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An introspective narrative that unfolds in a fluid musical style, Two Women was the first full-fledged feminist novel to appear in the Hispanic lands, promoting visionary ideas on women's freedom of thought and action that are still subjects of debate today, nearly two centuries later. This is the first English translation of the novel.

Presents to a wide readership scholarly articles and essays and searching book reviews, all featuring a variety of approaches. Volume 24 features commentary on a range of Johnsonian topics, including his reaction to Milton, his relation to the Allen family, his notes in his edition of Shakespeare, and his use of Oliver Goldsmith in his Dictionary.

Explores representations of late seventeenth- to mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travellers. The volume highlights the resilience of women who ventured voluntarily and by force across the Atlantic - some seeking mobility, adventure, knowledge, wealth, and freedom, and others surviving subjugation, capture, and enslavement.

Explores the last six novels by Spains most honoured contemporary woman writer. Its scholarship is enriched by the voice of Calila herself - as Brown called MartIn Gaite, who was a dear friend - as they conversed and exchanged letters during the composition of the novels.

Explores representations of late seventeenth- to mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travellers. The volume highlights the resilience of women who ventured voluntarily and by force across the Atlantic - some seeking mobility, adventure, knowledge, wealth, and freedom, and others surviving subjugation, capture, and enslavement.

This unique illustrated volume collects over 800 examples of Voltaire's wit and wisdom, on topics from adultery to Zoroaster, in both English and French. Along with a scholarly essay on Voltaire's life and legacy, it also features more than 400 quotes about Voltaire, by everyone from Catherine the Great to Mike Tyson.

Brings together eleven scholars who suggest new and unfamiliar ways of thinking about this most familiar of works, and who ask us to consider the enduring appeal of 'Crusoe', more recognisable today than ever before.

For two centuries, scholars have considered the ephemeral writing of James Boswell - his periodical writing, his pamphlets, and his broadsides - unworthy of serious critical attention because it is too topical, too superficial, or too trivial to advance our study of Boswell or his literary career. This volume challenges that assessment.

Brings together eleven scholars who suggest new and unfamiliar ways of thinking about this most familiar of works, and who ask us to consider the enduring appeal of 'Crusoe', more recognisable today than ever before.

For two centuries, scholars have considered the ephemeral writing of James Boswell - his periodical writing, his pamphlets, and his broadsides - unworthy of serious critical attention because it is too topical, too superficial, or too trivial to advance our study of Boswell or his literary career. This volume challenges that assessment.

Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy continues to be as widely read and admired as upon its first appearance. This volume offers fresh perspectives on Sterne's novel that will appeal to students and critics alike.

Explores Colombia's violent colonial history by examining three seventeenth-century historical accounts of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia and Venezuela), each of which reveals the colonizing elite's reliance on a constant threat of violence for sustaining colonial order.

Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy continues to be as widely read and admired as upon its first appearance. This volume offers fresh perspectives on Sterne's novel that will appeal to students and critics alike.

Analyses literary constructions of locality from the early 1990s to the mid-2010s. Raynor reads work by Luiz Ruffato, Wilson Bueno, Roberto Bolano, Joao Gilberto Noll, Joao Gilberto Noll, and Bernardo Carvalho to reveal representations of the human experience that unsettle conventionally understood links between locality and geographical place.

Explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century. In eight case studies and a substantial introduction, the volume examines relationships between individuals and institutions, precursors to modern networks that engaged in forms of intercultural exchange.

Association and Enlightenment focuses on the distinctive and complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. This edited volume offers a new approach to their history, bringing together the polite culture of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment with the broader context of associational patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond.

A unique collection that offers in-depth analyses of fifteen different films, each by a different director, produced in Iberian Peninsula over the past fifty years. Together, they show how queer Iberian cinema has responded to historical traumas ranging from the AIDS crisis to the repressive and homophobic Franco regime.

A unique collection that offers in-depth analyses of fifteen different films, each by a different director, produced in Iberian Peninsula over the past fifty years. Together, they show how queer Iberian cinema has responded to historical traumas ranging from the AIDS crisis to the repressive and homophobic Franco regime.

Recognising distance as a central concern of the Enlightenment, this volume offers eight essays on distance in art and literature; on cultural transmission and exchange over distance; and on distance as a topic in science, a theme in literature, and a central issue in modern research methods.

Recognising distance as a central concern of the Enlightenment, this volume offers eight essays on distance in art and literature; on cultural transmission and exchange over distance; and on distance as a topic in science, a theme in literature, and a central issue in modern research methods.

Association and Enlightenment focuses on the distinctive and complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. This edited volume offers a new approach to their history, bringing together the polite culture of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment with the broader context of associational patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond.

Explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century. In eight case studies and a substantial introduction, the volume examines relationships between individuals and institutions, precursors to modern networks that engaged in forms of intercultural exchange.