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Book SynopsisThis important new collection explores representations of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers across a range of historical and literary works. While at one time transatlantic studies concentrated predominantly on men’s travels, this volume highlights the resilience of women who ventured voluntarily and by force across the Atlantic—some seeking mobility, adventure, knowledge, wealth, and freedom, and others surviving subjugation, capture, and enslavement. The essays gathered here concern themselves with the fictional and the historical, national and geographic location, racial and ethnic identities, and the configuration of the transatlantic world in increasingly taught texts such as The Female American and The Woman of Colour, as well as less familiar material such as Merian’s writing on the insects of Surinam and Falconbridge’s travels to Sierra Leone. Intersectional in its approach, and with an afterword by Eve Tavor Bannet, this essential collection will prove indispensable as it provides fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts and women’s travel therein across the long eighteenth century. Trade Review"Following historical and fictional women as they journey transatlantically and beyond, this collection offers welcome insight into the many transformations—material and intellectual—produced by travel. For some, the oceanic journey might be revelatory and liberatory; alternatively or simultaneously, it might reproduce exoticization and empire. In presenting a variety of experiences and imaginings, this book is for interdisciplinary scholars of gender and also race, colonialism, and more in the circum-Atlantic eighteenth century." -- Caroline Wigginton * co-editor of Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions *"The strengths of this volume are many. Foremost, its clever organization illuminates the resonances between women travelers in different modes: as historical figures, writers, and characters. Its coverage offers fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts. The combination of these features makes this a useful, indeed indispensable, volume for transatlantic studies." -- Aaron Hanlon * author of A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Tracing the Lives of Transatlantic Women Travelers Misty Krueger Part One: (Pseudo)Historical Women’s Travels 1 “Little Atlas”: Global Travel and Local Preservation in Maria Sybilla Merian’s The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam Diana Epelbaum 2 Thresholds of Livability: Climate and Population Relocation in Anna Maria Falconbridge’s Two Voyages to Sierra Leone Shelby Johnson 3 Transatlantic Female Solidarity: Two Women Social Explorers and Their Views on Nineteenth-Century Latin American Women Grace A. Gomashie 4 “The Fair Daughters Of Terra Nova”: Women in the Settler Cultures of Early Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland Pam Perkins 5 Busty Buccaneers and Sapphic Swashbucklers on the High Seas Ula Lukszo Klein Part Two: Fictional Women’s Travels 6 Gender Performance and the Spectacle of Female Suffering in Samuel Jackson Pratt’s Emma Corbett Jennifer Golightly 7 “That Person Shall Be a Woman”: Matriarchal Authority and the Fantasy of Female Power in The Female American Alexis McQuigge 8 “I Am Disappointed in England”: Reverse-Robinsonades and the Transatlantic Woman as Social Critic in The Woman of Colour Octavia Cox 9 Creole Nationalism, Mobility, and Gendered Politics in Zelica, the Creole Victoria Barnett-Woods 10 Feminine Negotiations within the Colony: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and Phebe Gibbes’ Hartly House Kathleen Morrissey Afterword Eve Tavor Bannet Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis important new collection explores representations of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers across a range of historical and literary works. While at one time transatlantic studies concentrated predominantly on men’s travels, this volume highlights the resilience of women who ventured voluntarily and by force across the Atlantic—some seeking mobility, adventure, knowledge, wealth, and freedom, and others surviving subjugation, capture, and enslavement. The essays gathered here concern themselves with the fictional and the historical, national and geographic location, racial and ethnic identities, and the configuration of the transatlantic world in increasingly taught texts such as The Female American and The Woman of Colour, as well as less familiar material such as Merian’s writing on the insects of Surinam and Falconbridge’s travels to Sierra Leone. Intersectional in its approach, and with an afterword by Eve Tavor Bannet, this essential collection will prove indispensable as it provides fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts and women’s travel therein across the long eighteenth century. Trade Review"Following historical and fictional women as they journey transatlantically and beyond, this collection offers welcome insight into the many transformations—material and intellectual—produced by travel. For some, the oceanic journey might be revelatory and liberatory; alternatively or simultaneously, it might reproduce exoticization and empire. In presenting a variety of experiences and imaginings, this book is for interdisciplinary scholars of gender and also race, colonialism, and more in the circum-Atlantic eighteenth century." -- Caroline Wigginton * co-editor of Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions *"The strengths of this volume are many. Foremost, its clever organization illuminates the resonances between women travelers in different modes: as historical figures, writers, and characters. Its coverage offers fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts. The combination of these features makes this a useful, indeed indispensable, volume for transatlantic studies." -- Aaron Hanlon * author of A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism *"Following historical and fictional women as they journey transatlantically and beyond, this collection offers welcome insight into the many transformations—material and intellectual—produced by travel. For some, the oceanic journey might be revelatory and liberatory; alternatively or simultaneously, it might reproduce exoticization and empire. In presenting a variety of experiences and imaginings, this book is for interdisciplinary scholars of gender and also race, colonialism, and more in the circum-Atlantic eighteenth century." -- Caroline Wigginton * co-editor of Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions *"The strengths of this volume are many. Foremost, its clever organization illuminates the resonances between women travelers in different modes: as historical figures, writers, and characters. Its coverage offers fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts. The combination of these features makes this a useful, indeed indispensable, volume for transatlantic studies." -- Aaron Hanlon * author of A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Tracing the Lives of Transatlantic Women Travelers Misty Krueger Part One: (Pseudo)Historical Women’s Travels 1 “Little Atlas”: Global Travel and Local Preservation in Maria Sybilla Merian’s The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam Diana Epelbaum 2 Thresholds of Livability: Climate and Population Relocation in Anna Maria Falconbridge’s Two Voyages to Sierra Leone Shelby Johnson 3 Transatlantic Female Solidarity: Two Women Social Explorers and Their Views on Nineteenth-Century Latin American Women Grace A. Gomashie 4 “The Fair Daughters Of Terra Nova”: Women in the Settler Cultures of Early Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland Pam Perkins 5 Busty Buccaneers and Sapphic Swashbucklers on the High Seas Ula Lukszo Klein Part Two: Fictional Women’s Travels 6 Gender Performance and the Spectacle of Female Suffering in Samuel Jackson Pratt’s Emma Corbett Jennifer Golightly 7 “That Person Shall Be a Woman”: Matriarchal Authority and the Fantasy of Female Power in The Female American Alexis McQuigge 8 “I Am Disappointed in England”: Reverse-Robinsonades and the Transatlantic Woman as Social Critic in The Woman of Colour Octavia Cox 9 Creole Nationalism, Mobility, and Gendered Politics in Zelica, the Creole Victoria Barnett-Woods 10 Feminine Negotiations within the Colony: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and Phebe Gibbes’ Hartly House Kathleen Morrissey Afterword Eve Tavor Bannet Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe move to a new publisher has given The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual the opportunity to recommit to what it does best: present to a wide readership cant-free scholarly articles and essays and searching book reviews, all featuring a wide variety of approaches, written by both seasoned scholars and relative newcomers. Volume 24 features commentary on a range of Johnsonian topics: his reaction to Milton, his relation to the Allen family, his notes in his edition of Shakespeare, his use of Oliver Goldsmith in his Dictionary, and his always fascinating Nachleben. The volume also includes articles on topics of strong interest to Johnson: penal reform, Charlotte Lennox's professional literary career, and the "conjectural history" of Homer in the eighteenth century. For more than two decades, The Age of Johnson has presented a vast corpus of Johnsonian studies "in the broadest sense," as founding editor Paul J. Korshin put it in the preface to Volume 1, and it has retained the interest of a wide readership. In thousands of pages of articles, review essays, and reviews, The Age of Johnson has made a permanent contribution to our understanding of the eighteenth century, and particularly of Samuel Johnson, his circle, and his interests, and has also served as an outlet for writers who are not academics but have something important to say about the eighteenth century. ISSN 0884-5816.Trade Review"Dedicated to publishing the best scholarship on Johnson and the long eighteenth century, The Age of Johnson has carved out a unique place for itself. The unusual amount of space allowed enables contributors to address in depth every facet of Johnson’s work and life from his prayers to his politics (while not ignoring the wider aspects of the age) and the extensive review articles consistently engage with their subject matter at a level which is not possible elsewhere." -- Michael Bundock * author of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Joh *"The era that included Johnson and the epoch that Johnson defined: Both versions of The Age of Johnson merge, mingle, and happily marry in the long-awaited revival of Jack Lynch’s and John Scanlan’s acclaimed journal. Much as 'Dr. Johnson' refracts human experience through the zoom lens of biography, so this first volume from Bucknell University Press peers at the glorious spectrum of eighteenth-century culture through prismatic particularities. Readers of The Age of Johnson will watch with joy and amazement as able authors extract vibrant insights from such gems in the Enlightenment lode as Johnson’s notes to Shakespeare or Hester Piozzi’s verse annotations or even a few dusty portraits of John Milton hanging in a corner of 'the Great Cham’s' powder room. Past, present, singular, and universal converge in inventive studies of Johnson’s place on twentieth-century reading lists, of penal reform, and of Enlightenment notions concerning the identity of epic poet Homer. Johnson recommends that learners scan the world from China to Peru—from Lima to Lisbon and on to Beijing—but Johnson is here outdone by a truly global journal that even includes comments on Pacific explorer James Cook. Energized by snappy reviews and enriched by diligently full-length review essays, the newly upgraded Age of Johnson delivers lively, precise, and, above all, pioneering scholarship. It brings out the best in that select cadre of writers, thinkers, and occasionally even landscapers who, year after year and century after century, refresh and redefine the English Enlightenment." -- Kevin L. Cope * editor of 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era *"AJ has been missing from the academic scene for far too long. Here’s to our earnest hope and expectation that the hiatus of the past years is now permanently bridged, and that we may expect from editors Lynch and Scanlan, their publishers, and their future contributors, the thorough, steady, and stable emission of volumes on a regular and timely basis, one volume per year. Johnsonians deserve nothing less, nor does Johnson. AJ, welcome back. It’s good to see you again." * 18th Century Intelligencer *Table of ContentsPreface Essays Milton at Bolt Court Stephen Clarke Mimesis and Understanding in Samuel Johnson’s Notes to Shakespeare (1765) Marcus Walsh Samuel Johnson and the Allen FamilyMatthew M. Davis “Con Amore”: Hester Piozzi’s Annotations upon Johnson’s Early Poetry Anthony W. Lee Johnson (and Boswell) in the Lists: A View of Their Reputations, 1933–2018 Paul Tankard The Curious Case of Charlotte Lennox: Conducting a Professional Literary Life in Eighteenth-Century Britain outside the Bluestocking Circle Susan Kubica Howard Punitive Injustice in Caleb Williams: Godwin’s Vexed Call for Penal Reform Suzanna Geiser Sensibility Reclaimed: Thomas Blackwell, Robert Wood, and the “Conjectural History” of Homer Peter M. BriggsReview Essays Organizing a Life and the “Lives”: Samuel Johnson and the Yale Edition of Johnson’s Lives of the Poets David Venturo Is Historical Fiction Still Revolutionary? Eric BennettReviews Michael Schmidt, The Novel: A Biography John Richetti David Alff, The Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture, 1660–1730Jacob Sider Jost Aileen Douglas, Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690–1840Robert DeMaria Jr. Julie Flavell, When London Was Capital of AmericaJoseph F. Bartolomeo John Phibbs, Place-Making: The Art of Capability Brown Heinz-Joachim Müllenbrock Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisSerious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World, first published in 1720 and considered a sequel to The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of essays written in the voice of the Crusoe character. Expressing Defoe’s thoughts about many moral questions of the day, the narrator takes up isolation, poverty, religious liberty, and epistemology. Defoe also used this volume to revive his interest in poetry, not the satiric poetry of the early eighteenth century, but the more inspirational verse that appeared in some of his later works. Serious Reflections also includes an imaginative flight in which Crusoe wanders among the planets, a return to the moon voyage impulse of Defoe’s 1705 work The Consolidator. Illuminating the ideas and philosophy of this most influential of English novelists, it is invaluable for any student of the period. Trade Review"Robinson Crusoe takes credit in the Preface for the authorship of this third part of the trilogy of The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, but this book is markedly different from the first two volumes. Crusoe rambles through a dozen large questions of social and religious morality which he contends are allegorized in his life. Even the best readers of Defoe can benefit from having a guide through this philosophical labyrinth. Fortunately, the introduction and notes to this superbly edited volume provide the necessary guidance and insight to make the Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe accessible, perhaps for the first time." -- Geoffrey Sill * editor of The Works of Daniel Defoe: Satire, Fantasy, and Supernatural Writings *"The editors of Serious Reflections provide useful, contextual, and reasonably tempered reflections of their own on the abundant run of Defoe’s material. Serious Reflections is a kind of topographical survey of the early eighteenth-century mind and this definitive edition charts that survey with a wonderful scholarly and critical agility throughout." -- Michael Seidel * author of Exile and the Narrative Imagination *"Robinson Crusoe takes credit in the Preface for the authorship of this third part of the trilogy of The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, but this book is markedly different from the first two volumes. Crusoe rambles through a dozen large questions of social and religious morality which he contends are allegorized in his life. Even the best readers of Defoe can benefit from having a guide through this philosophical labyrinth. Fortunately, the introduction and notes to this superbly edited volume provide the necessary guidance and insight to make the Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe accessible, perhaps for the first time." -- Geoffrey Sill * editor of The Works of Daniel Defoe: Satire, Fantasy, and Supernatural Writings *"The editors of Serious Reflections provide useful, contextual, and reasonably tempered reflections of their own on the abundant run of Defoe’s material. Serious Reflections is a kind of topographical survey of the early eighteenth-century mind and this definitive edition charts that survey with a wonderful scholarly and critical agility throughout." -- Michael Seidel * author of Exile and the Narrative Imagination *Table of ContentsContributorsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSerious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick WorldRobinson Crusoe’s PrefacePublisher’s Introduction1 Of SOLITUDE2 An Essay upon HONESTY3 of the Immorality of Conversation, and The Vulgar Errors of Behaviour4 An Essay on the present State of Religion in the World5 Of listning to the Voice of Providence6 Of the Proportion between the Christian and Pagan WorldA Vision of the Angelick WorldBibliographic DescriptionsList of Editorial EmendationsSelected BibliographyAbout the EditorsIndex

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Book SynopsisCollecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play—from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itself—this volume offers new insights into how play was used to represent and reimagine the world in eighteenth-century France. In documenting various modes of play, contributors theorize its relation to law, religion, politics, and economics. Equally important was the role of “play” in plays, and the function of theatrical performance in mirroring, and often contesting, our place in the universe. These essays remind us that the spirit of play was very much alive during the “Age of Reason,” providing ways for its practitioners to consider more “serious” themes such as free will and determinism, illusions and equivocations, or chance and inequality. Standing at the intersection of multiple intellectual avenues, this is the first comprehensive study in English devoted to the different guises of play in Enlightenment France, certain to interest curious readers across disciplinary backgrounds.Trade Review"Bringing together game studies and 18th-century French studies, Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France is a most welcome contribution to the study of French literature, history, and culture. The collection introduces us to understudied works and provides fresh approaches to canonical texts, broadening our understanding of the interaction between play, culture, and politics." -- Tracy Rutler * co-creator of Legacies of the Enlightenment *"An enjoyable and stimulating collection, this volume will be of much interest to students and scholars alike. It will undoubtedly spur new scholarly work on the history of play which, as the editors and contributors so convincingly show, is no trivial matter." -- Gemma Tidman * H-France Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Fayçal Falaky and Reginald McGinnis 1 Playing with Dolls in Old Regime Fairy Tales Rori Bloom 2 The Morality of Bilboquet, or the Equivocations of Language Jean-Alexandre Perras 3 Fiction as Play: Rhetorical Subversion in Alain-René Lesage’s Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane Zeina Hakim 4 Playthings of Fortune: Lots, Games of Chance, and Inequality in l’Abbé Prévost Masano Yamashita 5 Boundless Play and Infinite Pleasure in the Chevalier de Béthune’s Relation du monde de Mercure Erika Mandarino 6 The Politics of Orientalist Fantasy in French Opera Katharine Hargrave 7 Playing at Theater: Modes of Play in Théâtre de Société Maria Teodora Comsa 8 Between Play and Ritual: Profane Masquerade in the French Revolution Annelle Curulla 9 The Return of Play, or the End of Revolutionary Theater Yann Robert 10 Video Games as Cultural History: Procedural Narrative and the Eighteenth-Century Fair Theater Jeffrey M. Leichman Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisSamuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip Smallwood examines the “mirrored minds” of Johnson and Shakespeare, while David Hopkins parses intersections of the general and particular in three key eighteenth-century figures. Aaron Hanlon draws parallels between instances of physical rambling and rhetorical strategies in Johnson’s Rambler, while Cedric D. Reverand dissects the intertextual strands uniting Dryden and Pope. Contributors take up other topics significant to the field, including post-feminism, travel, and seismology. Whether discussing cultural exchange or textual reciprocities, each piece extends the theme, building on the trope of relationship to organize and express its findings. Rounding out this collection are tributes from Clingham’s former students and colleagues, including original poetry. Trade Review"Editor, author, de facto publisher, and dedicated teacher, Greg Clingham is remarkable among eighteenth-century scholars for his versatility and productivity. A Clubbable Man brings together a star-studded cast of Clingham's colleagues, students, and friends to celebrate a career of consequence in a suitably diverse, elegantly written, and original collection of essays." -- Robert DeMaria * editor of The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson *"This rich collection of work by leading scholars of Samuel Johnson and adjacent eighteenth-century conversations broadens and deepens our own conversations significantly. The vital interplay of social communication and individual achievement emerges clearly throughout this well-conceived, capacious, and handsome volume." -- John Sitter * author of The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry *Table of ContentsIntroductionAnthony W. LeeI. Essays on Samuel Johnson and Boswell1. Mirrored Minds—Johnson and ShakespearePhilip Smallwood2. The General and the Particular: Pope, Johnson, and ReynoldsDavid Hopkins3. “The Caliban of Literature”: Spenser, Shakespeare, and Johnson’s Intertextual ScholarshipAnthony W. Lee4. In Silence and Darkness: Johnson’s Verdicts on Artistic FailureAdam Rounce5. Smollett’s Ramblers and the Law of the LandAaron Hanlon6. The Social Life of Thomas Cumming, or “Clubbing” with Johnson’s friend, the Fighting QuakerRobert G. Walker7. Not "Just a Macheath": Young Boswell and Old Cibber in Boswell’s London Journal 1762–1763Gordon TurnbullII. Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture8. English Historiography and the Development of Secular Autobiography: The MemoirMartine Brownley9. What Else Did Pope Borrow from Dryden?Cedric D. Reverand10. Poetic Performances: Pope’s “An Essay on Man” and “Swift’s Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift”John Richetti11. Swift Shrinks the Duke of Marlborough: Public Delegitimization Though ScaleClement Hawes12. Trans-Plant Perspectives: Western Gardens, Eastern ViewsBärbel Czennia13. Publishers Can Cause Earthquakes: The Seismic English Enlightenment and Enigmatic ExplanationsKevin L. CopeIII. Personal Reminiscences1. Greg Clingham as Teacher and MentorDominic JermeyElaine WoodCaroline FassettJoseph McNicholasMargaret WilliamsErin LabbiePatrick HenryAdam WalkerKang Tchou2. Greg Clingham and Bucknell University PressGary SojkaNina ForsbergDaniel LittleJames RiceJohn Rickard3. Commemoratory Poems“It is rowing without a port.”Notes by Lady Anne Barnard while in South AfricaAntjie KrogFrances TowneKieron WinnAn Ode: Alexander Pope Reciprocally Writes an Encomium for Samuel Johnson, Aided by Greg ClinghamEmily GrosholzMother JohnsonHarry ThomasCodaKate ParkerGreg Clingham’s PublicationsAcknowledgmentsBibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisSeafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the specter of shipwreck loomed large. Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World probes this preoccupation by examining portrayals of nautical disasters in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature and culture. The essays collected here showcase shipwreck’s symbolic deployment to question colonial expansion and transoceanic trade; to critique the Christian enterprise overseas; to signal the collapse of dominant social order; and to relay moral messages and represent socio-political debates. The contributors find examples in poetry, theater, narrative fiction, and other print artifacts, and approach the topic variously through the lens of historical, literary, and cultural studies. Ultimately demonstrating how shipwrecks both shaped and destabilized perceptions of the Spanish Empire worldwide, this analytically rich volume is the first in Hispanic studies to investigate the darker side of mercantile and imperial expansion through maritime disaster.Trade Review"This is a timely collection of essays that provides students and scholars of early modernity with new perspectives and insights on the importance of shipwrecks as a major cultural and political event. For all the authors in the volume, a shipwreck is the unavoidable partner of empire and colonial expansion, signaling the perilous path of conquest and at the same time revealing the fissures of the entire imperial enterprise. Going beyond rhetoric, the volume argues for a more comprehensive approach to shipwrecks, defined as significant cultural events that expose not only the precarious nature of imperial expansion and colonial rule, but also issues related to gender, sexuality, identity, and morality." -- Luis Avilés * author of Avatares de lo invisible: Espacio y subjetividad en los Siglos de Oro *"Rodríguez-Guridi and Ruiz's Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World is an excellent example of the rich interdisciplinary orientation that prevails in the field of Early Modern Hispanic Studies, providing fertile ground for in-depth analyses on resistance to Spanish conquest and colonization." -- Raúl Marrero-Fente * author of Epic, Empire, and Community in the Atlantic World: Silvestre de Balboa’s Espejo de paciencia *"Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World is perhaps the only English-language collection of essays structured around this central theme or metaphor in recent times. Now that a number of literary critics, cultural studies scholars, and historians are working on maritime matters in the Spanish-speaking world, the chapters of this book offer a distinctive way of looking at topics relevant to these scholars and to early modernists, generally." -- Elizabeth Davis * author of Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain *"This is a timely collection of essays that provides students and scholars of early modernity with new perspectives and insights on the importance of shipwrecks as a major cultural and political event. For all the authors in the volume, a shipwreck is the unavoidable partner of empire and colonial expansion, signaling the perilous path of conquest and at the same time revealing the fissures of the entire imperial enterprise. Going beyond rhetoric, the volume argues for a more comprehensive approach to shipwrecks, defined as significant cultural events that expose not only the precarious nature of imperial expansion and colonial rule, but also issues related to gender, sexuality, identity, and morality." -- Luis Avilés * author of Avatares de lo invisible: Espacio y subjetividad en los Siglos de Oro *"Rodríguez-Guridi and Ruiz's Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World is an excellent example of the rich interdisciplinary orientation that prevails in the field of Early Modern Hispanic Studies, providing fertile ground for in-depth analyses on resistance to Spanish conquest and colonization." -- Raúl Marrero-Fente * author of Epic, Empire, and Community in the Atlantic World: Silvestre de Balboa’s Espejo de pacienc *"Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World is perhaps the only English-language collection of essays structured around this central theme or metaphor in recent times. Now that a number of literary critics, cultural studies scholars, and historians are working on maritime matters in the Spanish-speaking world, the chapters of this book offer a distinctive way of looking at topics relevant to these scholars and to early modernists, generally." -- Elizabeth Davis * author of Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain *Table of ContentsForeword Josiah Blackmore Introduction Elena Rodríguez-Guridi and Carrie L. Ruiz Chapter 1: Turbulent Waters: Shipwreck in Zayas’s “Tarde llega el desengaño” Carrie L. Ruiz Chapter 2: Two Small and Two Large Imperial Shipwrecks by Cervantes and Góngora Julio Baena Chapter 3: The Reader as Castaway: Problematics of Reading Soledades by Luis de Góngora Elena Rodríguez-Guridi Chapter 4: On Moral Truth and the Controversy over the Amerindians: The Relación (1542), by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca Natalio Ohanna Chapter 5: The Discourse of Poverty in Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios Fernando Rodríguez Mansilla Chapter 6: Shipwreck, Exile, and Political Critique in the Comedia de Fernán Méndez Pinto en China (1631) by Antonio Enríquez Gómez Carmen Hsu Chapter 7: The Manila Galleon Shipwrecks: Writing Crisis and Decline in the Spanish Global Empire Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez Chapter 8: The Shipwreck of the Manila Galleon San Felipe in Seventeenth-Century Histories and Accounts on Japan Noemí Martín Santo Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisEngland’s famed Lake District—best known as the place of inspiration for the Wordsworths, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and other Romantic-era writers—is the locus of this pioneering study, which implements and critiques a new approach to literary analysis in the digital age. Deploying innovative methods from literary studies, corpus linguistics, historical geography, and geographical information science, Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District combines close readings of a body of writing about the region from 1622-1900 with distant approaches to textual analysis. This path-breaking volume exemplifies interdisciplinarity, demonstrating how digital humanities methodologies and geospatial tools can enhance our appreciation of a region whose topography has been long recognized as fundamental to the shape of the poetry and prose produced within it.Trade Review"It is rare that one book can influence several disciplines. Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District is such a title. Taylor and Gregory offer a compelling case for the spatial humanities, and in the process, make valuable contributions to literary studies, geography, history, and cultural studies. A truly innovative work."— David Bodenhamer, co-editor of Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives “Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District will quickly become a new standard in the field of literary geography. Its spatial synthesis of aesthetics, Romanticism, sociology, history, literature, and cartography will excite scholars from across the digital-analog divide. I highly recommend the book to every scholar working in these fields, as well as any reader interested in the Lake District and its rich, layered literature and culture."— Ryan Heuser, King's College, Cambridge University "Taylor and Gregory brilliantly demonstrate how digital techniques developed for work at a wide scale can be employed for the full depth of deep mapping. The result is one of the most exciting demonstrations of the value of computational technologies in literary analysis that I’ve read in a long time."— James Loxley, co-editor of Ben Jonson's Walk to Scotland: An Annotated Edition of the 'Foot Voyage'Table of ContentsFigures Tables Note on the Data 1 Deep Mapping and the Corpus of Lake District Writing The Distant Reader and the Close: Toward Multiscalar Analysis The Corpus of Lake District Writing Corpus Linguistics and Geographic Information Science Geographical Text Analysis Deep Mapping as Literary Practice 2 Picturesque Technologies and the Digital Humanities Specifying in General: Deep Mapping and the Gilpinian Picturesque The Picturesque in the CLDW Protest against the Wrong: The Problem with Picturesque Data Virtual Playgrounds in Text and on Screen 3 Tourists, Travelers, Inhabitants: Variant Digital Literary Geographies The “Discovery” of the Lake District Keep Moving: Tourism in the Lakes Proceeding at Leisure: Traveling in the Lake District Away from the Show Place: The Inhabitants’ Lakeland 4 Walking in the Literary Lakes Types of Lake District Walking Walking along a Good Road: Taking a Lakeland Excursion “Linger There a Breathing While”: Being a Pedestrian in the Lakes 5 Seeing Sound: Mapping the Lake District’s Soundscape The Power of Sound, Noise, and Silence Wordsworthian Listening How the Water Comes Down: Listening to Waterfalls The “Most Expensive Luxuries”: Cannon-Fire and English Echoes 6 Digital Cartographies and Personal Geographies: (Re-)Mapping Scafell Mapping Scafell Climbing Scafell The View from the Top Conclusion: The Future of Deep Mapping Appendix: The Corpus of Lake District Writing Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInsults, scorn, and verbal abuse—frequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulter—are destined to fail when that language is appropriated and embraced by the maligned group. In such circumstances, slander may instead empower and reinforce the collective identity of those perceived to be a threat to an idealized society. In this innovative study, Irigoyen-Garcia examines how the discourse and practices of insult and infamy shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties, and fantasies of early modern Spain. Drawing on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary works, archival research, religious and political literature, and iconographic documents, Dystopias of Infamy traces how the production of insults haunts the imaginary of power, provoking latent anxieties about individual and collective resistance to subjectification. Of particular note is Cervantes’s tendency to parody regulatory fantasies about infamy throughout his work, lampooning repressive law for its paradoxical potential to instigate the very defiance it fears.Trade Review"Extremely well-researched and well-written, Dystopias of Infamy is bound to be of interest not just to Hispanists, but also to cultural anthropologists and scholars interested in issues of identity formation among both dominant and marginalized groups."— Anthony J. Cascardi, author of Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics "Dystopias of Infamy shows convincingly how the discourse and practices of insult shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties, and fantasies of early modern Iberia. The significance of Irigoyen-García’s study lies in an innovative approach that reveals infamy’s resilience as much as its liabilities, its foreseeable victims as much as its unexpected mutations. Through the recuperation of little-known historical documents and incisive interpretation of well-established texts, this book provides fresh, nuanced insights into the social workings of both the dominant and marginalized in pre-modern Spain."— Paul Michael Johnson, author of Affective Geographies: Cervantes, Emotion, and the Literary MediterraneanTable of ContentsIntroduction: “Names full of vituperations” 1. Insulting as a Social Speech Act: Communities of Affronters 2. Self-deprecation and Social Existence 3. Dystopias of Infamy 4. Fancy sambenitos: The Ethnicization of Infamy 5. “They did not bray in vain”: History, Insult, and Collective Identity Epilogue: Spanish History as sambenito Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650–1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly detailed rendering of the first days, the first principles, and the first efforts of modern culture. Its pages open to the works of all nations and language traditions, providing a truly global picture of a period that routinely shattered boundaries. Volume 27 of this long-running journal is no exception to this tradition of focused inclusivity. Readers will travel through a blockbuster special feature on the topic of worldmaking and other worlds—on the Enlightenment zest for the discovery, charting, imagining, and evaluating of new worlds, envisioned worlds, utopian worlds, and worlds of the future. Essays in this enthusiastically extraterritorial offering escort readers through the science-fictional worlds of Lady Cavendish, around European gardens, over the high seas, across the American frontiers, into forests and exotic ecosystems, and, in sum, into the unlimited expanses of the Enlightenment mind. Further enlivening the volume is a cavalcade of full-length book reviews evaluating the latest in eighteenth-century scholarship. Trade Review"'Had we but world enough and time'; '’Tis the way of the world'; 'To see a world in a grain of sand'—what does 'world' imply in such contexts? In this inspired volume fourteen essayists explicate the 'worlding' of real and imagined spaces across an expanding universe of literary, cartographic, and commercial endeavor." -- David Radcliffe * editor of the digital archive Lord Byron and His Times *Table of ContentsSPECIAL FEATUREWorldmaking and Other Worlds: Restorationto RomanticEdited by Elizabeth Sauer and Betty Joseph Foreword to the Special FeatureIntroduction to the Special FeatureWorlding and Deworlding Reimagined:A New IntroductionBetty Joseph and Elizabeth Sauer OTHER WORLDS: CARTOGRAPHIES AND SPATIOTEMPORAL ORDERS A New Science for a New World: Margaret Cavendish on the Question of PovertyBrandi R. Siegfried and Lisa Walters “All the kingdoms of the world”: Global Visions of Empire and War in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Paradise RegainedDaniel Vitkus Texts and Tectonists: World-making and World-cleaving on the Anglo-Algonquian FrontierAna Schwarz Charlotte Smith’s Littoral Zones: Worldmaking in the Elegiac Sonnets and BeyondDaniel O’Quinn WORLDMAKING: ARTIFACTS, COLLECTIONS, AND MATERIAL CULTURE The Tree and The WorldChris Barrett Imperial Cosmopolitanism and the Structure of Global-Domestic Space in Enlightenment BritainMita Choudhury Colonial Intimacies: Indian Ayahs, British MothersFelicity Nussbaum A World Affair: The South Sea Pavilion in the Garden Realm of Dessau-WörlitzBillie Lythberg WORLDING: ECOLOGIES OF BEING AND OTHERING Indigeneity Overlooked: Indigenous Technologies and Criollo Worldmaking in Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez (1690)Matthew Goldmark William Dampier’s “Sagacious” WorldmakingSu Fang Ng “To serve them in the other world”: Natural History, Worldmaking, and Funeral Song in Hans Sloane's Voyage to…Jamaica (1707–1725)David S. Mazella Crusoe’s Goat UmbrellaChi-ming Yang Speaking in Voices: The South African Poetry of Thomas PringleJennifer L. Hargrave BOOK REVIEWSEdited by Samara Anne Cahill Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen. The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden AgeReviewed by Erica Johnson Edwards W. R. Owens, Stuart Sim, and David Walker, eds., Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation and Nonconformist CultureReviewed by Andrew Black Michael Edson, ed., Annotation in Eighteenth-Century PoetryReviewed by Anthony W. Lee Christiane Hertel. Siting China in Germany: Eighteenth-Century Chinoiserie and Its Modern LegacyReviewed by Stephanie Howard-Smith Bärbel Czennia and Greg Clingham, eds., Oriental Networks: Culture, Commerce and Communication in the Long Eighteenth CenturyReviewed by Sir Malcolm Jack Thomas F. Bonnell, ed., The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition: James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes. Volume 4: 1780-1784Reviewed by Anthony W. LeePeter J. Aschenbrenner and Colin Lee, eds. The Papers of John Hatsell, Clerk of the House of CommonsReviewed by Jacqy Sharpe Deborah Heller, ed., Bluestockings Now! The Evolution of a Social RoleReviewed by Gefen Bar-On Santor Eileen Hunt Botting. Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in FrankensteinReviewed by Samara Anne Cahill Lee Jackson. Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls, to the Seaside, to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass EntertainmentReviewed by James Hamby John M. Gingerich. Schubert’s Beethoven ProjectReviewed by Seow-Chin Ong Edina Adam and Julian Brooks with an essay by Matthew Hargraves. William Blake: VisionaryReviewed by Linda L. Reesman Frances B. Singh. Scandal and Survival in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: The Life of Jane CummingReviewed by Daniel Livesay Abut the Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and the corresponding interior subject in the eighteenth century. By focusing on kinship constellations instead of “family plots” in seminal literary works of the period, this book presents an alternative view of the eighteenth-century literary social world and its concomitant ideologies. Whereas Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment philosophy and political theory posit the nuclear family as a microcosm for the ideal modern nation-state, literature of the period offers a far more heterogeneous image of kinship structures, one that includes members of various classes and is not defined by blood. Through a radical re-reading of the multifarious kinship structures represented in literature of the long eighteenth century, The Aesthetics of Kinship questions the inevitability of the dialectic of the Enlightenment and invokes alternative futures for conceptions of social and political life.Trade Review“Schlipphacke’s smart style brings the eighteenth-century tableau into vivid life. This wonderfully learned study expands our understanding of the eighteenth-century tableau beyond its immediate theatrical and painterly associations to show how it reframed models of family and kinship. Challenging the long standing presumption that the Bildungsroman coalesced around the nuclear family, Schlipphacke illuminates the tableau’s elastic depiction of porous social relations across an array of genres and media. Her queer, allegorical sensibility draws our attention away from the hermeneutic depths of the Romantic nuclear family onto the tableau’s surface alignments. The Aesthetics of Kinship brilliantly condenses eighteenth-century theories of spectatorship, theater, and the novel.”— Daniel Purdy, author of On the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought “Schlipphacke demonstrates an active curiosity and adept intellect as she analyzes literary forms (such as unconventional endings and halted narrative progression) as challenges to the inward-focused, nuclear family as it begins to unfold into the nineteenth century. Rare is the scholar who links the study of social relations to aesthetics.”— Alice Kuzniar, author of The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism “The Aesthetics of Kinship provides a thoroughly new understanding of how German authors, including major ones like Lessing, Schiller, and Goethe, used tableaux, props, and letters to highlight multiple types of family kinships that depict heterogeneous social groupings that highlight diversity, and that defy any narrow definition of ‘family.’”— Susan Gustafson, author of Goethe’s Families of the Heart “Historically significant and extremely timely! Schlipphacke’s fascinating turn to the period tableaux compellingly illustrates aesthetic experiments with diverse forms of relations, fruitfully challenging accounts of the rise of the nuclear family.”— Stefani Engelstein, author of Sibling Action: The Genealogical Structure of ModernityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Middle Class/Bourgeois/Bürger: The Idiosyncrasies of German Dramatic Realism 2 Tableau/Tableau Vivant: German-French Dramatic Encounters 3 The German Dramatic Tableau beyond Lessing 4 Against Interiority: Letters and Portraits as Dramatic Props 5 Material Kinship: The Economy of Props in G.E. Lessing’s Nathan der Weise 6 The Tableau of Relations: Novels in Stillness and Motion 7 Kinship and Aesthetic Depth: The Tableau Vivant in Goethe’s Wahlverwandtschaften [Elective Affinities] Concluding Reflections Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650–1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly detailed rendering of the first days, the first principles, and the first efforts of modern culture. Its pages open to the works of all nations and language traditions, providing a truly global picture of a period that routinely shattered boundaries. Volume 28 of this long-running journal is no exception to this tradition of focused inclusivity. Readers will experience two blockbuster multi-author special features that explore both the deep traditions and the new frontiers of early modern studies: one that views adaptation and digitization through the lens of “Sterneana,” the vast literary and cultural legacy following on the writings of Laurence Sterne, a legacy that sweeps from Hungarian renditions of the puckish novelist through the Bloomsbury circle and on into cybernetics, and one that pays tribute to legendary scholar Irwin Primer by probing the always popular but also always challenging writings of that enigmatic poet-philosopher, Bernard Mandeville. All that, plus the usual cavalcade of full-length book reviews. ISSN: 1065-3112 Published by Bucknell University Press, distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review“Once again, 1650-1850 offers readers exciting perspectives, not only on literature of the long eighteenth century but also—especially—on innovative ways of doing research. By expanding and modeling new methods, the authors featured in this double special issue stand to expand the ways we think about and do eighteenth-century studies.” -- Ashley Bender * assistant professor of English, Texas Woman’s University *Table of ContentsSpecial Feature Adaptation and Digitization in the Long Eighteenth Century: Sterneana and BeyondEdited by M-C. Newbould and Helen Williams Introduction to the Special Feature: Fitting Things? Adaptation, Eighteenth-Century Afterlives, and Digital CulturesM-C. Newbould and Helen Williams Linking Austen’s and Sterne’s Reception JourneysDevoney Looser Laurence Sterne and Women’s Writing: Elizabeth Bonhôte, Jane Harvey, Jane Timbury, and Miss StreetHelen Williams “Ye Gods Annihilate Both Space and Time”: Excerpt Culture and the Digital Editing of Eighteenth-Century CorrespondenceJack Orchard Taking Tea with Joseph Addison: Virginia Woolf and the Eighteenth Century in Orlando (1928)Adam James Smith “Gabriel Shandy Looks Me Deeply in the Eye”: Early Sterne Adaptations and the Formation of the Novel in HungaryGabriella Hartvig Three Mid-Eighteenth-Century Mash-Ups: Hybridity and Conflicted Discourse in Robert Paltock’s Peter Wilkins and Its Early ImitationsJakub Lipski A Distributional Analysis of the Language of Sensibility in the Sterne Corpus and ECCOJohn Regan “[It] Were Wisdome It Selfe, to Read All Authors, asAnonymo’s”: Anonymity, Virtual Communities, and SterneanaM-C. Newbould Authorial Authority and the Mapping of An -AnaPaul GoringSpecial Feature Irwin Primer and Bernard MandevilleEdited by Sir Malcolm Jack Introduction to the Special Feature: Irwin Primer and Bernard MandevilleSir Malcolm Jack “What Strange Contradictions Man Is Made Of!”Rui Romao “Self Still Is at the Bottom”: Mandeville and French MoralistsBéatrice Guion The “System of Nature” and the French Reception ofThe Fable of the Bees in the Eighteenth CenturyEdmundo Balsemão-Pires Mandeville on Happiness, Self-Esteem, and HypochondriaMauro SimonazziBook ReviewsEdited by Samara Anne Cahill Cedric D. Reverand II, ed., Queen Anne and the Arts Reviewed by John Knapp Kimiyo Ogawa and Mika Suzuki, eds., Johnson in Japan Reviewed by John Stone Kevin L. Cope, ed., Hemispheres and Stratospheres: The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International EnlightenmentReviewed by Christopher D. Johnson A. Joan Saab, Objects of Vision: Making Sense of What We See Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson Eve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler, eds., Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol. 48Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind, A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism Reviewed by Sir Malcolm Jack Rory Muir, Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen’s England Reviewed by Paul J. de Gategno About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisWhat, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orientalist representation by examining the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses sparked by these commodities transformed the period’s literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness. Tracing exotic ingestion as a motif across a range of authors and genres, this book considers how, why, and whither writers used scenes of eating, drinking, and smoking to diagnose and interrogate their own solipsistic constructions of the Orient. As national and cultural boundaries became increasingly porous, such self-reflexive inquiries into the nature and role of otherness provided an unexpected avenue for British imperial subjectivity to emerge and coalesce.Trade Review"A bold and powerfully generative take on the literary shockwaves produced by the massive influx—at once unsettling and inspiring—of Eastern products in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. By centering eating and drinking as the paradigmatic forms of exotic consumption, Yin Yuan surfaces previously unrecognized currents of ironic self-reflexivity with respect to bodily and cultural boundaries set in motion by the period’s insatiable appetites for the Orient. Rarely has such a theoretically astute treatment of the cultural politics of eating made for such devilishly delicious fare."— David Porter, author of The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England "Focusing on early British Orientalism as a distinctly literary effort to negotiate the new material realities of imperial commerce, Alimentary Orientalism locates in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing about exotic comestibles an emergent form of semiotic theory. Imperial self-making, it shows, not only rehearsed mythologies of encounter, but did so as a way of orienting British selfhood in the liminal space where sign meets substance—the space where empire unfolds."— Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins, author of A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism “Eating, drinking, smoking—the bodies in nineteenth-century British writing took in Chinese influence both cavalierly and copiously. Yin Yuan’s book helps us understand this consumption by explaining, with erudition and grace, how such exotic ingestants navigated Britain’s symbolic and material Oriental encounters on their way to the heart of the empire.”— Elizabeth Hope Chang, author of Britain’s Chinese Eye: Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain "Bracingly original, Alimentary Orientalism moves beyond predictable ‘self/other’ binaries to delineate new complexities in British ‘Orientalist’ literary discourse. Focusing on such ‘psychoactive groceries’ as tea and opium, Yuan details how various texts represent the literal incorporation of otherness, even as they self-critically investigate the nature of Orientalist representation itself."— Alan Richardson, author of The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic TextsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Exotic Ingestion and Self-Reflexive Orientalism in Long-Eighteenth-Century Britain 1 Virtuous Leaf, “Intoxicating Liquor”: England’s Tea Talk (A Prelude on Tea) 2 “Eating Only What I Knew”: Exotic Consumerism and the Boundaries of Selfhood in The Citizen of the World and Vathek 3 Cups, Cures, and Curses: The Elusiveness of Cultural Identity in Lalla Rookh and The Talisman 4 The Exotic Self: De Quincey’s Opium Texts and Lamb’s Chinese Essays 5 “Barbarian Eye”: The Opium Wars as a Visual Project (An Interlude on Opium) 6 “Not the Track of the Time”: Antiquated Orientalismin Villette and Little Dorrit Afterword: The Inadequate Language of Contagion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orientalist representation by examining the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses sparked by these commodities transformed the period’s literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness. Tracing exotic ingestion as a motif across a range of authors and genres, this book considers how, why, and whither writers used scenes of eating, drinking, and smoking to diagnose and interrogate their own solipsistic constructions of the Orient. As national and cultural boundaries became increasingly porous, such self-reflexive inquiries into the nature and role of otherness provided an unexpected avenue for British imperial subjectivity to emerge and coalesce.Trade Review"A bold and powerfully generative take on the literary shockwaves produced by the massive influx—at once unsettling and inspiring—of Eastern products in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. By centering eating and drinking as the paradigmatic forms of exotic consumption, Yin Yuan surfaces previously unrecognized currents of ironic self-reflexivity with respect to bodily and cultural boundaries set in motion by the period’s insatiable appetites for the Orient. Rarely has such a theoretically astute treatment of the cultural politics of eating made for such devilishly delicious fare." -- David Porter * author of The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England *“Eating, drinking, smoking—the bodies in nineteenth-century British writing took in Chinese influence both cavalierly and copiously. Yin Yuan’s book helps us understand this consumption by explaining, with erudition and grace, how such exotic ingestants navigated Britain’s symbolic and material Oriental encounters on their way to the heart of the empire.” -- Elizabeth Hope Chang * author of Britain’s Chinese Eye: Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain *"Bracingly original, Alimentary Orientalism moves beyond predictable ‘self/other’ binaries to delineate new complexities in British ‘Orientalist’ literary discourse. Focusing on such ‘psychoactive groceries’ as tea and opium, Yuan details how various texts represent the literal incorporation of otherness, even as they self-critically investigate the nature of Orientalist representation itself." -- Alan Richardson * author of The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts *"Focusing on early British Orientalism as a distinctly literary effort to negotiate the new material realities of imperial commerce, Alimentary Orientalism locates in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing about exotic comestibles an emergent form of semiotic theory. Imperial self-making, it shows, not only rehearsed mythologies of encounter, but did so as a way of orienting British selfhood in the liminal space where sign meets substance—the space where empire unfolds." -- Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins * author of A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism *Table of Contents Introduction: Exotic Ingestion and Self-Reflexive Orientalism in Long-Eighteenth-Century Britain 1 Virtuous Leaf, “Intoxicating Liquor”: England’s Tea Talk (A Prelude on Tea) 2 “Eating Only What I Knew”:Exotic Consumerism and the Boundaries of Selfhood in The Citizen of the World and Vathek 3 Cups, Cures, and Curses: The Elusiveness of Cultural Identity in Lalla Rookh and The Talisman 4 The Exotic Self: De Quincey’s Opium Texts and Lamb’s Chinese Essays 5 “Barbarian Eye”: The Opium Wars as a Visual Project (An Interlude on Opium) 6 “Not the Track of the Time”: Antiquated Orientalismin Villette and Little Dorrit Afterword: The Inadequate Language of Contagion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrench playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his prolific oeuvre but today remains an understudied writer. In this penetrating study—the first in English devoted to Mercier in decades—Michael Mulryan explores his unpublished writings and urban chronicles, Tableau de Paris (1781–88) and Le Nouveau Paris (1798), in which he identified the city as a microcosm of national societal problems, detailed the conditions of the laboring poor, encouraged educational reform, and confronted universal social ills. Mercier’s rich writings speak powerfully to the sociopolitical problems that continue to afflict us as political leaders manipulate public debate and encourage absolutist thinking, deepening social divides. An outcast for his polemical views during his lifetime, Mercier has been called the founder of modern urban discourse, and his work a precursor to investigative journalism. This sensitive study returns him to his rightful place among Enlightenment thinkers.Trade Review“Mulryan analyzes the social divisions and the reforming policies that are expressed through the representation of urban space. One of the most important contributions of this book lies in the exploration of unpublished texts and of perspectives little addressed by critics such as the religious anchoring of Mercier's thought.”— Geneviève Boucher, associate professor of French, University of Ottawa “A comprehensive exploration of Mercier’s wonderfully entertaining ‘tableaux de Paris’ and his lively, passionate, and multi-faceted commitment to social justice. In this highly informative, highly necessary study, Mulryan demonstrates with great clarity and precision why Mercier is a major late Enlightenment writer.”— Laurence Mall, author of Emile ou les figures de la fiction “This original investigation into pre-and post-Revolutionary Paris and its festive, social, and artistic spaces vividly captures Mercier’s journalisme engagé. A fascinating study worthy of this eclectic, pivotal author.”— Fabienne Moore, author of Prose Poems of the French Enlightenment: Delimiting Genre “Mulryan’s book might as well be about the unannounced birth of sociology some fifty years before Auguste Comte. Through his reading of the urban space of Paris and his representation of the different strands of Parisian society, Mercier exposed in great detail the existence of inequalities, abuses, and injustices that had hitherto mostly been treated theoretically; and as Mulryan shows quite dexterously, this practical, urban approach allows Mercier to give practical solutions to the woes of France, before and after the Revolution.”— Fayçal Falaky, author of Social Contract, Masochist Contract: Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in RousseauTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 The Desolation of Festive Space in Tableau de Paris 2 Authoritarian versus Enlightened Approaches to Urban Space in Tableau de Paris 3 Art and Society in Tableau de Paris 4 Mercier’s “New” Chaotic Paris: Surviving a Moral Vacuum among the Delusional, the Dethroned, and the Disenfranchised 5 The Regeneration of the French Citizen: The “Homme Nouveau” as the Cornerstone Mercier’s Modern Urbs Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrench playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his prolific oeuvre but today remains an understudied writer. In this penetrating study—the first in English devoted to Mercier in decades—Michael Mulryan explores his unpublished writings and urban chronicles, Tableau de Paris (1781–88) and Le Nouveau Paris (1798), in which he identified the city as a microcosm of national societal problems, detailed the conditions of the laboring poor, encouraged educational reform, and confronted universal social ills. Mercier’s rich writings speak powerfully to the sociopolitical problems that continue to afflict us as political leaders manipulate public debate and encourage absolutist thinking, deepening social divides. An outcast for his polemical views during his lifetime, Mercier has been called the founder of modern urban discourse, and his work a precursor to investigative journalism. This sensitive study returns him to his rightful place among Enlightenment thinkers.Trade Review“A comprehensive exploration of Mercier’s wonderfully entertaining ‘tableaux de Paris’ and his lively, passionate, and multi-faceted commitment to social justice. In this highly informative, highly necessary study, Mulryan demonstrates with great clarity and precision why Mercier is a major late Enlightenment writer.” -- Laurence Mall * author of Emile ou les figures de la fiction *“This original investigation into pre-and post-Revolutionary Paris and its festive, social, and artistic spaces vividly captures Mercier’s journalisme engagé. A fascinating study worthy of this eclectic, pivotal author.” -- Fabienne Moore * author of Prose Poems of the French Enlightenment: Delimiting Genre *“Mulryan’s book might as well be about the unannounced birth of sociology some fifty years before Auguste Comte. Through his reading of the urban space of Paris and his representation of the different strands of Parisian society, Mercier exposed in great detail the existence of inequalities, abuses, and injustices that had hitherto mostly been treated theoretically; and as Mulryan shows quite dexterously, this practical, urban approach allows Mercier to give practical solutions to the woes of France, before and after the Revolution.” -- Fayçal Falaky * author of Social Contract, Masochist Contract: Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in Rousseau *“Mulryan analyzes the social divisions and the reforming policies that are expressed through the representation of urban space. One of the most important contributions of this book lies in the exploration of unpublished texts and of perspectives little addressed by critics such as the religious anchoring of Mercier's thought.” -- Geneviève Boucher * associate professor of French, University of Ottawa *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 The Desolation of Festive Space in Tableau de Paris 2 Authoritarian versus Enlightened Approaches to Urban Space in Tableau de Paris 3 Art and Society in Tableau de Paris 4 Mercier’s “New” Chaotic Paris: Surviving a Moral Vacuum among the Delusional, the Dethroned, and the Disenfranchised 5 The Regeneration of the French Citizen: The “Homme Nouveau” as the Cornerstone Mercier’s Modern Urbs Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn examination of how and why Scotland gained its reputation for the supernatural, and how belief continued to flourish in a supposed Age of Enlightenment. SHORTLISTED for the Katharine Briggs Award 2019 Scotland is famed for being a haunted nation, "whare ghaists and houlets nightly cry". Medieval Scots told stories of restless souls and walking corpses, but after the 1560Reformation, witches and demons became the focal point for explorations of the supernatural. Ghosts re-emerged in scholarly discussion in the late seventeenth century, often in the guise of religious propagandists. As time went on, physicians increasingly reframed ghosts as the conjurations of disturbed minds, but gothic and romantic literature revelled in the emotive power of the returning dead; they were placed against a backdrop of ancient monasteries,castles and mouldering ruins, and authors such as Robert Burns, James Hogg and Walter Scott drew on the macabre to colour their depictions of Scottish life. Meanwhile, folk culture used apparitions to talk about morality and mortality. Focusing on the period from 1685 to 1830, this book provides the first academic study of the history of Scottish ghosts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, and examining beliefs across the social spectrum, it shows howghost stories achieved a new prominence in a period that is more usually associated with the rise of rationalism. In exploring perceptions of ghosts, it also reflects on understandings of death and the afterlife; the constructionof national identity; and the impact of the Enlightenment. MARTHA MCGILL completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh.Trade ReviewMcGill's thorough examination of the archive concerning ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland demonstrates the value of careful cultural historical work. * EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION *[A] pioneering study. [...] McGill has produced an extensive and well researched exploration of ghost lore. [A] welcome contribution to scholars across a wide variety of fields. -- INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SCOTTISH STUDIES[An] excellent study. * FOLKLORE *An excellent book that provides a new and effective approach to a complicated topic. * SCOTTISH CHURCH HISTORY *[A]n impressive entrylevel book into the cultural importance of ghosts in Scottish history and a most welcome addition to academic studies of the supernatural. * PRETERNATURE *An enticing, well researched study composed of five carefully structured chapters, each possessing a conclusion that elegantly synthesizes its main points. * REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES *Martha McGill's beautifully written study of ghosts as cultural signifiers provides an important contribution to a growing number of studies into the social and cultural significance of belief in the paranormal. . . . For those readers unconvinced of the value of studying belief in the supernatural as a way into understanding societies and cultures, I would encourage you to sit down with this book. If it does not change your mind, nothing will. And, even if your mind remains unchanged, it is a thoroughly enjoyable read. -- Christopher Partridge * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Medieval and Reformation Ghosts Evangelising Ghosts Scepticism and Debate Gothic and Romantic Ghosts Ghosts in Popular Culture Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn intriguing case study on how popular images of Oceania, mediated through a developing culture of celebrity, contributed to the formation of British identity both domestically and as a nascent imperial power in the eighteenth century. At the end of the eighteenth century metropolitan Britain was entranced by stories emanating from the furthest edge of its nascent empire. In the experience of eighteenth-century Britain, Oceania was both a real place, evidencedby the journals of adventurers like Joseph Banks, the voyage books of Captain James Cook and the growing collection of artefacts and curiosities in the British Museum, and a realm of fantasy reflected in theatre, fashion and the new phenomenon of mass print. In this innovative study Ruth Scobie shows how these multiple images of Oceania were filtered to a wider British public through the gradual emergence of a new idea of fame - commodified, commercial, scandalous - which bore in some respects a striking resemblance to modern celebrity culture and which made figures such as Banks and Cook, Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers on Pitcairn Island into public icons. Bringing together literary texts, works of popular culture, visual art and theatrical performance, Scobie argues that the idea of Oceania functioned variously as reflection, ideal and parody both in very local debates over the problemsof contemporary fame and in wider considerations of national identity, race and empire. RUTH SCOBIE is a Stipendiary Lecturer at Mansfield College, University of Oxford.Trade ReviewFor anyone interested in learning more about the reception of Cook's voyages and the rich variety of roles they played in metropolitan culture, this is an intriguing and comprehensive survey of the celebrity culture of the period. * COOK'S LOG *[T]he variety of literary and material examples [Scobie] integrates and the celebrity culture lens through which she contextualizes them are innovative. * EUROPEAN ROMANTIC REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction: "See modern fame" Otaheite and the scandal of celebrity The immortality of James Cook Consuming the Bounty mutiny Botany Bay and the limits of the public sphere Epilogue: The Unknown Public, and Tahiti as it Was Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "presence" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century. In the years following the 1737 Licensing Act, the English stage found itself for the first time facing serious competition from the novel - newly respectable and increasingly fashionable. But the story is not one of theatre's decline and the novel's rise. As Ros Ballaster shows in this lively and innovative study, the relationship between the two media was one of an intensely creative and productive rivalry. Novelists sent their heroes to the theatre, dramatists appropriated the plots of popular novels, the celebrity status of actors was advanced through guest appearances in printed prose fictions. Some figures, like Richardson's virtuous serving maid Pamela, or Sterne's eccentrichumourist Tristram Shandy, acquired such independent lives in the minds of the public that they migrated into the mainstream of popular culture. Fictions of Presence describes how major authors of the period - Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding, Charlotte Lennox and Oliver Goldsmith - spanned both genres. It charts the movement of popular fictional characters between stage and page. And it looks at the representation of contemporary audiences and readers in the new types of the (female) mimic and the (male) critic. Crucially, Ballaster delineates the ground over which the two media competed: the ability to create 'presence' - a sense of being present with the moment of action, of finding 'being' in fictional worlds - in the mind's eye of readers and theatregoers. In so doing, she not only illuminates the shared history of the theatre and the novel, but describes the power of aesthetic experience itself.Trade Review[T]his analysis of the theater-novel relationship is significant and goes beyond questions of influence or source study. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Being There Introducing the Author Eliza Haywood: Authoring Adultery Henry Fielding: Ghost Writing Charlotte Lennox: (In)dependent Authorship Oliver Goldsmith: Keeping up Authorial Appearances From Author to Character Introducing Characters Outdoing Character: Lady Townly The Sway of Character: Pamela The Expanse of Character: Ranger The Play of Character: Tristram From Character to Consumer Introducing Consumers The Mimic The Critic Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisExplores the political meanings that Italian opera - its composers, agents and institutions - had for audiences in eighteenth-century Britain. The reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) was pivotal for both politics and opera in Britain. In this study, Thomas McGeary brings together a wide range of sources to show how the worlds of politics and opera were entwined. The associations that Italian singing and singers acquired by the 1690s were used in partisan Whig-Tory writings. Rather than a foreign invasion, McGeary shows how the introduction of Italian-style opera was a native product that grew out of plans for a new theatre in the Haymarket. A crucial event for opera was Handel's arrival in London in 1710. While the criticism of opera by Whig writers such as Richard Steele and Joseph Addison is well known, McGeary uncovers how the early promotion and sponsorship of opera was, in fact, largely a Whig enterprise and cultural program. Indeed, major political figures (mostly Whigs) participated in the support and patronage of opera. Opera and Politics in Queen Anne's Britain will be required reading for opera scholars and cultural and political historians of eighteenth-century Britain, as well those interested in the vibrant literature culture of the period.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Opera in the English Manner 2 The Infiltration of Italian Music and Singing 3 Italian and English Singing and Partisan Politics 4 The Haymarket Theatre: A Whig Project 5 Whigs and Opera in the Italian Manner 6 1710: The Year of Great Change in Politics and Opera 7 Whigs Confront Opera: Britain at a Machiavellian Moment 8 Addison: Opera and the Politics of Politeness 9 The Whig Campaign for English Opera; Handel Celebrates the Peace Epilogue Appendix 1: Operatic Works Produced (or Known) in London, ca. 1660-1704 Appendix 2: Principal Independent Theatrical Masques Produced in London, 1676-1705 Appendix 3: Opera Performances by Season in London, 1705-1714 Appendix 4: Aria Types in All-sung Operas Produced in London, 1705-1714. Bibliography Index

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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 SynopsisIn the final decade of the eighteenth century, theatre was amongst the most important sites for redefining France's national identity. In this study, Annelle Curulla uses a range of archival material to show that, more than any other subject matter which was once forbidden from the French stage, Roman Catholic religious life provided a crucial trope for expressing theatre's patriotic mission after 1789.Even as old rules and customs fell with the walls of the Bastille, dramatic works by Gouges, Chénier, La Harpe, and others depicted the cloister as a space for reimagining forms of familial, individual, and civic belonging and exclusion.By relating the dramatic trope of religious life to shifting concepts of gender, family, religiosity, and nation, Curulla sheds light on how the process of secularization played out in the cultural space of French theatre.Trade Review'As well-written as it is meticulously researched, Annelle Curulla’s excellent first book not only illustrates the scholarly significance of Revolutionary theater, it also broadens our understanding of it.' Yann Robert, H-France ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: the cloister and the stageHistorical contextApproaches and sources1. Theatrical vocations: La Harpe’s Mélanie, ou la Religieuse (1770-1802)Mélanie’s instability: revisions to the text (1770-1802)Mélanie in the salonsFrom salon to stage: Mélanie in the Revolution (1790-1792)Reviving Mélanie (1796-1802)Conclusion2. Changing habits: the monastic trope as secularisation, 1790 and 1791Prisoners of the cloth: impossible love in monastic dramaTaking it off: secularisation as comedyOver the line? Plays that failedConclusion3. Dramaturgies of the cloister in Les Victimes cloîtréesPlaces of the forgotten: legends of monastic prisonsThe origins of the double sceneReading the double sceneConclusion4. Mother–daughter plots in monastic dramaThe pregnant nun in D’Alembert’s Eloge de Fléchier (1778)From sentimental to Gothic motherhood: Pougens’s Julie, ou la Religieuse de NîmesMaternal heroism in Olympe de GougesRepublican family values: Chénier’s Fénelon, ou les Religieuses de CambraiConclusion5. Brotherly orders: soldiers, monks and libertines in monastic comedyPersistent libertines: Les VisitandinesBrotherhood or else: La Partie carréePigault-Lebrun: fraternity between the sexesConclusionConclusion: lessons of the cloisterAppendix 1: examples of the monastic trope in Revolutionary dramaAppendix 2: bibliography of printed examples of the monastic tropeBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAlthough many historical narratives often describe the eighteenth century as an unalloyed ‘Age of Reason’, Enlightenment thinkers continued to grapple with the challenges posed by the revival and spread of philosophical skepticism. The imperative to overcome doubt and uncertainty informed some of the most innovative characteristics of eighteenth-century intellectual culture, including not only debates about epistemology and metaphysics but also matters of jurisprudence, theology, history, moral philosophy, and politics. Thinkers of this period debated about, established, and productively worked for progress within the parameters of the increasingly circumscribed boundaries of human reason. No longer considered innate and consistently perfect, reason instead became conceived as a faculty that was inherently fallible, limited by personal experiences, and in need of improvement throughout the course of any individual’s life. In its depiction of a complicated, variegated, and diverse Enlightenment culture, this volume examines the process by which philosophical skepticism was challenged and gradually tamed to bring about an anxious confidence in the powers of human understanding. The various contributions collectively demonstrate that philosophical skepticism, and not simply unshakable confidence in the powers of reason or the optimistic assumption about inevitable human improvement, was, in fact, the crucible of the Enlightenment process itself. Trade Review'All in all, this is a volume which should be read by every scholar of the eighteenth century, of the history of ideas, and of the history of religion.''The editors are to be congratulated for bringing to fruition this volume of essays, and for making a clear and convincing argument for the importance of skepticism in the Enlightenment.'Dorinda Outram, H-France Review * H-France Review *'The new wave of the scholarship on skepticism that emerges from this [book] is really impressive and will mark a cornerstone for the study of eighteenth-century philosophy.' Gianni Paganini, Erudition and the Republic of LettersTable of ContentsAnton M. Matytsin and Jeffrey D. Burson, Introduction: from an “age Of skepticism” to an “age Of reason” Jeffrey D. Burson, Healing the skeptical crisis and rectifying Cartesianisms: the notion of the Jesuit synthesis revisited Elena Rapetti, “A man who sticks only to his own sentiments”: Pierre-Daniel Huet’s Traité philosophique de la foiblesse de l’esprit humain Martin Mulsow and John Christian Laursen, Georg Michael Heber on legal and (possibly) religious skepticism in early Enlightenment Germany Sébastien Charles, George Berkeley, or the skeptic in spite of himself Rodrigo Brandão, Voltaire and modern skeptical doubt John P. Wright, Skepticism and incomprehensibility in Bayle and Hume Anton M. Matytsin, Taming thought with practice: philosophical skepticism in the Encyclopédie Alan Charles Kors, Political skepticism in Holbach’s circle Summaries Biographies of contributors Bibliography Index

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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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