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Making History
By identifying a dialogical rather than monological relation between postmodern and Enlightenment discourses and texts, Making History offers a theoretically and historically nuanced account of eighteenth-century cultures, and makes a timely and original contribution to the study of the eighteenth century and its dialogue with postmodernism.
Johnson, Writing, and Memory
Examines Johnson's writing in relation to eighteenth-century thought on literature, history, fiction and law.
Consensual Fictions
In Consensual Fictions, Wendy S. Jones focuses on the English novel of the period to explore the relationship between married love, classic liberal thought, and novelistic form.
The Treatment
The Treatment is the story of one tragedy of medical research that stretched over eleven years and affected the lives of hundreds of people in an Ohio city. Thirty years ago the author, then an assistant professor of English, acquired a large set of little-known medical papers at her university. These documents told a grotesque story. Cancer patients coming to the public hospital on her campus were being swept into secret experiments for the U.S. military; they were being irradiated over their whole bodies as if they were soldiers in nuclear war. Of the ninety women and men exposed to this treatment, twenty-one died within a month of their radiations. Martha Stephens’s report on these deat...
Eighteenth Century English Literature
This engaging book introduces new readers of eighteenth-century texts to some of the major works, authors, and debates of a key period of literary history. Rather than simply providing a chronological survey of the era, this book analyzes the impact of significant cultural developments on literary themes and forms - including urbanization, colonial, and mercantile expansion, the emergence of the "public sphere," and changes in sex and gender roles. In eighteenth-century Britain, many of the things we take for granted about modern life were shockingly new: women appeared for the first time on stage; the novel began to dominate the literary marketplace; people entertained the possibility that ...
English Trader, Indian Maid
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Regendering the School Story
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Misogynous Economies
The eighteenth century saw the birth of the concept of literature as business: literature critiqued and promoted capitalism, and books themselves became highly marketable canonical objects. During this period, misogynous representations of women often served to advance capitalist desires and to redirect feelings of antagonism toward the emerging capitalist order. Misogynous Economies proposes that oppression of women may not have been the primary goal of these misogynistic depictions. Using psychoanalytic concepts developed by Julia Kristeva, Mandell argues that passionate feelings about the alienating socioeconomic changes brought on by capitalism were displaced onto representations that in...
The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing
This study, first published in 2000, examines the role of language as an instrument of empire in eighteenth-century British literature.
Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714
Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714 analyzes Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama in terms of empire.
