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In this ambitious study of the relationship between theatrical culture and political crisis, Susan Owen builds her account of the Restoration stage around the Exclusion Crisis and the drama of the years 1678-83.

We are becoming increasingly aware that the transplantation of peoples from the Old World to the New was a complex business.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan would have found irony in his burial in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey. When Sheridan died in 1816, he had not written a play in seventeen years, his reputation as a playwright resting mainly on four comedies written in the 1770s.

At last, this long-awaited volume of essays has arrived. Saxton and Bocchicchio’s edition is the first critical book-length study devoted entirely to Eliza Haywood, and hopefully it is the forerunner of many to come. Thirteen thought-provoking essays, plus an introduction, illustrations and bibliography make this a valuable volume.

Thomas Ingersoll's richly detailed and painstakingly researched study of colonial and early republican New Orleans is an unusual contribution to the comparative historiography of slavery, unusual in that it actually does very little "comparing" in the strict and conventional sense of the term.

The essays in Inventing Maternity are arranged in chronological order, and by happy coincidence, the strongest essays open and close the volume.

Shaun Irlam's primary goal in this ambitious book, which is an expanded version of his dissertation, is to trace the transformation-or devolution-of a British rhetoric of enthusiasm from seventeenth-century religious usage to eighteenth-century critical and poetic practices.

In his masterful Accidental Migrations: An Archaeology of Gothic Discourse, Edward Jacobs burrows deeply into the idea and practice of Gothic discourse as it stretches across centuries, societies, and social groups.

In the Preface to Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson wrote: “It is no pleasure...to observe how much paper is wasted in confutation….The tide of seeming knowledge which is poured over one generation retires and leaves another naked and barren.” Even after decades of research, however, it seems that practically every book on Johnson must begin unpleasantly,…

The significance of this reference volume devoted to the organist and composer Samuel Wesley the youngest reveals itself in the very first sentence of the authors' "Preface": They have determined to celebrate "the extraordinary life" of the second surviving son of the Methodists' principal poet and the nephew of the founder and leader of that religious…

This collection gives an excellent overview of English-language work on the Critique of Judgment in recent decades.

Sometimes, to reverse an old adage, you can judge a book by its cover—or at any rate, in the case of Linda Troost’s and Sayre Greenfield’s Jane Austen in Hollywood, by its dust jacket.  Two thirds of the book’s front is taken up by a pencil sketch of Miss Jane herself, mired over her soles in wet concrete outside the Chinese Theater.