Literature

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature

The Dragon and the Eagle: The Presence of China in the American Enlightenment

A. Owen Aldridge

New interpretations of the influence of Chinese culture on leaders of thought and Americans in general during the American Enlightenment.

America’s Continuing Story: An Introduction to Serial Fiction, 1850–1900

Michael Lund

A critical introduction to the serialization of American literature.

History and Myth: Essays on English Romantic Literature

Edited and Introduced by Stephen C. Behrendt

A collection of essays exploring the treatment of history among the major English Romantic poets and playwrights.

Gender at Work: Four Women Writers of the Eighteenth Century

Edited by Ann Messenger

Restores to light the unjustly neglected work of four profoundly different women writers—Mary Whateley, Anne Finch, Mary Pix, and Laetitia Pilkington—and contributes to the ongoing relationship of gender to discourse.

Reading Thackeray

Michael Lund

Examines how serialization affected the reading experience and meaning of Thackeray’s novels for his audience.