This book argues that representations of popular culture in the eighteenth-century novel served as repositories of traditional social values and played a role i

This book argues that representations of popular culture in the eighteenth-century novel served as repositories of traditional social values and played a role i

Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain investigates the gendered, eroticized, and xenophobic ways in which the

Why have scholars located the emergence of the novel in eighteenth-century England? What historical forces and stylistic developments helped to turn a disreputa

In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term ’slavery’ to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the t