Novel Bodies: Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Paperback - Jason S. Farr

DescriptionNovel Bodies examines how disability shapes the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century ...

Across the eighteenth century in Britain, readers, writers, and theater-goers were fascinated by women who dressed in men's clothing--from actresse...

This collection of essays re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It pr...

In The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature Ashley Dawson identifies the key British writers and texts, shaped by era-...

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Reducere. The Complexion of Race Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture Roxann Wheeler "A substantial contribution to the investigati...

DescriptionOver the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in...

Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives a wide cultural perspective of...

Through studies of the literature of Antoine Francois Prevost, Claude Crebillon, Pierre de Marivaux, and Francoise de Graffigny among others, Rutle...

Publisher: British Museum PressIllustration(s): 25 Illustrations, black and white; 245 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 20...

An important part of eighteenth-century maritime conflict involved the destruction of enemy commerce and the protection of home trade. Privateering...

DescriptionIntelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. Samara A. Cahill explores two overlapping strands ...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Evelyn S. RawskiNumber of pages: 270Publication date: 1989Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15Cover type: Paperbac...

Part Two of FourSmall Format: 6" x 9"The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you British Literature: From the M...

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The Other Rise of the Novel relies on new research concerning the relevance of bourgeois values and ideals in the early modern period in France to ...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Clare Walker GoreIllustration(s): 4 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 208Collection: E...

This book presents the first comprehensive publication of Lorenz Natter's (1705- 1763) Museum Britannicum, offering full discussion in English and ...

DescriptionNineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the global exchang...

This book examines the intersections among literary works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins, journalism, parliamentary...

Publisher: Modern Language Association of AmericaNumber of pages: 478Collection: Options for Teaching 30Publication date: 2010Cover type: Paperback...

Situated in a mid-Victorian moment of frenetic plant collecting from the far reaches of the British empire, Novel Cultivations recognises plants as...

A consortium of British architects and their patrons rebelled against the early eighteenth century's Baroque excesses and turned instead toward the...

This groundbreaking collection imagines disabled bodies as ""bodies in commotion"" - bodies that dance across artistic and discursive boundaries, c...

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In collaboration with History Ireland, the leading Irish history magazine publisher based in Dublin. The fourth title in P&S's new series 'Irish Pe...

This progressive handbook for Chinese medicine students/practitioners looks at gender, physiology, relationships and attraction from a Chinese medi...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Nadine Boehm-schnitkerNumber of pages: 220Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 149 x 225 x 21Cover type: Paperb...

In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways. Sarah Handley-Cousins e...

Delving into the interaction between satire and more serious forms of literature, Shane Herron overturns long-standing assumptions around genre and...

Shoplifting in Eighteenth-Century England examines the nature and impact on society of this commercial crime at a time of rapid retail expansion du...

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressIllustration(s): 15 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 15...

Reducere. In Curative Violence Eunjung Kim examines what the social and material investment in curing illnesses and disabilities tells us about the relations...

Description Contributions by: Robin Calland, Lauren Causey, Karen Coats, Sara K. Day, Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore, Anna Katrina Gut...

This book traces the turbulent history of queer visibility in the Irish media to explore the processes by which a regionally based media system sha...

Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights' by Medieval Arabs, as were cross eyes, lameness an...