Explores the Romantic conviction that there were 'too many' novels and shows how this belief transformed the publication of fiction.

Examines the massive impact of colonial exploration on British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s.

A history of ellipsis marks and their functions in major works of English literature over the past 500 years.

This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century

Provides twenty-first century readers with a new, comprehensive and suggestive account of the sentimental novel in the eighteenth century.