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British Romanticism and Prison Reform
By Jonas Cope
Bucknell University Press
British Romanticism and Prison Reform is the first full-length study to explore and define the close relationship between British Romantic literary texts, on the one hand, and the birth of the modern prison, on the other, giving long overdue attention to the revolution in punishment coterminous with the age we call Romantic.
Prolific Ground
Landscape and British Women's Writing, 1690-1790
Bucknell University Press
Prolific Ground investigates landownership as a crucial factor in the emergence of British women’s independence during the long eighteenth century. Staking a claim to the nation’s investment in land, women writers acquired a socio-political authority that otherwise eluded them. The landscapes that emerge in their writing testify to the socio-political power of land in this era.
Jane Austen and Masculinity
Edited by Michael Kramp
Bucknell University Press
Essays in this wide-ranging collection consider representations of men and masculinity in Jane Austen’s fiction and popular adaptations of her novels. As the first volume to specifically address this topic, Jane Austen and Masculinity makes an important critical intervention, and invites further research on gender and sexuality within Austen’s corpus.
Consuming Anxieties
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751
Bucknell University Press
Consuming Anxieties examines the varied representations of alcohol and tobacco products in literary satire from 1660-1751. Tracing the nuanced satirical treatments of these consumable items throughout the period, it considers understudied plays, poems, and essays alongside more canonical works, shedding light on critical responses to the rise of consumer culture.
The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art
Edited by Matthew Pethers and Daniel Diez Couch
Bucknell University Press
This collection maps the significance of fragmentary forms in early American literature and culture from the mid-seventeenth to mid-nineteenth century. The Part and the Whole recovers the distinct aesthetics of the incomplete, retelling the story of American culture by reorienting our collective understanding toward texts and objects that have often been critically ignored.
The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art
Edited by Matthew Pethers and Daniel Diez Couch
Bucknell University Press
This collection maps the significance of fragmentary forms in early American literature and culture from the mid-seventeenth to mid-nineteenth century. The Part and the Whole recovers the distinct aesthetics of the incomplete, retelling the story of American culture by reorienting our collective understanding toward texts and objects that have often been critically ignored.
Women and Music in the Age of Austen
Edited by Linda Zionkowski and Miriam F. Hart
Bucknell University Press
Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights women’s central role in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes their formative and lasting effect upon Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays reveals how music allowed for women’s self-expression, artistic influence, and access to communities that transcended the boundaries of gender, class, and nationality.
Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now
Pedagogy as Ethical Engagement
Edited by Kate Parker and Miriam L. Wallace
Bucknell University Press
Teacher-scholars of “the long eighteenth century” consider teaching in this historical moment. Essays link eighteenth-century content with pedagogical approaches that engage contemporary students as developing scholars. Authors reflect on what it is that we do when we teach—how our pedagogies can be more meaningful, more impactful, and more relevant.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now
Pedagogy as Ethical Engagement
Edited by Kate Parker and Miriam L. Wallace
Bucknell University Press
Teacher-scholars of “the long eighteenth century” consider teaching in this historical moment. Essays link eighteenth-century content with pedagogical approaches that engage contemporary students as developing scholars. Authors reflect on what it is that we do when we teach—how our pedagogies can be more meaningful, more impactful, and more relevant.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Louis Sébastien Mercier
Revolution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Bucknell University Press
This book examines Louis Sébastien Mercier’s impassioned representations of social injustice in Paris at the end of the eighteenth century. Mercier’s urban chronicles argue that society must enact Enlightenment values to educate the populace as a whole; otherwise, representative democracy and social equity are impossible to sustain, and widespread fanaticism is impossible to prevent.
Thomas Holcroft’s Revolutionary Drama
Reception and Afterlives
By Amy Garnai
Bucknell University Press
Thomas Holcroft’s Revolutionary Drama reintroduces Holcroft as a central figure in the 1790s and beyond. His life is examined alongside his plays, memoir, diary, and personal correspondence, along with the critical and popular response to his radical drama, showing how theater functions in times of political repression. Holcroft’s robust afterlife is also discussed, especially his play The Road to Ruin, revived worldwide throughout the nineteenth century.
Families of the Heart
Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
By Ann Campbell
Bucknell University Press
Families of the Heart introduces surrogate families as a new literary device for analyzing a set of novels by Defoe, Richardson, Haywood, and Burney. This radical convention with its feminist and egalitarian potential, Campbell argues, allowed female protagonists to navigate the social world before and beyond marriage across the long eighteenth century.
Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities
Edited by Jeremy Chow
Bucknell University Press
This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection demonstrates how eighteenth-century studies can be taught through the lens of the environmental humanities. Activating topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism to interpret eighteenth-century literature and culture, each essay includes recommendations for innovative teaching and learning.
Political Affairs of the Heart
Female Travel Writers, the Sentimental Travelogue, and Revolution, 1775-1800
Bucknell University Press
By examining four sentimental travelogues written by British women travelers during the American and French Revolutions, Political Affairs of the Heart argues that this genre, by combining eyewitness authority with the language of sensibility, constitutes a significant site of women’s engagement in national and gender politics.
The Limits of Familiarity
Authorship and Romantic Readers
Bucknell University Press
The Limits of Familiarity analyzes the intensely personal feelings that Romantic-era readers came to have for authors. Contributing to reception studies, celebrity studies, and literary history, this book reveals how anxieties about the cultural value of familiarity shaped both Romanticism and conceptions of authorship.
Robinson Crusoe after 300 Years
Edited by Andreas K. E. Mueller and Glynis Ridley
Bucknell University Press
This wide-ranging collection brings together eleven scholars who suggest new and unfamiliar ways of thinking about the 1719 publications The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and who ask us to consider the enduring appeal of “Crusoe,” more recognizable today than ever before.
Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843
Edited by Misty Krueger
Bucknell University Press
This collection examines images of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers in historical and literary works. The volume features women of a variety of races, ethnicities, and social classes traveling in all directions of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the people they encounter in their travels and residences.
Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843
Edited by Misty Krueger
Bucknell University Press
This collection examines images of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers in historical and literary works. The volume features women of a variety of races, ethnicities, and social classes traveling in all directions of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the people they encounter in their travels and residences.
Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey
A Legacy to the World
Edited by W. B. Gerard and M-C. Newbould
Bucknell University Press
Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy continues to be as widely read and admired as upon its first appearance. Deemed more accessible than Sterne’s Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and often assigned as a college text, A Sentimental Journey has received its share of critical attention, but—unlike Tristram Shandy—to date it has not been the subject of a dedicated anthology of critical essays. This volume fills that much-needed gap with fresh perspectives on Sterne’s novel that will appeal to students and critics alike. Together with an introduction that situates each essay within A Sentimental Journey’s reception history, and a tailpiece detailing the culmination of Sterne’s career and his death, this volume presents a cohesive approach to this significant text that is simultaneously grounded and revelatory.
Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey
A Legacy to the World
Edited by W. B. Gerard and M-C. Newbould
Bucknell University Press
Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy continues to be as widely read and admired as upon its first appearance. Deemed more accessible than Sterne’s Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and often assigned as a college text, A Sentimental Journey has received its share of critical attention, but—unlike Tristram Shandy—to date it has not been the subject of a dedicated anthology of critical essays. This volume fills that much-needed gap with fresh perspectives on Sterne’s novel that will appeal to students and critics alike. Together with an introduction that situates each essay within A Sentimental Journey’s reception history, and a tailpiece detailing the culmination of Sterne’s career and his death, this volume presents a cohesive approach to this significant text that is simultaneously grounded and revelatory.
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