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Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies


About the Series

The long eighteenth century sits as a pivotal point between the early-modern and modern worlds. By actively encouraging an international focus for the series over all, both in terms of wide-ranging geographical topics and authorial locations, the series aims to feature cutting-edge research from established and recent scholars, and capitalize on the breadth of themes and topics that new approaches to research in the period reveal. This series provides a forum for recent and established historians to present new research and explore fresh approaches to culture and society in the long eighteenth century. As a crucial period of transition, the period saw developments that shaped perceptions of the place of the individual and the collective in the construction of the modern world. Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies is a series that is globally ambitious in scope and broad in its desire to publish cutting-edge research that takes an innovative, multi-vocal and increasingly holistic approach to the period. The series will be particularly sensitive to questions of gender and class, but aims to embrace and explore a variety of fresh approaches and methodologies.

This series wishes to become the first point of call for scholars and students interested in this period by capturing, promoting and disseminating exciting new socio-cultural research. The editors seek proposals for book-length studies from individual or multiple authors that focus on aspects of British, European or transnational culture and society for the period c.1680–1850. While proposals for regional/national case studies are welcome, all authors in the series will be expected to situate their research, historically and historiographically, in a wider international framework in order to ensure that it is accessible to students as well as scholars. Theoretically informed research will need to be presented clearly and accessibly. We envision volumes of 90,000–120,000 words in length (inclusive) and illustrated with c.15 – 20 images.


Series Editors:

Elaine Chalus: [email protected]

Deborah Simonton: [email protected]

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Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion Public Justice

Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion: Public Justice

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Katie Barclay, Amy Milka
May 27, 2024

Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion: Public Justice explores how the legal history of long-eighteenth-century Britain has been transformed by the cultural turn, and especially the associated history of emotion. Seeking to reflect on the state of the field, 13 essays by leading and emerging...

Gender, Space and Illicit Economies in Eighteenth-Century Europe Uncontrolled Crossings

Gender, Space and Illicit Economies in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Uncontrolled Crossings

1st Edition

By Anne Montenach
February 23, 2024

This book seeks to contribute a multi-dimensional, multi-layered and gendered approach to the illicit economy in the historiography of early modern Europe.   Using original source material from several countries, this volume concentrates on a border and transnational area—approximately the ...

Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760–1830

Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760–1830

1st Edition

By Susan Dalton
October 11, 2023

Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760–1830, examines how women with enough cultural capital could turn their identity as representatives of "the public" – those on the receiving end of education – to their advantage, producing knowledge under the guise of relaying it. Author ...

Venanzio Rauzzini and the Birth of a New Style in English Singing Scandalous Lessons

Venanzio Rauzzini and the Birth of a New Style in English Singing: Scandalous Lessons

1st Edition

By Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland
September 25, 2023

Since the eighteenth century, the one-to-one singing lesson has been the most common method of delivery. The scenario allows the teacher to familiarise and individualise the lesson to suit the needs of their student; however, it can also lead to speculation about what is taught. More troubling is ...

Letters and the Body, 1700–1830 Writing and Embodiment

Letters and the Body, 1700–1830: Writing and Embodiment

1st Edition

Edited By Sarah Goldsmith, Sheryllynne Haggerty, Karen Harvey
July 04, 2023

This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of women's and men’s letters written from and to Britain, North America, Europe, India and the Caribbean, from the labouring poor to the ...

At Home in the Eighteenth Century Interrogating Domestic Space

At Home in the Eighteenth Century: Interrogating Domestic Space

1st Edition

Edited By Stephen G. Hague, Karen Lipsedge
May 31, 2023

The eighteenth-century home, in terms of its structure, design, function, and furnishing, was a site of transformation – of spaces, identities, and practices. Home has myriad meanings, and although the eighteenth century in the common imagination is often associated with taking tea on polished...

Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House

Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House

1st Edition

By Jon Stobart
May 31, 2023

Country houses were grand statements of power and status, but they were also places where people lived. This book traces the changes in layout, the new technologies, and the innovations in furniture that made them more convenient and comfortable. It argues that these material changes were just...

Daily Lives and Daily Routines in the Long Eighteenth Century

Daily Lives and Daily Routines in the Long Eighteenth Century

1st Edition

Edited By Gudrun Andersson, Jon Stobart
May 31, 2023

This book explores the ways in which the lives and routines of a wide range of people across different parts of Europe and the wider world were structured and played out through everyday practices. It focuses on the detail of individual lives and how these were shaped by spaces and places, by ...

Enlightened Nightscapes Critical Essays on the Long Eighteenth-Century Night

Enlightened Nightscapes: Critical Essays on the Long Eighteenth-Century Night

1st Edition

Edited By Pamela F. Phillips
April 03, 2023

This volume brings together eleven case studies that address how the night became visible in the long and global eighteenth century through different mediums and in different geographical contexts. Situated on the eve of the introduction of artificial lighting, the long eighteenth century has much...

Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century

Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century

1st Edition

Edited By Seohyon Jung, Leah M. Thomas
January 09, 2023

Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century examines and challenges the boundaries of the Atlantic in the eighteenth century, with a particular focus on commerce. Commerce as a keyword encompasses a wide range of documented and undocumented encounters that invoke topics such as ...

Political Economy and Imperial Governance in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Political Economy and Imperial Governance in Eighteenth-Century Britain

1st Edition

By Heather Welland
January 09, 2023

This book examines the relationship between imperial governance and political economy in eighteenth-century Britain, particularly in Canada and Ireland. It is concerned with the way economic ideology and party politics were mutually constitutive; and with the way extra-parliamentary interests both ...

Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century

Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century

1st Edition

Edited By Yvonne Fuentes, Mark R. Malin
January 09, 2023

This edited collection of essays focuses on the topic of protest during the Enlightenment of the long eighteenth century (roughly 1670-1833). Resistance in the eighteenth century was extensive, and the act of protest to foment meaningful societal change took on many forms from the circulation of ...

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