17961 Dickens Great color illustrations by C

Great color illustrations by C

Wide-ranging collection of 17 essays from distinguished scholars

her encounters with Samuel Johnson and her time at Court

Very good condition

Beautiful dust jacket shows a costume from the Victoria and Albert Museum

17961 Dickens Great color illustrations by CThe author examines the works of Smollett, Charlotte Smith, Walter Scott, and others to show how conservatives in the 18th century used the rhetoric of victimhood to convince ordinary readers to regard a privileged person's loss of legal agency as a catastrophe greater than the calamities and legally sanctioned exclusions suffered by the poor and enslaved. Johns Hopkins Unviversity Press. 2020. Paper. NEW. $35. 00