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  • Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750–1850

    by Anaïs Pédron, Clare Siviter, Ariane Fichtl, Chris Haffenden, Emrys Jones, Miranda Kiek, Antoine Lilti, Margaret Mason, Laure Philip0, Anna Senkiw1, Blake Smith2, Gabriel Wick3 ...
    Series series Performing Celebrity
    Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750-1850 is the first book to study and compare the concept of celebrity in France and Britain from 1750 to 1850 as the two countries transformed into the states we recognize today. It offers a transnational perspective by placing in dialogue the growing fields of celebrity studies in the two countries, especially by engaging with Antoine Lilti’s seminal work, The ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The 18th Century Today

    Literature and Media from Beauty and the Beast to Bridgerton

    Edited by Dr Madeleine Pelling, Dr Emrys D. Jones ...
    Exploring how 18th-century forms and narrative are taken-up, recycled and re-visioned in contemporary media, this book asks which histories are told and by whom. Through essays from international and multidisciplinary scholars and interviews with industry professionals, The 18th Century Today asks what function modern media performs when depicting the 18th century in our current world. Can such ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature

    The Politics of Private Virtue in the Age of Walpole

    by Emrys Jones ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's Opera, Gulliver's Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Antony and Cleopatra

    by William Shakespeare, Rene Weis ...
    'Shakespeare's play is death-haunted from the start, and its self-glorifying lovers exist in a dream of passion' GuardianA battle-hardened soldier, Antony is one of the three leaders of the Roman world. But he is also a man in the grip of an all-consuming passion for the tempestuous and alluring queen of Egypt, Cleopatra. And when their life of pleasure together is threatened by encroaching ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

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  • Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture

    Public Interiors

    Edited by Emrys D. Jones, Victoria Joule ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book provides an expansive view of celebrity’s intimate dimensions. In the process, it offers a timely reassessment of how notions of private and public were negotiated by writers, readers, actors and audiences in the early to mid-eighteenth century. The essays assembled here explore the lives of a wide range of figures: actors and actresses, but also politicians, churchmen, authors and ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Impolite Periodicals

    Reading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth Century

    by Emrys D. Jones, Adam James Smith, Katarina Stenke, Anthony Pollock, Jennifer Batt, Claire Knowles, Richard Squibbs, Jennifer Buckley0, Laura Davies1, Amélie Junqua2, Charlotte Roberts3, Manushag Powell4 ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    Studies of the eighteenth-century periodical have long tended to understand the form according to the period’s own insistence on adhering to and promoting politeness. In contrast, this collection reads for impoliteness, revealing a more nuanced, granular, and dynamic view of eighteenth-century periodicals such as Addison and Steele’s popular The Spectator, and a fuller sense of their value within ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Stage Mothers

    Women, Work, and the Theater, 1660–1830

    by Gilli Bush-Bailey, Marilyn Francus, Judith Hawley, Jade Higa, Emrys D. Jones, Ellen Malenas Ledoux, Kathryn Lowerre, Helen E.M. Brooks, J.D. Philopsen, Laura J. Rosenthal ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Stage Mothers explores the connections between motherhood and the theater both on and off stage throughout the long eighteenth century. Although the realities of eighteenth-century motherhood and representations of maternity have recently been investigated in relation to the novel, social history, and political economy, the idea of motherhood and its connection to the theatre as a professional, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Children's Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kimberley Reynolds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Bad Friend

    How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship

    by Tiffany Watt Smith ...
    A smart and thought-provoking memoir, history, and cultural critique about the turmoil and complexity of female friendshipOur culture today is inundated with narratives about the strength of female friendship, whether through images of girl power, BFFs, or work wives. Yet cultural historian Tiffany Watt Smith has always found her own life much messier. She has had dramatic friend breakups, ... Read more

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  • The Language Wars

    A History of Proper English

    by Henry Hitchings ...
    "Chock-full of historical and literary references . . . a fascinating, eye-opening look at the evolution of the English language." ― The Huffington PostThe English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter, and have always really been about contesting values—morality, politics, and class.The Language Wars examines the present state of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Defining the World

    The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary

    by Henry Hitchings ...
    "[A] marvelous account" of Johnson's towering achievement, nearly a decade of labor and linguistic fact-finding, presented by "a buoyant, zestful writer" ( The Boston Globe).By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature

    Edited by M. O. Grenby, Andrea Immel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling ... Read more

    $28.99 USD