In Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850, Mark J. Miller argues that transatlantic Protestant discourses of abjection engaged with, and furthered the development of, concepts of race and sexuality in the creation of public subjects and public spheres.
Before Disability is a literary, legal, and cultural history of disability, race, and citizenship between the Revolution and the Civil War. It shows how disability helped to shape US citizenship as it developed as well as how the formation of US citizenship, in turn, fundamentally shaped disability.
In Ancien Régime France, the discourse of society was usually referred to as bruit, or noise. Public Acoustics explores how writers manipulated this acoustic metaphor to theorize the political and social force of common talk, offering an alternative history of the public sphere that resonates with the noisy digital media environments of today.
Paper Intimacies in the Early Modern Lyric explores how everyday Renaissance practices of folding, sending, archiving, and arranging manuscript poetry informed how their authors, including John Donne and William Shakespeare, imagined possibilities for nearness and desire.
Scorn, Shame, and the Simple Reader reveals how the emotional language in texts intended for solitary women became the foundation for a medieval Christian reading public. The story of the simple reader provides a new perspective on reading, gender, and identity at the intersection of religious rule and literary fiction.
The Atlantic Republic of Letters offers an alternative intellectual history of early America. Situating Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia in the context of a broader Atlantic intellectual world, it shows how early American intellectuals helped to devise and put into practice colonialism.
Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England
Matthew Ritger
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512828993
Pub Date: April 2026
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Examining how the work of writers including More, Shakespeare, and Milton dealt with humanism’s entanglements with these new prisons, Houses of Correction constructs the first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe’s most influential carceral institutions.
