Adriana Craciun

Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of fatal women played an important role in the development of Romantic women's poetic identities.

Fatal Women of Romanticism

This fascinating study examines how Victorian fixation on disastrous Northwest Passage expeditions has conditioned our understanding of the Arctic and Polar exploration.

Writing Arctic Disaster

Kari E. Lokke

Examines the full spectrum of women's participation in the social, economic, religious, and poetic debates surrounding the French Revolution.

British Women Writers and the French Revolution

Rebellious Hearts

In this book the eighteenth century Enlightenment receives an important reassessment, using an astonishing range of materials and objects drawn from Europe and beyond, including artefacts from India and China, West Africa and Polynesia. A series of authoritative essays written by experts in the field explores the full range of material culture in the long eighteenth century, raising crucial questions about notions of property and invention, homely and commercial lives. The book also includes a series of well-illustrated exhibits, a startling and provocative assemblage of objects from the Enlightenment world, each accompanied by expert commentaries. The collection of essays and exhibits is the result of collaborative debate by scholars from Europe and north America, who have together worked on the cross-disciplinary importance of material history in making sense of how past society was fundamentally transformed through the world of goods.

The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences

Mary Terrall

Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Voyagers from Greenland to the Ottoman empire crossed paths with French, British, Polynesian, and Spanish travelers across the world, trading objects and knowledge for diverse ends.

Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century

Curious Encounters

Kari Lokke

Richard Cronin

Claudia L Johnson

Philip Cox

W M Verhoeven

A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution, Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.

Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part II

Claudia L. Johnson

W. M. Verhoeven

Nicholas Sogard

Nicholas S�gard , the author of Architect of My Own Rise reveals some secrets about himself and his book: I'll take you through a long and contradictory series of thoughts. Some might make sense, others not, some might please you, some might irritate the shit out of you, but I for one, would never read a book on how a 25-year old guy sees the world, what are his internal endeavors, and, most importantly, how he deals with them. Now, a little background about myself, and, then, we'll get down to business. So, I'm 26, and I'm fucked up. I come from a small city in Romania (yes, Dracula's country, and yes, I'm from Transylvania), and I moved to a bigger city − Cluj-Napoca (you might know it as little Silicon Valley, the area where Electric Castle − it actually takes place near Cluj-Napoca − or Untold festivals take place). Ever since I was just a toddler, I had a "gift" of tearing things apart, breaking stuff, and never really putting them back together. But the one thing I was good at, and probably I'm still good at it, is that I love seeing people smile, I love bringing them a smile on their faces. It brings me pleasure to make as many people as I can, for a moment, forget about their problems, and have a good time in my company. Another thing I was fascinated about, and still am, are probabilities. Small confession, I'm not really good at math, or retaining formulas and stuff, but my brain goes wild with probabilities. Whenever I go on dates, for example, and we run out of stuff to talk about... (yes, shit happens), I go on, and consider probabilities... about what's the likely job of random people, based on how they're dressed, what they most probably talk about, and how likely is a boy or a girl in love with the significant other, based on their nonverbal signs. That's why I'm a statistics graduate, with a bachelor and master's degree. I'll go more in deep with this subject in later chapters, so stay tuned. You probably already heard about mathematicians, that some of them actually see equations everywhere, that for them the world is an open set of numbers that add up to a formula. Well, I'm not far away from that thought, I mean I don't literally see lambdas and stuff like that, however what I do see, are patterns. While others chase for answers, my goal is to identify meaningful patterns, that can be applied, in order to reach the pick of the mountain. Yes, it's true that, sometimes, I find myself on a wild goose chase, while trying to fit a pattern to its fullest; yet, I did find some sequences that are common. In the future, I can apply these keys to my day-to-day activities. The side effect is, that I also find situations, that fall into nothing I've ever seen before, so that my level of enthusiasm may rise exponentially. One of my biggest flaws, is that I often tend to think too much, in the sense that mostly I analyze 100 times an action, before finally draw a conclusion. While this is helpful, in many cases, from time to time, I just hope I would just float in, let the waves take me to whatever result, because in the end, no matter how many scenarios I build within, life is the most unpredictable event out there. I did some experiments with just going with the flow, however, the impossibility to obtain some results, comes in just like a bug that itches the back end of my brain. All these being said, that was a short introduction about me, and I'll go on now, to start talking about different subjects. Enjoy! Nicholas S�gard

Personal Development

Architect of My Own Rise

How did the Victorian fixation on the disastrous John Franklin expedition transform our understanding of the Northwest Passage and the Arctic? Today we still tend to see the Arctic and the Northwest Passage through nineteenth-century perspectives, which focused on the discoveries of individual explorers, their illustrated books, visual culture, imperial ambitions, and high-profile disasters. However, the farther back one looks, the more striking the differences appear in how Arctic exploration was envisioned. Writing Arctic Disaster uncovers a wide range of exploration cultures: from the manuscripts of secretive corporations like the Hudson's Bay Company, to the nationalist Admiralty and its innovative illustrated books, to the searches for and exhibits of disaster relics in the Victorian era. This innovative study reveals the dangerous afterlife of this Victorian conflation of exploration and disaster, in the geopolitical significance accruing around the 2014 discovery of Franklin's ship Erebus in the Northwest Passage.

Authorship and Exploration

Fatal Women and the Body in Nineteenth Century Women's Writing

Unnatural, Unsexed, Undead

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is the founding text of modern feminism. In this sourcebook, Adriana Craciun provides the ideal starting point for students new to Wollstonecraft's revolutionary work, providing carefully focused introductory materials combined with reprinted and newly annotated source documents. Key materials in this sourcebook include: *letters by Wollstonecraft and important contemporary documents *nineteenth-century responses to the text *twentieth-century critical readings *annotated key passages, cross-referenced to critical texts *suggestions for further reading. This is the essential guide to a key literary and political text.

Adriana Craciun

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