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Tropicopolitans consolidates and extends previous postcolonial forays into eighteenth-century studies, thereby reimagining the relation of postcolonial studies to literary and cultural scholarship more broadly.

Initially the title may seem to be a misnomer; some of the essays are indeed "critical essays" but the work is more accurately described as "Reactions to 'As You Like It' From 1600 to the Present." The book contains a variety of these "reactions" spanning the seventeenth, eighteenth (about a third of the total number of pages is devoted to material from or…

Music history has not become concerned with studying classics or canon nearly as quickly or fully as English literature.

It is no exaggeration to say that Paula R. Backscheider's Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre does for eighteenth-century women's poetry what has been done for women's novels over the last two decades or so by scholars including Ros Ballaster, Terry Castle, Catherine Gallagher, Jane Spencer, and Paula R.

Greuze's La Blanchisseuse (The Laundress) was very well received by critics at the Salon of 1761. But by 1983, when it was acquired by the Getty Museum, it had been largely overlooked by art historians for the simple reason that it had long belonged to a series of Swedish private collections not available for scholarly scrutiny.

Edmund Curll, Bookseller is the first full-length biography of Curll, the notorious London publisher, to appear since Ralph Straus’ The Unspeakable Curll in 1927.

Eve Tavor Bannet’s The Domestic Revolution performs a revolution of its own.

Janine Barchas’s Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel is one of the most interesting books to be published in eighteenth-century studies in the last decade.

Published in the reputable Oxford Historical Monographs series, Hannah Barker’s study fills a void in our understanding of several important areas of the financing, content, and readership of newspapers in eighteenth-century England.

Derisively dismissed for many years as "crack-brained," "Mad Madge," a woman of fantastical fashions, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle and her works are now being critically assessed and brought back from the margins.

Jerry Beasley's Tobias Smollett: Novelist fills a large gap, being the first book in almost twenty-five years to devote itself to a straightforward reading of all of the Scottish author's novels.

A conference at the Sorbonne in July 1999 gave rise to this welcome addition to Aphra Behn studies; an anthology of critical essays that deserves a place in any library serving Behn scholars and amateur readers.