This book argues that representations of popular culture in the eighteenth-century novel served as repositories of traditional social values and played a role i

This book argues that representations of popular culture in the eighteenth-century novel served as repositories of traditional social values and played a role i

In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term ’slavery’ to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the t

Why have scholars located the emergence of the novel in eighteenth-century England? What historical forces and stylistic developments helped to turn a disreputa

This book examines eighteenth-century novels, with a focus on the skills that readers were expected to master in order to read these works. It analyses how such