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The Politics of Custom in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
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Pages: 374
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This book argues that representations of popular culture in the eighteenth-century novel served as repositories of traditional social values and played a role i
Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination
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Pages: 228
Authors: Srividhya Swaminathan
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-06 - Publisher: Routledge

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In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term ’slavery’ to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the t
Effeminate Years
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Authors: Declan Kavanagh
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The Rise of the Novel
Language: en
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Why have scholars located the emergence of the novel in eighteenth-century England? What historical forces and stylistic developments helped to turn a disreputa
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This book examines eighteenth-century novels, with a focus on the skills that readers were expected to master in order to read these works. It analyses how such