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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...
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...
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...
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...
Staging Civilization
A Transnational History of French Theater in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Markovits, RahulEighteenth-century France is understood to have been the dominant cultural power on that era’s international scene. Considering the emblematic case of the theater, Rahul...
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...
Empiricist Devotions
Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England
Smith, Courtney WeissFeaturing a moment in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England before the disciplinary divisions that we inherit today were established, Empiricist Devotions...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Ossianic Unconformities
Bardic Poetry in the Industrial Age
Gidal, EricIn a sequence of publications in the 1760s, James Macpherson, a Scottish schoolteacher in the central Highlands, created fantastic epics of ancient heroes and presented them as...
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...
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...
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-...
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-...
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...
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 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...
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...
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-...
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...
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....
