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  • 1650-1850

    Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 30)

    Series series 1650-1850
    Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 covers the full expanse of long-eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays on well-known cultural figures combine with studies of emerging topics to unveil a vivid rendering of a dynamic period, simultaneously committed to singular genius and universal improvement.The ... Read more

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  • Louis Sébastien Mercier

    Revolution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Paris

    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    French playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his prolific oeuvre but today remains an understudied writer. In this penetrating study—the first in English devoted to Mercier in decades—Michael Mulryan explores his unpublished writings and urban chronicles, Tableau de Paris ... Read more

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  • Eighteenth-Century Escape Tales

    Between Fact and Fiction

    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    This volume is a study of the interdisciplinary nature of prison escape tales and their impact on European cultural identity in the eighteenth century. Prison escape narratives are reflections of the tension between the individual’s potential happiness via freedom and the confines of the social order. Contemporary readers identified with the prisoner, who, like them suffered the injustices of an ... Read more

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