Book of Donmon Teith

This book assesses the mediating role played by 'affections' in eighteenth-century contestations about reason and passion, questioning their availability and de

Author George Haggerty examines the ""unnatural"" affections that flout cultural taboos and challenge what are seen as natural boundaries to desire. Such affect

This book is a study of depictions of health and sickness in the early American novel, 1787-1808. These texts reveal a troubling tension between the impulse tow

"What did she say? – Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does." This book explores the act of declaring love in works of literature written between