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John Dixon Hunt has a very good eye. In this most visual of books, the stunning photographs, many of them shot by the author himself at locations across Europe, are juxtaposed with a superb selection of illustrations of eighteenth-century paintings, watercolors, and designs of some of the most celebrated gardens of the age.

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.

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.

In Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition, Anne Janowitz asks scholars to reconsider the role and place of communitarian poetics in both the development of romanticism proper and its role in the formation of a working class poetics of chartism and beyond.

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,…

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

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…

The pervasive classicism of the Restoration is one of its most distinctive intellectual traits, one that, thanks to our postmodern relativism, creates a substantial barrier between the writers of the late seventeenth century and our time.

Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage examines how categories of identity that repeatedly appear on stage in British drama of that period actively engage debates concerning the relationship of the body to theories of identity formation; the relationship between gender, class, and status; and the establishment of national identity.