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This book “historicizes” the British Enlightenment, 1650-1800, as the beginning of the modern world by reconstructing what it was like to live through the emergence of concepts and practices that have come to define the character of daily existence.

Exploratory and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 ranges over the expanse of long eighteenth-century culture. Welcoming research on all nations and language traditions, this annual escorts its readers into a truly global Enlightenment. Volume 29 includes essays on familiar topics such as Samuel Johnson and women’s education while it also showcases Sir Joseph Banks’s globetrotting and provides a vivaciously interdisciplinary special feature o...

Science Fusion in Contemporary Mexican Literature examines how Mexican authors use scientific knowledge and conceptual analogues to address issues in biopolitics, historiography, metaphysics, ethics, and ecological crisis in the age of the Anthropocene. By blending science and literature, these works reposition the human and offer fresh perspectives to address present-day sociocultural and environmental issues.

Science Fusion in Contemporary Mexican Literature examines how Mexican authors use scientific knowledge and conceptual analogues to address issues in biopolitics, historiography, metaphysics, ethics, and ecological crisis in the age of the Anthropocene. By blending science and literature, these works reposition the human and offer fresh perspectives to address present-day sociocultural and environmental issues.

Contemporary Francophone African Plays: An Anthology presents performable English translations of eleven West African plays, dating from 1970 to 2021. Works by Dadié, Labou Tansi, Zinsou, Liking, Pliya, Alem, Kwahulé, Éfoui, Akakpo, Mukagasana, and Diouf skewer colonization, grapple with identity, and retell history and myth from African perspectives.

Contemporary Francophone African Plays: An Anthology presents performable English translations of eleven West African plays, dating from 1970 to 2021. Works by Dadié, Labou Tansi, Zinsou, Liking, Pliya, Alem, Kwahulé, Éfoui, Akakpo, Mukagasana, and Diouf skewer colonization, grapple with identity, and retell history and myth from African perspectives.

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.

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.

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.

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 Joyce of Everyday Life is a lyrical romp through quotidian existence. This book challenges the curious reader to engage with Joyce's texts approaching fiction and language as mirrors of the self, and to use the resulting reflection to deepen connection with ourselves, others, and our relation to everyday experience.

The Joyce of Everyday Life is a lyrical romp through quotidian existence. This book challenges the curious reader to engage with Joyce's texts approaching fiction and language as mirrors of the self, and to use the resulting reflection to deepen connection with ourselves, others, and our relation to everyday experience.

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production is a scholarly work on Spanish religious and cultural history. It is an interdisciplinary study that offers fresh insights into political and religious changes in nineteenth-century Spain by foregrounding social experiences through historical analysis and literary criticism.

Nature Fantasies is a work of literary criticism and theory that presents and critiques a current of Latin American thought characterized by a desire to return to nature. It considers how nature fantasies involved in the decolonization and the formation of the Latin American nation state have turned into an engine of the state’s undoing.

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production is a scholarly work on Spanish religious and cultural history. It is an interdisciplinary study that offers fresh insights into political and religious changes in nineteenth-century Spain by foregrounding social experiences through historical analysis and literary criticism.

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.

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.

Space, Drama, and Empire examines the role that space played as a vehicle to imperialize Spain’s history in Lope de Vega’s theater. Lope’s national history plays, this book argues, used the landscapes and settings of the past to foretell and legitimize Spain’s imperial present and to “map” or plot its expansionist trajectory throughout the centuries.

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.

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.