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Uses the reproductive histories of six celebrity women to demonstrate that pregnancy affected celebrity identity, impacted audience reception of performance, changed company repertory and altered company hierarchy, influenced the development of new plays, and had economic consequences for both women and the companies for which they worked.

The original edition of Salonnires, Furies, and Fairies was a work of early modern literary history, exploring women's use of the fairy tale to carve out roles as contributors to the literature of their time. This new edition, with a new introduction by Allison Stedman, emphasizes the scholarly legacy of Anne Duggan's original work.

Presents the correspondence, petitions, and memorials to state and federal legislative bodies, semi-autobiographical essays, and other materials of the key figure in the US abolitionist movement between the end of the American Revolution and the Jefferson presidency.

Analyses the ""war of words"" unleashed in the pamphlets denouncing Louis XIV's absolute monarchy between 1667 and 1715. The book investigates how pamphlet writers challenged the monarchy's monopoly over the performance of sovereignty by contesting the very mechanisms through which the crown legitimized its authority.

John Dickinson's entry into public life in Delaware and Pennsylvania is a highlight of the ninety-eight documents written over four years printed in volume two of The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson.

While the later work of the great Modernist poet Marianne Moore was hugely popular during her final two decades, since her death critics have condemned it as trivial. This book challenges that assessment, demonstrating that Moore used her late-life celebrity to activate egalitarian principles that had long animated her poetry.

Brings together ten essays on John Donne and George Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume represents the first collection of its kind to draw close connections between these two distinguished early modern thinkers and poets who are justly coupled because of their personal and artistic association.

The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed, or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections.

The first book to study and compare the concept of celebrity in France and Britain from 1750 to 1850, offering a transnational perspective. It places in dialogue the growing field of celebrity studies in the two countries, especially by engaging with Antoine Lilti's seminal work, The Invention of Celebrity.

The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed, or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections.

Offers the first book-length study of the woman suffrage struggle in Delaware, placing it within the rich historical scholarship on the national story. The book traces how white and African American women organised and advocated for 'votes for women', first by revising the state constitution and then through a federal amendment.

Fascinated by the intricate politics of the encounter between two human beings, artists such as Jacques Callot and Georges de la Tour represented the human figure as a performer acting out a social role. This book draws on literature, social history, and affect theory in order to understand the way that figuration performed social positions.