Isabel Karremann is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany. Anja Müller is Chair of English Literature and Culture at Universität Siegen, Germany.

• Contents: Preface; Introduction: mediating identities in 18th-century England, Isabel Karremann; Identifying an age-specific English literature for children, Anja Müller; Found and lost in mediation: manly identity in Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year, Isabel Karremann; Gender identity in sentimental and pornographic fiction: Pamela and Fanny Hill, Franz Meier; Paratexts and the construction of author identities: the preface as threshold and thresholds in the preface, Katharina Rennhak; Owning identity: the 18th-century actress and theatrical property, Felicity Nussbaum; Constructing identity in 18th-century comedy: schools of scandal, observation and performance, Anette Pankratz; Material sites of discourse and the discursive hybridity of identities, Uwe Böker; Constructions of political identity: the example of impeachments, Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos; The public sphere, mass media, fashion and the identity of the individual, Christian Huck; Topography and aesthetics: mapping the British identity in painting, Isabelle Baudino; The panoramic gaze: the control of illusion and the illusion of control, Michael Meyer; Peripatetics of citizenship in the 1790s, Christoph Houswitschka; Critical responses, Rainer Emig, Hans-Peter Wagner and Christoph Heyl; Bibliography; Index.

'The essays in this collection each make interesting and nuanced arguments, combining a good mix of wide theoretical considerations with carefully applied readings.' Notes and Queries

Isabel Karremann is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany. Anja Müller is Chair of English Literature and Culture at Universität Siegen, Germany.

• Contents: Preface; Introduction: mediating identities in 18th-century England, Isabel Karremann; Identifying an age-specific English literature for children, Anja Müller; Found and lost in mediation: manly identity in Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year, Isabel Karremann; Gender identity in sentimental and pornographic fiction: Pamela and Fanny Hill, Franz Meier; Paratexts and the construction of author identities: the preface as threshold and thresholds in the preface, Katharina Rennhak; Owning identity: the 18th-century actress and theatrical property, Felicity Nussbaum; Constructing identity in 18th-century comedy: schools of scandal, observation and performance, Anette Pankratz; Material sites of discourse and the discursive hybridity of identities, Uwe Böker; Constructions of political identity: the example of impeachments, Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos; The public sphere, mass media, fashion and the identity of the individual, Christian Huck; Topography and aesthetics: mapping the British identity in painting, Isabelle Baudino; The panoramic gaze: the control of illusion and the illusion of control, Michael Meyer; Peripatetics of citizenship in the 1790s, Christoph Houswitschka; Critical responses, Rainer Emig, Hans-Peter Wagner and Christoph Heyl; Bibliography; Index.

'The essays in this collection each make interesting and nuanced arguments, combining a good mix of wide theoretical considerations with carefully applied readings.' Notes and Queries

Isabel Karremann is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany. Anja Müller is Chair of English Literature and Culture at Universität Siegen, Germany.

• Contents: Preface; Introduction: mediating identities in 18th-century England, Isabel Karremann; Identifying an age-specific English literature for children, Anja Müller; Found and lost in mediation: manly identity in Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year, Isabel Karremann; Gender identity in sentimental and pornographic fiction: Pamela and Fanny Hill, Franz Meier; Paratexts and the construction of author identities: the preface as threshold and thresholds in the preface, Katharina Rennhak; Owning identity: the 18th-century actress and theatrical property, Felicity Nussbaum; Constructing identity in 18th-century comedy: schools of scandal, observation and performance, Anette Pankratz; Material sites of discourse and the discursive hybridity of identities, Uwe Böker; Constructions of political identity: the example of impeachments, Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos; The public sphere, mass media, fashion and the identity of the individual, Christian Huck; Topography and aesthetics: mapping the British identity in painting, Isabelle Baudino; The panoramic gaze: the control of illusion and the illusion of control, Michael Meyer; Peripatetics of citizenship in the 1790s, Christoph Houswitschka; Critical responses, Rainer Emig, Hans-Peter Wagner and Christoph Heyl; Bibliography; Index.

'The essays in this collection each make interesting and nuanced arguments, combining a good mix of wide theoretical considerations with carefully applied readings.' Notes and Queries