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Product Description: Eighteenth-century England witnessed major social and economic changes, including the commodification of property, person and text through legal containments--enclosure, coverture, primogeniture, copyright. English Gothic authors responded with tropes that worked to dispel the assurances of possession--the contested castle, the beleaguered yet enduring woman, the haunting ghost, the disjointed narrative--warning that seemingly mundane codes of ownership have menacing implications, such as the civil death of women through marriage...read more

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9780786498505 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, December 29, 2015, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Eighteenth-century England witnessed major social and economic changes, including the commodification of property, person and text through legal containments--enclosure, coverture, primogeniture, copyright.

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This groundbreaking study examines the vexed and unstable relations between the eighteenth-century novel and the material world. Rather than exploring dress's transformative potential, it charts the novel's vibrant engagement with ordinary clothes in its bid to establish new ways of articulating identity and market itself as a durable genre. In a world in which print culture and textile manufacturing traded technologies, and paper was made of rags, the novel, by contrast, resisted the rhetorical and aesthetic links between dress and expression, style and sentiment. Chloe Wigston Smith shows how fiction exploited women's work with clothing - through stealing, sex work, service, stitching, and the stage - in order to revise and reshape material culture within its pages. Her book explores a diverse group of authors, including Jane Barker, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, John Cleland, Frances Burney and Mary Robinson.

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9781107035003 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 31, 2013, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: This groundbreaking study examines the vexed and unstable relations between the eighteenth-century novel and the material world.

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9781316600931 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 21, 2016, cover price $29.99

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Product Description: The eighteenth century has long been acknowledged as a pivotal period in Shakespeare's reception, transforming a playwright requiring 'improvement' into a national poet whose every word was sacred. Scholars have examined the contribution of performances, adaptations, criticism and editing to this process of transformation, but the crucial role of fiction remains overlooked...read more

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9781107132405 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 2, 2016, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: The eighteenth century has long been acknowledged as a pivotal period in Shakespeare's reception, transforming a playwright requiring 'improvement' into a national poet whose every word was sacred.

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9781107108509 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 8, 2015, cover price $120.00

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9781611487091, titled "Disputed Titles: Ireland, Scotland, and the Novel of Inheritance, 1798–1832" | Bucknell Univ Pr, October 30, 2015, cover price $90.00

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By Nicholas Seager (editor)

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9781107054684 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2015, cover price $99.00

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Product Description: The complicated junctions negotiated by the novel during the eighteenth century reveal not only achievements but also exclusions. Misfit Forms offers a speculative reconstruction of roads less traveled. What if typographical emphasis and its associated transmission of sensuality and feeling had not lost out to "transparent" typography and its paradigms of sympathetic identification? What was truncated when cumulative narrative structures were declared primitive in relation to the unified teleological plot? What visions of the novel's value as an arena for experience were sidelined when novel reading was linked to epistemological gain?Reading novels by Sterne, Charlotte Bronte, Defoe, Gaskell, Hardy, and Woolf in tandem with less-known works, Nandrea illuminates the modes and techniques that did not become mainstream...read more

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9780823263431 | Fordham Univ Pr, January 2, 2015, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The complicated junctions negotiated by the novel during the eighteenth century reveal not only achievements but also exclusions.

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Product Description: During the later eighteenth century, changes in the meaning and status of literature left popular sentimental novels stranded on the margins of literary history. While critics no longer dismiss or ignore these works, recent reassessments have emphasized their interventions in various political and cultural debates rather than their literary significance...read more

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9780804791328 | Stanford Univ Pr, November 12, 2014, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: During the later eighteenth century, changes in the meaning and status of literature left popular sentimental novels stranded on the margins of literary history.

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9780813936239, titled "Utopian Geographies & the Early English Novel" | Univ of Virginia Pr, October 1, 2014, cover price $45.00

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Product Description: The rise and popular awareness of the science of probability in the eighteenth century was accompanied by an equally great interest in the anti-probable: lotteries, tarot readings, and gambling. In this original study, Jesse Molesworth analyses the relationship between realism, probability and chance in eighteenth-century fiction...read more

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9780521191081 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 23, 2010), cover price $99.99 | About this edition: The rise and popular awareness of the science of probability in the eighteenth century was accompanied by an equally great interest in the anti-probable: lotteries, tarot readings, and gambling.

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9781107425583 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 10, 2014), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: The rise and popular awareness of the science of probability in the eighteenth century was accompanied by an equally great interest in the anti-probable: lotteries, tarot readings, and gambling.

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Eighteenth-century fiction holds an unusual place in the history of modern print culture. The novel gained prominence largely because of advances in publishing, but, as a popular genre, it also helped shape those very developments. Authors in the period manipulated the appearance of the page and print technology more deliberately than has been supposed, prompting new forms of reception among readers. Christopher Flint's book explores works by both obscure 'scribblers' and canonical figures, such as Swift, Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, Sterne and Austen, that interrogated the complex interactions between the book's material aspects and its producers and consumers. Flint links historical shifts in how authors addressed their profession to how books were manufactured and how readers consumed texts. He argues that writers exploited typographic media to augment other crucial developments in prose fiction, from formal realism and free indirect discourse to accounts of how 'the novel' defined itself as a genre.

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9781107008397 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2011, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Eighteenth-century fiction holds an unusual place in the history of modern print culture.

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9781107422469 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 10, 2014), cover price $44.99

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Product Description: This study examines how debates about history during the French Revolution informed and changed the nature of the British novel between 1790 and 1814. During these years, intersections between history, political ideology, and fiction, as well as the various meanings of the term “history” itself, were multiple and far reaching...read more

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9781611484762, titled "The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790-1814: The Struggle for History's Authority" | Bucknell Univ Pr, November 21, 2012, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This study examines how debates about history during the French Revolution informed and changed the nature of the British novel between 1790 and 1814.

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Product Description: Political Magic examines early modern British fictions of exploration and colonialism, arguing that narratives of intercultural contact reimagine ideas of sovereignty and popular power. These fictions reveal aspects of political thought in this period that official discourse typically shunted aside, particularly the political status of the commoner, whose “liberty” was often proclaimed even as it was undermined both in theory and in practice...read more

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9780823256914 | Fordham Univ Pr, June 5, 2014, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Political Magic examines early modern British fictions of exploration and colonialism, arguing that narratives of intercultural contact reimagine ideas of sovereignty and popular power.

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9780321015501, titled "Inside Fashion Design" | 4th edition (Longman Pub Group, July 1, 1998), cover price $110.00 | also contains Inside Fashion Design

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9780719095580, titled "Women's Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750–1830" | Manchester Univ Pr, May 31, 2014, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction explores how the figure of the orphan was shaped by changing social and historical circumstances. Analysing sixteen major novels from Defoe to Austen, this original study explains the undiminished popularity of literary orphans and reveals their key role in the construction of gendered subjectivity...read more

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9781137382016 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 30, 2014, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction explores how the figure of the orphan was shaped by changing social and historical circumstances.

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Product Description: In this groundbreaking and wide-ranging study, Teresa Michals explores why some books originally written for a mixed-age audience, such as Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, eventually became children's literature, while others, such as Samuel Richardson's Pamela, became adult novels...read more

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9781107048546 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2014, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: In this groundbreaking and wide-ranging study, Teresa Michals explores why some books originally written for a mixed-age audience, such as Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, eventually became children's literature, while others, such as Samuel Richardson's Pamela, became adult novels.

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Product Description: Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered begins with the brute fact that poetry jostled up alongside novels in the bookstalls of eighteenth-century England. Indeed, by exploring unexpected collisions and collusions between poetry and novels, this volume of exciting, new essays offers a reconsideration of the literary and cultural history of the period...read more
By Kate Parker (editor) and Courtney Weiss Smith (editor)

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9781611484830 | Bucknell Univ Pr, December 24, 2013, cover price $80.00

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9781611487022 | Reprint edition (Bucknell Univ Pr, August 28, 2015), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered begins with the brute fact that poetry jostled up alongside novels in the bookstalls of eighteenth-century England.

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Product Description: Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with for years: why are many sentimental novels of the 1700s so pervasively and playfully self-conscious, and why is this self-consciousness so often directed toward the materiality of the printed word...read more

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9781137346339 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 13, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with for years: why are many sentimental novels of the 1700s so pervasively and playfully self-conscious, and why is this self-consciousness so often directed toward the materiality of the printed word?

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Product Description: Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel is the first in-depth study of Rowe’s prose fiction. A four-volume collection of her work was a bestseller for a hundred years after its publication, but today Rowe is a largely unrecognized figure in the history of the novel...read more

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9781421408422 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, February 4, 2013, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel is the first in-depth study of Rowe’s prose fiction.

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Product Description: This interdisciplinary volume of contributed essays focuses on issues of gender in the British novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly Hardy and Trollope. Approaching the topic from a variety of backgrounds, the contributors reinvigorate the law-and-literature movement by displaying a range of ways in which literature and law can illuminate one another and in which the conversation between them can illuminate deeper human issues with which both disciplines are concerned...read more
By Alison L. Lacroix (editor)

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9780199812042 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 4, 2013, cover price $82.00 | About this edition: This interdisciplinary volume of contributed essays focuses on issues of gender in the British novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly Hardy and Trollope.

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