18th Century Literature

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The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830

Edited by Diane Piccitto & Terry F. Robinson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, 18th Century Literature

Provides fresh perspectives on the Romantic era through a focus on the visual nature and impact of the stage

Owning Performance | Performing Ownership

Literary Property and the Eighteenth-Century British Stage

By Jane Wessel
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Law, Intellectual Property, Literary Studies, 18th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures

How playwrights, actors, and theater managers vied for control over the performance of popular plays after the passage of England’s first copyright law

Scenes from Bourgeois Life

By Nicholas Ridout
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, 18th Century Literature
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Reveals theatre’s central role in the formation of bourgeois subjectivity

Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss

By Emily Hodgson Anderson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, 18th Century Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

How Garrick and company resurrected Shakespeare, guaranteeing his immortality—and theirs 

Spectacular Disappearances

Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801

By Julia H. Fawcett
Subjects: Literary Studies, 18th Century Literature, Theater and Performance

A look at England’s larger-than-life figures in the 18th century shines a spotlight on contemporary celebrity

The First Actresses

From Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons

Edited by National Portrait Gallery
By Gill Perry, Joseph Roach, and Shearer West
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Art History, Gender Studies, Literary Studies, 18th Century Literature, Reference

Portraits of the earliest actresses and what they convey about a once-disreputable profession

Risk Culture

Performance and Danger in Early America

By Joseph Fichtelberg
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies, American Literature, 18th Century Literature, Cultural Studies

Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days

Lewd and Notorious

Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century

Edited by Katharine Kittredge
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, 18th Century Literature, Sexuality Studies

Hags, tarts, killers, and freaks--this compelling collection explores the representations of eighteenth-century female aberrations and grotesques

"Defects"

Engendering the Modern Body

Edited by Helen Elizabeth Deutsch & Felicity Nussbaum
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 18th Century Literature, 19th Century Literature
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

A groundbreaking contribution to the emerging field of disability studies in the eighteenth century

Naming Properties

Nominal Reference in Travel Writings by Basho and Sora, Johnson and Boswell

By Earl Miner
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Asian Studies, Philosophy, 18th Century Literature

An unprecedented comparison of three classics of Japanese and English travel literature

Joan of Arc

By Jules Michelet
Translated by Albert Guerard
Subjects: History, Literary Studies, 18th Century Literature
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Recreates Joan's mission, betrayal, and death

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