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William Blake's Visions Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia
This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his ‘visions’ can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions...
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William Blake's Manuscripts Praxis, Puzzles, and Palimpsests
This collection of essays examines how close analysis of William Blake’s manuscripts can yield new discoveries about his techniques, his working...
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The Shelleyan Brontës Mary and Percy Shelley in the Work of the Brontës
This book explores the significant textual relationship between Mary and Percy Shelley and the early works of the Brontë siblings. Through a detailed...
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Character and Caricature, 1660-1820
This edited collection offers a reappraisal of character as a precondition for caricature and addresses how the two began to merge, becoming...
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Coleridge's Political Poetics Radicalism and Whig Verse 1794 - 1802
This book considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s engagement with ‘Whig poetry’: a tradition of verse from the eighteenth century which celebrated the...
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Della Cruscan Poetry, Women and the Fashionable Newspaper
This book explores Della Cruscan poetry in the late eighteenth-century literary scene. A sociable, ornate, and deeply theatrical type of poetry,...
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Frances Burney’s “Evelina” The Book, its History, and its Paratext
Evelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public. Tracing its publication history...
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Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year and Covid-19 A Tale of Two Pandemics
Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Yearhas taken on a new relevance with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic. Through an exploration of two...
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William Blake and the Visionary Law Prophecy, Legislation and Constitution
This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in...
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Polish Culture in Britain Literature and History, 1772 to the Present
This edited volume explores the historical, cultural and literary legacies of Polish Britain, and their significance for both the British and Polish...
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The Arms-Bearing Woman and British Theatre in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1815
This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a period in which she comes to stand...
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David Bowie and Romanticism
David Bowie and Romanticism evaluates Bowie’s music, film, drama, and personae alongside eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets, novelists, and...
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The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This volume explores ‘the labyrinth of what we call Coleridge’ (Virginia Woolf): his poems and prose, their sources, interpretation and reception;...
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Anonymity in Eighteenth-Century Italian Publishing The Absent Author
This book focuses on the different forms in which authorship came to be expressed in eighteenth-century Italian publishing. It analyses both the...
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Jane Austen and Reflective Selfhood Rereading the Self
This book makes connections between selfhood, reading practice and moral judgment which propose fresh insights into Austen’s narrative style and...
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Frances Burney and the Arts
This collection of essays by leading scholars in Burney studies provides an innovative, interdisciplinary critical consideration of the relationship...
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Allegory in Enlightenment Britain Literary Abominations
This Palgrave Pivot argues for the significance of allegory in Enlightenment writing. While eighteenth-century allegory has often been dismissed as...
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Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture
This book explores how two early modern and two modern Japanese writers – Yosa Buson (1716–83), Ema Saikō (1787–1861), Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902), and...
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Gothic Romanticism Wordsworth, Architecture, Politics, Form
Gothic Romanticism: Wordsworth, Architecture, Politics, Formoffers a revisionist account of both Wordsworth and the politics of antiquarianism in...
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British Sociability in the European Enlightenment Cultural Practices and Personal Encounters
This volume covers a broad range of everyday private and public, touristic, commercial and fictional encounters between Britons and continental...
