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On 20 February 1806, Ephraim Wheeler, an illiterate and impoverished occasional farm hand who married into a mixed-race family, was executed in Lenox Massachusetts for the rape of his thirteen year-old daughter Betsy, alleged to have taken place on 8 June 1805.

Considering the recently released second edition of J. C. D. Clark's well known English Society 1660-1832 in the forthcoming Year's Work in English Studies (vol.

In the five decades following Ian Watt's influential The Rise of the Novel, many scholars have successfully complicated his canon-forming account of the novel's development.

“Mind numbing” is a phrase that succinctly and repeatedly describes the brutality of Thomas Thistlewood, whose diaries are the basis of Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire.

Reading Andrew Burstein’s Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America’s Romantic Self- is a disconcerting and frustrating experience.

Cañizares-Esguerra’s book deals with epistemological debates going on during the eighteenth century in Europe and Latin America regarding the New World.  It is of monumental proportions in terms of the sheer amount of research that it contains.

This book is a study not of the pleasures of travel but of the pleasures of travel writing. As Chloe Chard makes clear from the beginning, her interest lies "not with what was thought or felt about the foreign, but with what it was possible to say and write about it" (13).

In this eloquent and sophisticated book, Tita Chico elucidates the multiple and changing significations of the dressing room in eighteenth-century satirical writing and the domestic novel.

Samuel Richardson's New Nation is at once a comprehensive and a concise study of the peculiar brand of nationalism in the novels of Samuel Richardson.

Thomas Paine was one of the most influential political and religious writers of the late eighteenth century. He was born in Thetford, England, in 1737, the son of an expelled Quaker father and an Anglican mother.

English prints have recently been the subject of intense scholarly interest; over the past four years, a cluster of significant, useful, and beautifully illustrated books have appeared on this once-neglected subject.