18th Century Literature Books

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31. Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century

    By Pamela J. Albert

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century revisits eighteenth-century cultural artifacts through the lens of creative works produced by contemporary writers Beryl Gilroy (Guyana), Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), and David Dabydeen (Guyana). While early studies...

    Published November 12th 2007 by Routledge
32. Imperial Eyes

    Travel Writing and Transculturation, 2nd Edition

    By Mary Louise Pratt

    Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field....

    Published September 26th 2007 by Routledge
33. English Writing and India, 1600–1920

    Colonizing Aesthetics

    By Pramod K. Nayar

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period. Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian...

    Published September 11th 2007 by Routledge
34. Novel Notions

    Medical Discourse and the Mapping of the Imagination in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction

    By Katherine E. Kickel

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Medical, popular, and literary understanding about the imagination converged when Thomas Willis asserted that he had discovered the area of the brain that facilitated imagining. Taking this 'discovery' as paradigmatic, Novel Notions examines the reverberations of the medical investigation of the...

    Published May 7th 2007 by Routledge
35. Early English Novelists

    Critical Heritage Set

    Edited by B.C. Southam

    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves....

    Published March 8th 2007 by Routledge
36. 18th Century Literature

    Critical Heritage Set

    Edited by B.C. Southam

    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves....

    Published March 8th 2007 by Routledge
37. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

    A Routledge Study Guide

    Edited by Roger D. Lund

    Series: Routledge Guides to Literature

    An extremely complex, yet widely studied text, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels ranks as one of the most scathing satires of British and European society ever published. Students will therefore welcome the publication of Roger Lund’s sourcebook, which provides a clear way through the wealth of...

    Published June 14th 2006 by Routledge
38. Jane Austen

    By Robert P. Irvine

    Series: Routledge Guides to Literature

    Jane Austen is one of England's most enduringly popular authors, renowned for her subtle observations of the provincial middle classes of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England.This guide to Austen's much-loved work offers: an accessible introduction to the contexts and many...

    Published February 28th 2005 by Routledge
39. Ossian & Ossianism V1

    Edited by Dafydd Moore

    Published November 10th 2004 by Routledge
40. Ossian & Ossianism V2

    Edited by Dafydd Moore

    Published November 10th 2004 by Routledge