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'How do you say “we're all kind of the same” without lapsing into the white supremacy and patriarchy – and speciesism – that contaminated how that was said in the Enlightenment? This is, to put it mildly, an important question right now. And this book does a wonderful, deep-tissue scholarship version of addressing that question. It's beautifully written, international in scope and packed with insight, and its apparatus is scintillating and kaleidoscopic like a titanic tin of Quality Street. Heydt-Stevenson shows us that good work in the humanities can change the direction of thinking, not just about novels and poems, but in 'philosophy', 'culture' and even science.' Timothy Morton, author of Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology 'Setting out an energizing and moving account of the interweaving of humans with things, this book takes a richly comparative approach to exchanges between British and French fiction. Across her radiant readings, Heydt-Stevenson unearths new insights into gender and materiality, producing an important and vital story of how characters belong with the worlds around them.' Chloe Wigston Smith, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York

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Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is the author of Austen's Unbecoming Conjunctions (2005), co-editor of Recognizing the Romantic Novel (2008), associate editor of the Cornell Wordsworth's Last Poems: 1821–1850 (1999), and author of a wide variety of articles and chapters on Romantic-era topics and writers.

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