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Award-winning books and journals on literary history, theory, and criticism, from the eighteenth century to today. We also publish works on modernism, the digital humanities, race and culture, children's literature, and the intersection of science and literature.

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Domestic Affairs
Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Kristina Straub

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Perverse Romanticism
Aesthetics and Sexuality in Britain, 1750–1832

Richard C. Sha

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Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them
Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir

John T. Irwin

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The Hidden Adult
Defining Children's Literature

Perry Nodelman

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Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850

Devoney Looser

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Biography

James Bieri

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Securing the Commonwealth
Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America

Jennifer J. Baker

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Transatlantic Literary Studies
A Reader

edited by Susan Manning and Andrew Taylor

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England's First Family of Writers
Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley

Julie A. Carlson

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Republic of Intellect
The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature

Bryan Waterman

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Driving Women
Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America

Deborah Clarke

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The Third Citizen
Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons

Oliver Arnold

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The Secret History of Domesticity
Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge

Michael McKeon

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Feeling Like a Kid
Childhood and Children's Literature

Jerry Griswold

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Haunted English
The Celtic Fringe, the British Empire, and De-Anglicization

Laura O'Connor

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A Second Mencken Chrestomathy
A New Selection from the Writings of America's Legendary Editor, Critic, and Wit

H. L. Mencken (selected, revised, and annotated by the author)
edited and with an introduction by Terry Teachout

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Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France

Lynn Festa

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On Politics
A Carnival of Buncombe

H. L. Mencken

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Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work
A Memoir by H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken
edited by Fred Hobson, Vincent Fitzpatrick, and Bradford Jacobs

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Happy Days
Mencken's Autobiography: 1880-1892

H. L. Mencken

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Volume 1
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