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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"eighteenth-century British literature"”.
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Scaffold Fiction: Execution and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
… in every other case but their own. But in the eighteenth century, the fictional scaffold acquired new significance: it deepened a Gothic or sublime tone, tested reader and character sensibility, and eventually challenged the judicial status quo. The reliance on the scaffold to generate …
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Wayward Women, Virtuous Violence: Feminine Violence in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature by Women
… feminine violence in Restoration and eighteenth-century drama and fiction. Scenes such as Lady Davers's physical assault on Pamela in Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) have understandably troubled recent scholars of gender and literature. But critics, for the most part, have been more …
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(IL)Legitimate Problems: Instances of Queer Familial Creation and the Reinforcement of Patriarchal Structure in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
… a queer lens to investigate five novels from eighteenth century Britain that use queer themes to reinforce the patriarchal and heteronormative power structure of eighteenth-century society. The first two chapters will focus on sapphic sexual initiations and the implications of female same-sex …
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The Secret History of the English Spy: 1674-1800
… project traces the emergence of the spy in the literature of the eighteenth century, arguing for spying's ideological transition within the cultural and literary imagination from a profession to a way of being. At stake in "The Secret History of the English Spy: 1674-1800" is the idea that …
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The Romantic Reinvention of Imperial China, 1759–1857
… of Imperial China" argues that Romantic literature shaped nineteenth-century interimperial exchanges between Britain and China. This project bridges two bodies of literary scholarship immersed in Anglo-Sino discourse: eighteenth-century scholarship, which reveals British perceptions of …
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Appropriating the Restoration hero(ine): intertextuality and the transformation of gender identity, 1677-1759
… had a profound impact on the development of mid-eighteenth century novels and plays, focusing primarily on the work of Aphra Behn, Thomas Southerne, John Dryden, Samuel Richardson and David Garrick. Previous scholarship on Restoration ""she-tragedies"" has tended to emphasize how their heroines’ …