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Mind over Matter
Memory Fiction from Daniel Defoe to Jane Austen
Eron, SarahHow do we understand memory in the early novel? Departing from traditional empiricist conceptualizations of remembering, Mind over Matter uncovers a social model of...
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...
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...
Against the Map
The Politics of Geography in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Sills, AdamOver the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the increasing accuracy and legibility of cartographic projections, the proliferation of empirically based...
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...
Botanical Entanglements
Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England
Sagal, Anna K.To this day, women face barriers in entering scientific professions, and in earlier eras the challenges were greater still. But in Botanical Entanglements, Anna Sagal...
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...
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-...
The Usufructuary Ethos
Power, Politics, and Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century
Drew, ErinWho has the right to decide how nature is used, and in what ways? Recovering an overlooked thread of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century environmental thought, Erin Drew shows...
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...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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...
A World of Disorderly Notions
Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism
Hanlon, Aaron R. Shortlisted for the Kenshur Prize for Best Book in Eighteenth-Century Studies from the Indiana University Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies From Jonathan...
Raving at Usurers
Anti-Finance and the Ethics of Uncertainty in England, 1690-1750
Codr, DwightIn Raving at Usurers, Dwight Codr explores the complex intersection of religion, economics, ethics, and literature in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England....
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...
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...
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...
Beyond 1776
Globalizing the Cultures of the American Revolution
O'Malley, Maria, Van Renen, DenysIn Beyond 1776, ten humanities scholars consider the American Revolution within a global framework. The foundation of the United States was deeply enmeshed with shifting...
Sapphic Crossings
Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Klein, Ula LukszoAcross the eighteenth century in Britain, readers, writers, and theater-goers were fascinated by women who dressed in men’s clothing—from actresses on stage who showed their...
Memoirs on the Life and Travels of Thomas Hammond, 1748-1775
Hammond, Thomas, Boulukos, George E.A lavishly illustrated manuscript from the eighteenth century now being published for the first time, Thomas Hammond's memoirs are a major discovery. Hammond was a self-...
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...
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...
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...
