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Fictions of Anomaly, Race and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century
Felicity Nussbaum examines literary and cultural representations of human difference in England and its empire during the long eighteenth century. Wit...
Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater
In eighteenth-century England, actresses were frequently dismissed as mere prostitutes trading on their sexual power rather than their talents. Yet th...
Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England
Felicity Nussbaum's insights demand the attention of eighteenth-century scholars, feminist critics, and cultural historians, while the central questio...
English Satires on Women, 1660–1750
"Is it not monstrous, that our Seducers should be our Accusers? Will they not employ Fraud, nay often Force to gain us? What various Arts, what Strata...
Engendering the Modern Body
A groundbreaking contribution to the emerging field of disability studies in the eighteenth century...
Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives
Among the first books to consider issues of empire in relation to literary texts of the eighteenth century, Torrid Zones offers a compelling revision ...
John Rich (1692-1761)
John Rich (1692-1761) was a profoundly influential figure of the eighteenth-century London stage. As producer, manager and performer, he transformed t...
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