeks upward mobility in a resolutely hierarchical society determined to prevent his - or her - ascent, and both are rich targets of satire. Spanish pícaros inspired Anglo-French rogues including Gil Blas and Tom Jones and paved the way for the modern novel. Written by an international group of scholars, this edited collection provides an overview of the Spanish picaresque novel from its origins to the present day, along with a treatment of the debates that the picaresque has inspired. After introductory chapters on the picaresque genre and the origin of the phenomenon, the book analyses canonical texts and their role in the picaresque spectrum. Further chapters then turn to critical approaches to the genre and manifestations of the picaresque in Hispanic America, France, England, and modern Spain. Overall, the book affords readers a broad sense of the range of this rich tradition and an in-depth view of the field and its major texts.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Forward 1. The Picaresque as a Genre Edward H. Friedman 2. On the Picaresque and Its Origins Anne J. Cruz 3. Francisco Delicado, La lozana andaluza Marta Albalá Pelegrín 4. Lazarillo de Tormes J. A. Garrido Ardila 5. Mateo Alemán, Guzmán de Alfarache Howard Mancing 6. Francisco de Quevedo, La vida del buscón Edward H. Friedman 7. La pícara Justina Brian M. Phillips 8. Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo, La hija de Celestina Enrique García Santo-Tomás 9. Miguel de Cervantes and the Picaresque Vicente Pérez de León 10. Vicente Espinel, Marcós de Obregón John C. Parrack 11. Carlos García, La desordenada codicia de los bienes agenos Antón García-Fernández 12. Estebanillo González Faith S. Harden 13. Critical Approaches to the Picaresque Hilaire Kallendorf 14. The Picaresque in Spanish America José Luis Gastañaga Ponce de León 15. Continuations: France and England Richard Squibbs 16. Continuity of the Picaresque: Spain Andrés Zamora Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive study of Tirso de Molina and his work in English Tirso de Molina (c.1583-c.1648) may not have written El Burlador de Sevilla, but the works of this prolific author, one of the three pillars of Golden Age Spanish theatre, are notable for their erudition, complex characters, and wit. Informed by a multidisciplinary critical perspective, this volume sets Tirso's plays and prose in their social, historical, literary, and cultural contexts. Contributors from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Spain offer a state of the art in current scholarship, considering such topics as gender, identity, spatiality, material culture, and creative performativity, among others. The first volume in English to provide a richly detailed overview of Tirso's life and work, Tirso de Molina: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century grounds the reader in canonical theories while suggesting new approaches, attuned to contemporary interests, to his legacy.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: Reassessing Tirso for a Twenty-First-Century Audience - Esther Fernández PART I. A WORLDLY FRIAR 1. Aligning Contradictions: Tirso de Molina's Life and Works - Esther Fernández 2. A Text with No Name? The Rise and Fall of Tirso's Attribution of El burlador de Sevilla -Alejandro García-Reidy 3. Prose Fiction and Authorial Self-Fashioning: Los cigarrales de Toledo and Deleitar aprovechando - Christopher B. Weimer 4. The Religious Theater of Fray Gabriel Téllez - Alejandra Juno Rodríguez Villar PART II. ANTINORMATIVE IDENTITIES 5. Melancholy Subjects: Pathological Love in the Plays of Tirso de Molina - Emmy Herland 6. "Mozo soy y mozo fuiste": Early Modern Conceptions of Age and Masculinity in El burlador de Sevilla - José R. Cartagena-Calderón 7. All about the Mother in Lessons to the Wise - Judith Caballero 8. To Be and Not to Be: Iterations of Disguise in the Theater of Tirso de Molina - Robert L. Turner III 9. Dressing the Part: Costuming and Material Culture in Tirso de Molina Emily C. Tobey PART III. SOUNDSCAPES AND LANDSCAPES 10. Tirso de Molina: A Musical Meeting of the Minds - Ivy Howell Walters 11. The Figurative Geography of Natural Landscapes in Tirso de Molina - Harrison Meadows 12. Tirso de Molina, Encounters with the New World - Gladys Robalino 13. Tirso Goes Underground - Antonio Guijarro-Donadiós 14. The Impossible Lockdown: Tirso de Molina's Lessons in Domesticity - Noelia S. Cirnigliaro PART IV. UNCONVENTIONAL AFTERLIVES 15. Staging Tirso de Molina in Spain and England (1986- ): Ingenuity or Aberration? - Susan L. Fischer 16. Tirso de Molina in English: Translation for Performance - Kathleen Jeffs 17. Tirso de Molina on Stage: Comedy, Costumes, Chameleons - Harley Erdman 18 . Performing Gender on the English-Language Stage: Tirso's Queer Characters - Sarah Grunnah 19. Dismantling Myths and Repositioning the Other: Tirso de Molina for the 21st Century Classroom - Erin A. Cowling and Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas 20. Tirso de Molina's Critical Panorama (2010-2021) - Ignacio Arellano Ayuso

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Book SynopsisEducated in Scotland and France, George Buchanan became one of the most influential writers of 16th century Europe. Writing in the lingua franca of his time - Classical Latin - he was to be hailed internationally as 'easily the prince of poets'.

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Book SynopsisAmazing & Extraordinary Facts: Shakespeare is a fascinating collection of surprising revelations, quirky characters and other fascinating pieces of trivia from the world of the great English bard. From the stories behind his well-known plays and poems, through the actors and theatres that have entertained his works, to his legacy in popular culture and beyond, an intriguing and unusual history of his life and times is revealed. Drawing back the curtains on this iconic English character, there is something here for every enthusiast to relish. This authoritative and absorbing book is published to coincide with the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s death on 23rd April 2016.Table of Contents1 Introduction 8 2 'Lost years' 12 3 'Upstart crow' 14 4 Becoming the bard 15 5 One last blow 18 6 'Our revels now are ended' 20 7 An unerring eye 22 8 'Farewell to Folly' 24 9 Star of poets 25 10 All the Globe's a stage 26 11 A full house 30 12 American visionary 31 13 Different spectacles 34 14 Makeup concoctions 35 15 Set in stone 37 16 Hand wringing 39 17 Portrait of the bard 40 18 Sought-after item 43 19 Stellar legacy 46 20 Written when? 48 21 Origins of Falstaff 50 22 Bard of bird fanciers 52 23 'Pound of flesh' 54 24 Charge of sexism 57 25 'Lost' plays 59 26 Picture of hysteria 62 27 Shrine to the bard 64 28 Stage dynasty 68 29 First-hand account 70 30 Hell-raiser 72 31 Public scandal 73 32 Disastrous spectacles 76 33 Masonic cabal 78 34 Opposing factions 80 35 The Baconians 81 36 Rivers of blood 84 37 In and out of favour 86 38 Sustained observation 88 39 Advance warning 89 40 The Oxfordians 91 41 Poetic styles 94 42 The Marlovians 95 43 'Noted weed' 99 44 Beloved by Russia 102 45 'Vulgar and barbarous' 105 46 Toe-curling homage 106 47 The silver screen 109 48 At each other's throats 112 49 Subtle shifts 113 50 Five beats to a bar 115 51 Heralding a Golden Age 119 52 'Loathsome as a toad' 122 53 Something borrowed 125 54 Shakespeare Trek 126 55 Inspiring songwriters 127 56 Inspiring wordsmiths 130 57 Playwright for all ages 132 58 Index 136

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