Bucknell University Press’s eighteenth-century publications were recently recognized and recommended in the current issue of Studies in English Literature. In the review by Jenny Davidson, professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, she thanks Bucknell University Press for “continuing to do a deep service to our field by publishing monographs and reissuing them in paperback wherever possible.”
Here are the publications mentioned in Professor Davidson’s review:
Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish literature, 1603-1832 by Rivka Swenson.
“(This book) fills a significant gap in the critical literature and touches on moments both familiar and relatively obscure in the history of Anglo-Scottish literary interactions over the long eighteenth century.”
Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity by Christine Lehleiter.
“A fascinating and illuminating book.”
“I found DeGabriele’s readings of novels stimulating and often persuasive.”
“I think (this volume) represents essentially the best-case scenario for the edited collection of literary criticism that is organized not for a series or as primarily a teaching tool but as the best way of compiling a field’s state of knowledge on an emerging topic… (it) remains an indispensable resource for scholars working on a host of topics related to the it-narrative and the animated objects of eighteenth-century literature.”
Developments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal, 1600-1800 by Chris Mounsey
“An important and thought-provoking collection.”
Impassioned Jurisprudence: Law, Literature and Emotion, 1760-1848, edited by Nancy E. Johnson
“(The editor) has assembled an intriguing volume of essays whose authors consider the role of emotion in eighteenth-century English legal theory.”
“A number of brilliant essays here.”
Excitable Imaginations: Eroticism and Reading in Britain, 1660-1760 by Katheleen Lubey
“(Its) stated goal of bringing ‘the history of sexuality into contact with the history of reading’(p12) has already proved generative for other scholars.”
Other BU Press publications that are mentioned by Professor Davidson include:
Making Love: Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature by Paul Kelleher.
The Matrimonial Trap: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage by Laura E. Thomason
Reading 1759: Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Shaun Regan.
The Language of Robert Burns: Style, Ideology and Identity by Alex Broadhead.
Charlotte Lennox: Correspondence and miscellaneous Documents, edited by Nobert Schürer
by Tong Tong, 2016-2017 Cynthia Fell Intern