Queering the Enlightenment. Kinship and gender in eighteenth-century French literature, Paperback - Tracy Rutler

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

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 ...

Dobie explores the place of the colonial world in the culture of the French Enlightenment, tracing the displacement of colonial questions onto two ...

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

The Conversational Enlightenment traces the spread of the concept of conversation during the Enlightenment, including the project of politeness, th...

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

Through analysis of the life and writings of eighteenth-century Quaker artist and author Mary Knowles, Judith Jennings uncovers concrete but comple...

Publisher: Unicorn Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Philip KellewayIllustration(s): 110 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2021Dim...

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

Reducere. DescriptionThe French Traveler -- Letters to "Ch re Madame" Adventure, Exploration & Indian Life In Eighteenth-Century Canada The First English Tra...

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

Eighteenth-century France is understood to have been the dominant cultural power on that era's international scene. Considering the emblematic case...

An authoritative and accessible account of French literature from medieval romance to avant-garde poetry. It explores the medieval roots of modern ...

Drawing on border thinking, postcolonial and transnational feminisms and queer theory, Gender, Sexuality and Identity of the Borderlands brings an ...

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

This collection centres on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), active in Great Britain in the la...

Examines how and why marriage plots became the English novel's most popular form in the eighteenth century. This book will be of interest to studen...

In this book, David Porter analyses the processes by which Chinese aesthetic ideas were assimilated within English culture. Illustrated with many e...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Jocelyn (Independent Scholar, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK) AndersonIllustration(s): 8 colour ...

Embracing history and society, literature and theatre, medicine and religion, author and magician Ian Keable reveals our susceptibility to being du...

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

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

Theatrical gender-bending, also called drag, is a popular form of entertainment and a subject of scholarly study. However, most drag studies do not...

The first in a two-part volume offering an authoritative account of the relationship between literature and medicine during the eighteenth century....

Women in Wartime demonstrates the startling acuity and prescience of the repertoire in responding to the war-steeped culture of the period.Publishe...

Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds t...

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

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...

In Queering Bathrooms, Sheila L. Cavanagh explores how public toilets demarcate the masculine and the feminine and condition ideas of gender and se...

Explores the representation of everyday life across several disciplines in a century known for its interest in individual experience of the mundane...

This comprehensive work on the development of summary jurisdiction, early policing and the emergence of London's embryonic modern criminal justice ...

A blend of literary history, memoir, and self-help that shows how French literature can bring humor, happiness, and romance to our lives Like many ...

Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing, 1880–2012 - Emily Cuming

This collection of essays addresses the belly and the bowels as key elements in our understanding of eighteenth-century mentalities, emotions, and ...

In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to...

Queering Modernist Translation explores translations by Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and H.D. through the concept of queering translation. Queering...