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The Shortest Way with Defoe
Robinson Crusoe, Deism, and the Novel
Prince, Michael B.A scholarly and imaginative reconstruction of the voyage Daniel Defoe took from the pillory to literary immortality, The Shortest Way with Defoe contends that ...
Spectacular Suffering
Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic
Mallipeddi, Ramesh Spectacular Suffering focuses on commodification and discipline, two key dimensions of Atlantic slavery through which black bodies were turned into things in the...
Public Vows
Fictions of Marriage in the English Enlightenment
Ganz, Melissa J.In eighteenth-century England, the institution of marriage became the subject of heated debates, as clerics, jurists, legislators, philosophers, and social observers began...
Novel Ventures
Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690-1730
Orr, LeahThe eighteenth century British book trade marks the beginning of the literary marketplace as we know it. The lapsing of the Licensing Act in 1695 brought an end to pre-...
Questioning Nature
British Women's Scientific Writing and Literary Originality, 1750-1830
Bailes, MelissaIn the mid-eighteenth century, many British authors and literary critics anxiously claimed that poetry was in crisis. These writers complained that modern poets plagiarized...
Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel
Pearl, Jason H.Historians of the Enlightenment have studied the period’s substantial advances in world cartography, as well as the decline of utopia imagined in geographic terms. Literary...
Without the Novel
Romance and the History of Prose Fiction
Black, ScottNo genre manifests the pleasure of reading—and its power to consume and enchant—more than romance. In suspending the category of the novel to rethink the way prose fiction...
No Tomorrow
The Ethics of Pleasure in the French Enlightenment
Cusset, CatherineWinner of the 1996 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize, Catherine Cusset's No Tomorrow traces the moral meaning of pleasure in several libertine works of the eighteenth-century—Watteau...
Nervous Fictions
Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience
Keiser, Jess"The brain contains ten thousand cells," wrote the poet Matthew Prior in 1718, "in each some active fancy dwells." In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, just as...
The Problem of Profit
Finance and Feeling in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Genovese, MichaelAttacks against the pursuit of profit in eighteenth-century Britain have been largely read as reactions against market activity in general or as critiques of financial...
After Print
Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures
King, Rachael ScarboroughThe eighteenth century has generally been understood as the Age of Print, when the new medium revolutionized the literary world and rendered manuscript culture obsolete. ...
Anecdotes of Enlightenment
Human Nature from Locke to Wordsworth
Wood, James Robert Anecdotes of Enlightenment is the first literary history of the anecdote in English. In this wide-ranging account, James Robert Wood explores the animating effects...
Black Cosmopolitans
Race, Religion, and Republicanism in an Age of Revolution
Levecq, Christine Black Cosmopolitans examines the lives and thought of three extraordinary black men—Jacobus Capitein, Jean-Baptiste Belley, and John Marrant—who traveled extensively...
We Are Kings
Political Theology and the Making of a Modern Individual
Jackson, SpencerWhen British and American leaders today talk of the nation—whether it is Boris Johnson, Barack Obama, or Donald Trump—they do so, in part, in terms established by eighteenth-...
Sight Correction
Vision and Blindness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Mounsey, ChrisThe debut publication in a new series devoted to the body as an object of historical study, Sight Correction provides an expansive analysis of blindness in eighteenth-...
Nationalizing France's Army
Foreign, Black, and Jewish Troops in the French Military, 1715-1831
Tozzi, Christopher J.Before the French Revolution, tens of thousands of foreigners served in France’s army. They included troops from not only all parts of Europe but also places as far away as...
Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century
Hervey, Johnson, Smith, Equiano
Sider Jost, JacobCan a single word explain the world? In the British eighteenth century, interest comes close: it lies at the foundation of the period’s thinking about finance, economics...
The Eighteenth Centuries
Global Networks of Enlightenment
Gies, David T., Wall, CynthiaToday, when "globalization" is a buzzword invoked in nearly every realm, we turn back to the eighteenth century and witness the inherent globalization of its desires and, at...
Reading Popular Newtonianism
Print, the Principia, and the Dissemination of Newtonian Science
Miller, LauraSir Isaac Newton’s publications, and those he inspired, were among the most significant works published during the long eighteenth century in Britain. Concepts such as...
Wild Enlightenment
The Borders of Human Identity in the Eighteenth Century
Nash, Richard Wild Enlightenment charts the travels of the figure of the wild man, in each of his guises, through the invented domain of the bourgeois public sphere. We follow him...
Prose Immortality, 1711-1819
Sider Jost, JacobWriters have always aspired to immortality, using their works to preserve their patrons, their loved ones, and themselves beyond death. For Pindar, Horace, and Shakespeare, the...
Reading Contagion
The Hazards of Reading in the Age of Print
Mann, AnnikaEighteenth-century British culture was transfixed by the threat of contagion, believing that everyday elements of the surrounding world could transmit deadly maladies from one...
Sifilografía
A History of the Writerly Pox in the Eighteenth-Century Hispanic World
González Espitia, Juan CarlosSyphilis was a prevalent affliction in the era of the Americas’ colonization, creating widespread anxiety that is indicated in the period’s literature across numerous fields....
Be It Ever So Humble
Poverty, Fiction, and the Invention of the Middle-Class Home
MacKenzie, Scott R.Before the rise of private homes as we now understand them, the realm of personal, private, and local relations in England was the parish, which was also the sphere of poverty...
Unnatural Frenchmen
The Politics of Priestly Celibacy and Marriage, 1720-1815
Cage, E. ClaireIn Enlightenment and revolutionary France, new and pressing arguments emerged in the long debate over clerical celibacy. Appeals for the abolition of celibacy were couched...
