Literature

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature

The Pretended Asian: George Psalmanazar’s Eighteenth-Century Formosan Hoax

Michael Keevak

A new look at the amazing career of Frenchman George Psalmanazar, who came to England at the start of the eighteenth century and successfully posed as a native of the island of Formosa.

Regency Radical: Selected Writings of William Hone

Edited by David A. Kent and D. R. Ewen

This diverse and lively selection of William Hone’s writings not only demonstrates his passion for justice and reform but also illuminates the political figures and social culture of the Regency period in England.

Mothering Daughters: Novels and the Politics of Family Romance, Frances Burney to Jane Austen

Susan C. Greenfield

An examination of the mother-daughter bond in eighteenth century fiction.

Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Nineteenth Century: Essays

Edited by Victoria Brehm

A collection of critical essays that offer new insights into Woolson and reintegrate her into nineteenth-century scholarship.

Diana of the Crossways: A Novel

George Meredith  •  Introduction by Nikki Lee Manos

First published in 1885, Diana of the Crossways advanced the cause of late-Victorian feminism in its depiction of a woman in the process of change as she attempts independence.