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• Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Glending Olson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Weaving Narrative: Clothing in Twelfth-Century French Romance (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009), by Monica L. Wright (PDF at PSU)

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• Social Structures in Molière's Theater (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by James F. Gaines (PDF at Ohio State)

• Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830-1870 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Peter Uwe Hohendahl, trans. by Renate Franciscono
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy (originally published 1995; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Ronald Paulson (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-century Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Erik Bond (PDF at Ohio State)

• Beastly Journeys: Travel and Transformation at the Fin de Siècle (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, c2013), by Tim Youngs
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust
• The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Stefanie Markovits (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• Scenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2000), by Audrey Jaffe (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Peter Melville Logan (HTML at UC Press)
• The Chartist Imaginary: Literary Form in Working-Class Political Theory and Practice (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Margaret A. Loose (PDF at Ohio State)
• London, Radical Culture, and the Making of the Dickensian Aesthetic (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Sambudha Sen (PDF at Ohio State)
• Crime in Verse: the Poetics of Murder in the Victorian Era (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Ellen L. O'Brien (PDF at Ohio State)
• Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle (c2008), by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (HTML at Michigan)
• The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2007), by Kurt Koenigsberger (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Psychological Element in the English Sociological Novel of the Nineteenth Century (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1927), by Sijna de Vooys (page images at delpher.nl)

• The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels (originally published 1971, revised 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alistair M. Duckworth (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Perspectives: Modes of Viewing and Knowing in Nineteenth-Century England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Linda M. Shires (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Audrey Jaffe (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2007), by Kurt Koenigsberger (PDF at Ohio State)

• Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), ed. by Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Italy at the Millennium: Economy, Politics, Literature and Journalism, ed. by Paolo Janni (PDF at crvp.org)

• The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Kathleen Biddick (HTML at UC Press)

• Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Glending Olson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Kathleen Biddick (HTML at UC Press)

• The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Kathleen Biddick (HTML at UC Press)

• Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2016), ed. by Sarah Kurnick and Joanne Baron
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2016), ed. by Sarah Kurnick and Joanne Baron
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Matthew Fisher (PDF at Ohio State)

• Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Glending Olson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Sir John Hawkwood (L'Acuto): Story of a Condottiere (London: T. F. Unwin, 1889), by John Temple Leader and Giuseppe Marcotti, trans. by Leader Scott (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, c2018), by Rhonda L. McDaniel (PDF at wmich.edu)
• Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and The Lives of the Eastern Saints (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Susan Ashbrook Harvey (HTML at UC Press)

• The Fulfillment of the Scriptures: Abraham, Moses, and Piers (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1970), by Ruth M. Ames (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora (second edition; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004), by Mabel L. Lang and John McK. Camp, illust. by Alison Frantz and Craig A. Mauzy (page images at Google)

• Fashioning Change: The Trope of Clothing in High- and Late-Medieval England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Andrea Denny-Brown (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora (second edition; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004), by Mabel L. Lang and John McK. Camp, illust. by Alison Frantz and Craig A. Mauzy (page images at Google)

• The Episcopate in the Kingdom of Leon in the Twelfth Century, by Richard A. Fletcher (PDF files at Libro)

• Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany (c2008), by Erika Lauren Lindgren (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• Les Idées Féministes de Christine de Pisan (thesis in French; 1911), by Rose Rigaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Finance and Trade Under Edward III, ed. by George Unwin (HTML at British History Online)

• The Crusader Kingdom of Valencia: Reconstruction on a Thirteenth-Century Frontier ((based on) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967), by Robert I. Burns (PDF files at Libro)

• Richard II and the English Royal Treasure: Inventory (originally published Woodbridge, UK: Boydell and Brewer, 2012), by Jenny Stratford (HTML at British History Online)

• Richard II and the English Royal Treasure: Inventory (originally published Woodbridge, UK: Boydell and Brewer, 2012), by Jenny Stratford (HTML at British History Online)

• The Deficient Cause of Moral Evil According to Thomas Aquinas (1996), by Edward Cook (multiple formats at Google)

• Finance and Trade Under Edward III, ed. by George Unwin (HTML at British History Online)

• Mountain and Plain: From the Lycian Coast to the Phrygian Plateau in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Period (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by R. M. Harrison, ed. by Wendy Young (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mountain and Plain: From the Lycian Coast to the Phrygian Plateau in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Period (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by R. M. Harrison, ed. by Wendy Young (page images at HathiTrust)

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