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Book Publication: British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century

Announcing the publication of British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge UP). The volume shows how legal developments of the period shaped and were shaped by imaginative writing while shedding light on legal and ethical questions that remain of concern to this day. Edited by ASECS member Melissa J. Ganz, the volume includes chapters by David Alff, Andrew Benjamin Bricker, Stephanie DeGooyer, Anne Frey, Melissa J. Ganz, Suzanna Geiser, Mark Schoenfield,  Simon Stern, Kathryn D. Temple, Sarah Winter, and Nicole Mansfield Wright.  The volume is available as an e-book (via Cambridge Core) and in hardback. More information is available here

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ASECS in the News!

Nonprofit Association of Oregon Member Spotlight: ASECS NAO is excited to spotlight nonprofit members, share their success stories and exciting news, and raise awareness of their cause and the impact these amazing nonprofits make in our communities.   This month, we are pleased to highlight the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, located in Corvallis, who has been an NAO member since 2022.   More information here: Member Spotlight ASECS

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ECSSS event: New Research on the Jacobites: Book & Website Launch

ECSS announces: New Research on the Jacobites: Book and Website Launch, organized by Professor Leith Davis and the Research Centre for Scottish Studies. Date/Time: Friday, September 26th (12:30-3 PM) Location: W.A.C. Bennett Library and online (for the first hour) Event Agenda Presentation: 12:30-1:30 PM (Hybrid via Zoom and in person Room 7200 Refreshments and Scottish Music: 1:30-2 PM (In-person) Workshops: 2-3 PM (In-person) – Media and Maker Commons You can register for all or some of these events on Eventbrite or send an email to engl_cmns@sfu.ca  and let me know if you’d like to attend the presentation in-person or online and if… Read More »ECSSS event: New Research on the Jacobites: Book & Website Launch

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New Publication: “The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland,” by Ruth Perry

ASECS member Ruth Perry has published The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland. Twelve sung ballads were recorded to go with the book and they can be heard on a companion website for the book, by obtaining the CD, or by streaming from any of the major websites. it was published by Oxford University Press this summer.  Click here to go to the publisher’s page for more information. Order online with promotion code AAFLYG6 to save 30%! Ruth Perry is a past President of ASECS. After teaching at MIT for 50 years,… Read More »New Publication: “The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland,” by Ruth Perry

Crystal B. Lake wins prestigious ACLS award

ASECS Member Crystal B. Lake has been awarded an ACLS Project Development Grant. Her project, “Reading/Making: Handcrafting Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century,” recovers the surprising range of crafts, customized commodities, and designed environments that early readers created between 1650 and 1850 that directly reference published poems, plays, novels, and works of nonfiction. These “literary objects” include needlepoint samplers stitched with lines from popular poems, board games inspired by bestsellers, waxwork renditions of fictional characters, magic lantern show based on trending plots, pinprick portraits of favorite authors, and much more. “Reading/Making” documents these objects systematically… Read More »Crystal B. Lake wins prestigious ACLS award

Early bird registration for the 56th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is now open - through Jan. 5, 2026!

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