Culture and literature, indeed intellectual life as a whole, in eighteenth-century Britain were characterized by complex internal tensions as well as influenced

In an attempt to better account for the impressive diversity of positions and relations that characterizes the eighteenth-century world, this collection propose

This book examines the intersections between the ways that marriage was represented in eighteenth-century writing and art, experienced in society, and regulated

Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a busines

Novel Bodies examines how disability shapes the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century novelists represent disa