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Networks of Improvement
A new literary-cultural history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Working against the stubbornly persistent image of “dark satanic mills,” in many…
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Networks of Improvement
A new literary-cultural history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Working against the stubbornly persistent image of “dark satanic mills,” in many…
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PLOTS OF OPPORTUNITY
The working classes, colonial subjects, European nationalists, and Roman Catholics—these groups generated intense anxiety for Victorian England’s elite public, which often responded by accusing them of being dangerous conspirators. Bringing…
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Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
New in paperback! Scent is one of our strongest ties to memory. Scent is also both an essential and seemingly impossible-to-recover aspect of material cultural. While other intangibles of the…
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Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World
Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World, first published in 1720 and considered a sequel to The Farther Adventures…
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Shakespeare’s Reformation
This is a posthumously published collection of Nalin Ranasinghe’s sharp analyses of Shakespeare’s five heavy dramas: Hamlet, King John, Julius Caesar, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra. True to form,…
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