Book of Donmon Teith

This important new book explores epistolary forms and practices in relation to important areas of British culture. Familiar ideas about epistolary fiction and p

In cities from Boston to Charleston, elite men and women of eighteenth-century British America came together in private venues to script a polite culture. By ex

The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and

The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women explores the vital and unexplored ways in which women's life writings acted to u

Informed by Jurgen Habermas's public sphere theory, this book studies the popular eighteenth-century genre of the epistolary narrative through readings of four