In eighteenth-century Britain, criminals were routinely whipped, branded, hanged, or transported to America. Only in the last quarter of the century—with the
British Romanticism and Prison Reform is the first full-length study to explore and define the close relationship between British Romantic literary texts, on th
This book argues that the British government's repression of the 1790s rivals the French Revolution as the most important historical event for our understanding
The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers overviews critical reception for Romantic women writers from their earliest periodical reviews through the mos