18th century

Provides historical, cultural, and social contexts for the study of English literature, looking at the literary genres and highlighting key writers and works from the Romantic period, and includes a time line, glossaries, and resources for further study.

Profiles eighteenth- and nineteenth-century games and sports, arranged by geographic area, providing histories, instructions for play of the time period, equipment lists, alternate rules and variations, and diagrams.

Examines the people and events both in the American colonies and in Great Britain between 1760 and 1776 that led to the American Revolution.

An introduction to English romanticism which includes a variety of critical articles that analyze important literary works within the genre.

Describes the life of Mary Wollstonecraft, the first great English feminist, founder of a school in London, and author of the first great argument for the education of women.

Focuses on the social life and customs of people during the ten years of the French Revolution.

"Twayne's American thought and culture series." Current research on the origins of national thought and culture in the U.S.

Chronicles the treatments and theories of American medicine in the 18th century.