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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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Douglas Clark
The Will in English Renaissance Drama

Douglas Clark reveals how moments of willing and will-making pervade English Renaissance drama and play a crucial role in the depiction of selfhood, sin, sociality, and succession. This wide-ranging study…

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Paul Joseph Zajac
Emotion and the Self in English Renaissance Literature

This book offers the first full-length study of early modern contentment, the emotional and ethical principle that became the gold standard of English Protestant psychology and an abiding concern of Engli…

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Patrick Vincent
Romanticism, Republicanism, and the Swiss Myth

"The first detailed treatment of Switzerland in British literature and culture from Joseph Addison to John Ruskin, this book analyzes the aesthetic and political uses of what is commonly called the '…

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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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Percy Bysshe Shelley,
The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

The latest volume of the acclaimed and magisterial Hopkins Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetry, covering the years 1818 to early 1820, the first phase of Shelley's Italian period.Volume Four in…

lieferbar ab 4.11.2025.

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Joseph Taylor
Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages

"Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages offers a literary history of the North-South divide, examining the complexities of the relationship - imaginative, material, and political - between N…

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Elizabeth Hodgson
The Masculinities of John Milton

The first published book on John Milton's masculinities, this study shows how a revolutionary poet preached liberty yet elevated manly authority. Building on his era's practices of war, education, sociali…

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Elena Emma Sottilotta
Seekers of Wonder

"This book reappraises women's contribution to the field of folklore and fairy-tale studies in Italy and Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by exploring their role as preser…

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Natalie Pollard,
21st-Century Climate Imaginaries

Adopting a comparative approach, this book argues that many iconic 21st-century metaphors and images used to communicate climate change and ecological crisis actually conceal the destructive foundations o…

lieferbar ab 13.11.2025.

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Mary Newbould
Networks of Reception in the Eighteenth-Century British Press and Laurence Sterne

Criticism and creativity characterised literary reception in eighteenth-century Britain. The press - periodicals, newspapers, and magazines - harboured the reviewing cultures belonging to the emerging pro…

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The Cambridge Companion to British Literature and Empire

The volume outlines modern British literature's relation to global empire from the 16th century to the present. Spanning the interactions between Britain, Europe, and the world outside, in Asia, Africa, A…

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Mary Newbould
Networks of Reception in the Eighteenth-Century British Press and Laurence Sterne

Criticism and creativity characterised literary reception in eighteenth-century Britain. The press - periodicals, newspapers, and magazines - harboured the reviewing cultures belonging to the emerging pro…

lieferbar ab 31.10.2025.

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'The People' and British Literature

Why do invocations of 'the people' carry such force in current political discourse and public debate? This book offers an ambitiously transhistorical account of the ways that 'the people' has figured in B…

lieferbar ab 31.12.2025.

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Yael Shapira
Biography and the Trade-Gothic Author

This Element argues for the value of biography in studying trade Gothic - that is, Gothic novels published by unprestigious trade publishers during the Romantic period. As Section 1 argues, biography has …

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Céline Sabiron
Unveiling Lady Scott

This Element sheds new light on Walter Scott's work by investigating the French influence of his wife, Charlotte Charpentier, later Lady Scott, through her transcultural upbringing and international conne…

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Jonathan P Lamb
How the World Became a Book in Shakespeare's England

Human beings build their worlds using metaphors. Just as computer technology has inaugurated a massive metaphorical transformation in the present era, in which we can 'reboot' social causes or 'program' h…

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Yael Shapira
Biography and the Trade-Gothic Author

This Element argues for the value of biography in studying trade Gothic - that is, Gothic novels published by unprestigious trade publishers during the Romantic period. As Section 1 argues, biography has …

lieferbar ab 30.11.2025.

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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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Simon Goldhill
Queer Cambridge

Queer Cambridge recounts the untold story of a gay community living, for many decades, at the very heart of the British Establishment. Making effective use of chiefly forgotten archival sources - includin…

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