The Poverty of Disaster: Debt and Insecurity in Eighteenth-Century Britain. By Tawny Paul. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Edited by Michael Braddick et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv+286. $99.99 (cloth); $80.00 (Adobe eBook Reader).
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Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage
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Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England
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New Stories for Old: Biblical Patterns in the Novel
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Primogeniture and Entail in England: A Survey of their History and Representation in Literature
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Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-century Britain
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The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-century Britain
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The Clothes that Wear Us
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776–1832
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Domestic Space: Reading the Nineteenth-century Interior
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Victorians in Theory: From Derrida to Browning
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The Age of Virtue: British Culture from the Restoration to Romanticism
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Woeful Afflictions: Disability and Sentimentality in Victorian America
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Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography
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Diana, Self-Interest, and British National Identity
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The Pub in Literature
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Lamps at High Noon
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A World to Win
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