Coquettes, Wives, and Widows
August 27, 2020
Marcie Ray’s new book Coquettes, Wives, and Widows: Gender Politics in French Baroque Opera and Theater is a timely and significant study of how composers and dramatists of early modern… READ MORE
Category: Studies in the Eighteenth Century
Fictions of Presence: Being Virtual and Virtual Being
August 19, 2020
Ros Ballaster’s new book reveals the relationship between the stage and the newly respectable and increasingly fashionable novel was one of an intensely creative and productive rivalry: novelists sent their… READ MORE
Jane Cumming: The Minister’s Wife
March 11, 2020
Frances B. Singh uncovers the life of Jane Cumming in her publication Scandal and Survival in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, from the University of Rochester Press. Most people, if they have heard… READ MORE
British Catholic Merchants in the Commercial Age, 1670-1714
January 21, 2020
Just published in our Studies in the Eighteenth Century series, Giada Pizzoni’s first book examines how, while considered marginal and suspect figures at home, British Catholics developed networks of powerful… READ MORE
Learned Lives in England, 1900-1950