WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Thanks to Purdue University Press' first digital book, readers can learn what some of the greatest minds in 18th century literature might say today if they traded their quill ...

Not many college students who plan to be English majors can escape a careful study of Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock." "It's a mainstay of teaching 18th-century literature," said Sophie Gee, ...

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British and Irish Studies at UB brings together faculty whose interests and scholarship focus on the literary, cultural, and political histories of modern Britain ...

In recent decades, fictional and quasi-fictional late 18th century works about real or imagined visits to the Indian subcontinent, and even interesting travel narratives written by relatively little ...

Where it began: Emerging in the 18th century, Gothic literature drew on medieval architecture and Romantic sensibilities to evoke awe, mystery, and terror. Why it ...

Books had a social function in 18th century homes, according to new research from Oxford University. Abigail Williams, a Professor in the English Faculty and Fellow at St Peter's College, has written ...

In the world of Bridgerton, everyone reads the scandalous gossip columns of Lady Whistledown. That Lady Whistedown’s acid pen belongs to none other than the ever-polite Penelope Bridgerton proved a ...

Associate Professor of English Ann Kibbie specializes in 18th-century literature. Allison Cooper, assistant professor of cinema studies and romance languages, focuses on Italian cinema. And two of ...

In 1790, the planter-historian William Beckford claimed that Jamaica was “one of the richest jewels in the crown of Great Britain.” In the eighteenth century, slave-grown sugar was Britain’s most ...