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Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry recaptures for modern readers the urgency, distinctiveness and rewarding nature of this challenging and powerful ...

Is there such a thing as a female literary imagination – a special brand of insight and intuition that characterises women’s writing? Is there some...

Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry recaptures for modern readers the urgency, distinctiveness and rewarding nature of this challenging and powerful ...

A celebratory history and appreciation of the varied, wildly experimental nature of fiction in eighteenth-century England In this study intended fo...

This work offers an explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson to Donald Barthelme, ...

This text offers an explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen to Do...

Today we consider privacy a right to be protected. But in 18th-century England, privacy was seen as a problem, even a threat. Women reading alone a...

Is there such a thing as a female literary imagination – a special brand of insight and intuition that characterises women’s writing? Is there some...

After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childho...