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Combining literary and historical analysis, this book offers the first study of largely female-authored novels that used embedded letters and third-person narrative to explore reading and misreading, knowledge and ignorance, communication and credulity, challenging empiricism on its own ground in plots centred on mysteries of identity.

The final section features current trends in theory that illuminate new aspects of eighteenth-century studies. What does a postcritical eighteenth century look like? How does a study of multiple genres remake Irish studies? What is the role of eighteenth-century studies in today's Humanities?

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Gibson, Laura Davies, and Theresa Schoen and an afterword by Emma Salgard Cunha.

Leichman, Reginald McGinnis, Jack Iverson, Faycal Falaky, Ourida Mostefai, and Elena Russo.

During the 18th century, letter manuals became the most popular form of conduct literature

Explores transatlantic stories about women, servants, slaves and the poor as read and rewritten in eighteenth-century Britain and America.

A collection of new essays on the literary influences going backwards and forwards across the ocean.

This book explores transatlantic stories about women, servants, slaves and the poor as read and rewritten in eighteenth-century Britain and America.

Among the most frequently reprinted books of the long eighteenth century, English, Scottish and American letter manuals spread norms of polite conduct and communication which helped to connect and unify different regions of the British Atlantic world. Eve Tavor Bannet uncovers what people knew then about letters that we have forgotten, and revolutionizes our understanding of eighteenth-century letters, novels, periodicals, and other genres tha...

The first section of this volume consists of a panel, "Transnational Quixotes and Quixotisms, " introduced by Catherine Jaffe. It includes essays by Amelia Dale on how female quixotes differed from male quixotes in eighteenth-century England, by Elena Deanda on the Marquis de Sade as a quixotic figure, by Elizabeth Franklin Lewis on English travelers' uses of Spanish cartography, and by Aaron R. Hanlon on quixotism as a global heuristic, with ...

A collection of new essays on the literary influences going backwards and forwards across the ocean.

Alongside the three revolutions we usually identify with the long eighteenth century--the French Revolution, the American Revolution, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688--Enlightenment ideology gave rise to a quieter but no less significant revolution which was largely the fruit of women's imagination and the result of women's work. In The Domestic Revolution, Eve Tavor Bannet explores how eighteenth-century women writers of novels, conduct bo...

Structuralism and the Logic of Dissent is a fascinating and lucid exploration of the seminal writings of four eminent French structuralists that sheds new light on influential theoretical texts. Eve Tavor Bannet discusses the work of Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, and Lacan as coherent philosophical fictions, showing their contradictory political, social, and pedagogical implications and their complex historicity.

This lively, interdisciplinary book will change the way we read and interpret eighteenth-century letters.