The essays collected in this volume engage in a conversation among lexicography, the culture of the book, and the canonization and commemoration of English lite

Hitherto relegated to the closets of art history and literary studies, book illustration has entered mainstream scholarship. The chapters of this collection off

This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experience occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century. Th

Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds to collecting,

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