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The weekly journal Freewoman is an essential periodical source for the study of the women's movement, gender, modernity, and modernism in the early twentieth century. This facsimile reprint is the first of its kind to include a complete collection of The Freewoman covering its two-year lifespan.

This facsimile collection features eight satirical fictions from eighteenth-century Britain, which use Japan as their main setting. The authors of this fiction include Jonathan Swift, Tobias Smollett, and George Psalmanazar, the most famous literary fraud and imposter of the eighteenth century. English translations of various European works of the period which became very popular in England have also been included within this collection, which will be a valuable primary source to all students of eighteenth-century English literature, and those interested in the image of Japan and the...

This is the final collection of the series of facsimile reprints of French Japonism novels published during in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

There is a growing interest in the French Japonism movement of the late nineteenth century, and academic research in the subject is developing in both quantity and quality. However, much of this scholarly activity is confined to the area of art history and, apart from some work on leading authors like Pierre Loti or Judith Gautier, very little scholarship has emerged from the field of French literature. Indeed, many works...

This is the first part of a new series of collections of early English writings on children. It consists of facsimile reprints of rare educational and religious books and pamphlets, including conduct books and advice for parents in the early Modern period. A total of forty-five items is planned for inclusion within the three-part series.

Founded in 1853, prior to the Dublin Celtic Society, the Ossianic Society, with such members as John O Daly, William Elliot Hudson, John Edward Pigot, Owen Connellan, John Windele, and William Smith O Brien, played a leading role in the Celtic revival in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland. The primary aim of the Society was to collect, publish, and translate the Ossian and Finnian poems in English; and during its nine-year existence it released six volumes of its Transactions, all of which are reprinted here in a facsimile format. Despite its short life, the Society s influence on later key...

Contemporaries were mesmerized by the outrageous wit of Jonathan Swift (1667 1745), a writer still widely regarded as the greatest satirist of all time. Soon after Swift s death, his friends and enemies raced to publish the definitive account of the Dean of St Patrick s. Now, Routledge brings these major works together for the first time in a new, three-volume, facsimile collection, supplemented with a full introduction, bibliographies, and other textual apparatus.

The collection s editor avers that these highly influential biographies of one of the leading literary figures of his...