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Tita Chico
On Wonder

This is an Element about wonder as an object, as a feeling, as an invitation to study, and as a way of thinking in both literary and scientific texts of the long eighteenth century. Wonder is at the hea…

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Gillian Russell
The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century

Often regarded as trivial and disposable, printed ephemera, such as tickets, playbills and handbills, was essential in the development of eighteenth-century culture. In this original study, richly illustr…

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Humour in Verse

Originally published in 1937, this anthology of humorous poems for the younger reader supplements the more serious material found in school anthologies.

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Sarah Green
Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence

Can sexual restraint be good for you? Many Victorians thought so. This book explores the surprisingly positive construction of sexual restraint in an unlikely place: late nineteenth-century Decadence. Rea…

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Tiffany Stern
Ballad Business

"In this first-ever account of the broadsheet ballads sold outside playhouses, Tiffany Stern reveals how ballads were product-placed in the plays of Shakespeare and Jonson, after plays as jigs by Tar…

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Catherine Packham
Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy

Why was Wollstonecraft's landmark feminist work, the Vindication of the Rights of Woman, categorised as a work of political economy when it was first published? Taking this question as a starting point, M…

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Leith Davis
Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688-1820

This Element has three objectives. First, it highlights the diversity of the nature of Jacobitism in the long eighteenth century by drawing attention to multi-media representations of Jacobitism and also …

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Mary Going
The Eternal Wanderer

The Eternal Wanderer: Christian Negotiations in the Gothic Mode provides new ways of reading the Gothicisation of the Wandering Jew. It argues that early Gothic writing conjured iterations of this figure …

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Thinking of the Medieval

Revealing the profound influence of the Middle Ages on mid-twentieth-century thought and the influence of these intellectual endeavours on present-day politics, art, and history, this interdisciplinary co…

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A History of English Georgic Writing

This volume surveys the literature of rural working lives and landscapes written in English between 1500 and the present day, offering a range of scholarly perspectives on the georgic tradition, with insi…

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Corrinne Harol
The Postsecular Restoration and the Making of Literary Conservatism

"Focused on conservative writers of the long Restoration, this book reveals a synergistic relationship between postsecularity and the modern sphere of literature. Its provocative account of the relat…

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Rob Harris
After Impressionism

Impressionist painting was the dominant art form of its time, and one to which English-speaking poets were profoundly responsive. Yet the relationship between impressionism and poetry has largely been ove…

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Melissa Dickson
Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science

"Focusing on moments of exchange between acoustic theories and evolving practices in fiction, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, philosophy, animal studies, and religion, this study ranges from Eliot'…

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Pramod K Nayar
Vulnerable Earth

Shows how the literature of climate crisis foregrounds a feature that humans and nonhumans, share, differentially, with the planet: vulnerability.

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Julialicia Case
Interactivity and Meta-Engagement in Digital Mystery Narratives

This Element provides an in-depth analysis of digital mystery game narratives through the lens of game studies approaches, game design principles, and literary theory. Beginning with an overview of import…

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Lauren Gillingham
Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

Offering a revisionist account of the history of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Lauren Gillingham contends that nineteenth-century novelists found in fashion a temporal model for ar…

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Julialicia Case
Interactivity and Meta-Engagement in Digital Mystery Narratives

This Element provides an in-depth analysis of digital mystery game narratives through the lens of game studies approaches, game design principles, and literary theory. Beginning with an overview of import…

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Peter Boxall
The Prosthetic Imagination

This book develops a new theoretical account of the historical role of the novel in fashioning our bodies and environments.

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Neil Ramsey
Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing

Military literature was one of the most prevalent forms of writing to appear during the Romantic era, yet its genesis in this period is often overlooked. Ranging from histories to military policy, manuals…

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Ann C Colley
Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom

When Coleridge described the landscapes he passed through while scrambling among the fells, mountains, and valleys of Britain, he did something unprecedented in Romantic writing: to capture what emerged b…

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