The Language of Fruit: Literature and Horticulture in the Long Eighteenth Century 0812295838, 9780812295832

Comparative Practices: Literature, Language, and Culture in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century 9783839457993

Comparisons not only prove fundamental in the epistemological foundation of modernity (Foucault, Luhmann), but they fulf

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Common and Courtly Language: The Stylistics of Social Class in Eighteenth-Century British Literature 9781512818017

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Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature 9789048527380

The essays take on aspects of eighteenth-century texts such as plot, genre, character, perspective, temporality, and mor

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The World of Elizabeth Inchbald: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century 9781644532591

This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), active

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Politics and Literature in the Eighteenth Century 0874714052, 0874714001

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The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century 9781684484577

The Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and

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The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century: The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church 9780755692576, 9781845114404

David Hempton's history of the vibrant period between 1650 and 1832 engages with a truly global story: that of Chri

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The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century 1684484537, 9781684484539

The Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and

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The Concept and Practice of Conversation in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1688-1848 [Unabridged] 1847184979, 9781847184979

This collection of essays brings together eighteenth-century scholars from a variety of disciplines, to discuss conversa

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Heroines and Local Girls: The Transnational Emergence of Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century 9780812296365

In Heroines and Local Girls, Pamela L. Cheek explores the rise of women's writing as a distinct, transnational cate

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