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Cedric D. Reverand, II

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Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 1 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2008-016 [PDF]  

Review Essays

Cynthia Wall

Not Just Another Pretty Commodity
Lynn Festa. Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2006). Pp. 300. $55. ISBN 0-8018-8430-6
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 3-8 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2008-017 [PDF]  

Kevin L. Cope

Pious Times and Priestcraft Begin Again: The Upright Sexuality of the Enlightenment
Sophie Carter. Purchasing Power: Representing Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century English Popular Print Culture. British Art and Visual Culture Since 1750 (Burlington: Ashgate, 2004). Pp. 224. 37 ills. $89.95, £49.95. ISBN 0-7546-0629-5
Peter Cryle and Lisa O'Connell, eds. Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty, and License in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Palgrave, 2004). Pp. 256. 7 ills. $65.00 ISBN 1-4039-1763-9
Frances Ferguson. Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2004). Pp. 181. $18.00, £13.00 paper. ISBN 0-226-24321-4
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 9-18 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2008-018 [PDF]  

Claudia Thomas Kairoff

A Canon of Our Own
Susan Staves. A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ, 2006). Pp. 536. $150. ISBN 0-521-85865-8
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 19-27 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2008-019 [PDF]  

Jeffrey Barnouw

Misreading Run Riot
Nancy Yousef. Isolated Cases: The Anxieties of Autonomy in Enlightenment Philosophy and Romantic Literature (Ithaca: Cornell, 2004). Pp. 253. $40 ISBN 0-8014-4244-3
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 28-33 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2008-020 [PDF]  

Beatrice Fink

The Seamier Side of Eighteenth-Century France
Laurence L. Bongie. From Rogue to Everyman: A Foundling's Journey to the Bastille (Montreal: McGill-Queen's Univ., 2004). Pp. 444. 32 ills. $80. ISBN 0-7735-2793-1
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 34-36 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2008-021 [PDF]  

Brean Hammond

Ye Jacobites by Name?
Pat Rogers. The Symbolic Design of "Windsor-Forest": Iconography, Pageant, and Prophecy in Pope's Early Work (Newark: Univ. of Delaware, 2004). Pp. 270. 5 ills. $52.50. ISBN 0-87413-837-x
Pat Rogers. Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts: History, Politics, and Mythology in the Age of Queen Anne (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2005). Pp. 341. 4 ills. $125. ISBN 0-19-927439-8
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 37-43 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2008-022 [PDF]  

Judith Pascoe

Emotional Display and National Identity
Paul Goring. The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2005). Pp. $75. ISBN 0-521-84509-2
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 44-47 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2008-023 [PDF]  

Jeffrey Smitten

Scotland and Naples: Two Contexts, One Enlightenment
John Robertson. The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples, 1680-1760 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2005). Pp. 463. $90. £55. ISBN 0-521-84787-7
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 48-53 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2008-024 [PDF]  

Juliet Shields

Highlandisms: The Expanding Scope of Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies
Kenneth McNeil. Scotland, Britain, Empire: Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 (Columbus: Ohio State Univ., 2007). Pp. 228. $41.95. ISBN 0-8142-1047-3
Matthew Wickman. The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2007). Pp. 252. $59.95. ISBN 0-8122-3791-7
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 54-60 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2008-025 [PDF]  

Roger L. Emerson

Richard Sher's Bookish Scottish Enlightenment
Richard B. Sher. The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2006). Pp. 815. 61 ills. $40.00. ISBN 0-226-75252-6
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 61-66 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2008-026 [PDF]  

Nicholas Allen

Ireland and Books
Raymond Gillespie and Andrew Hadfield, eds. The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume III: The Irish Book in English, 1550-1800 (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2006). Pp. 477. 12 ills. $160. ISBN 0-19-924705-6
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 67-70 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2008-027 [PDF]  

Ted Underwood

The Denaturalization of Economic Thought
Margaret Schabas. The Natural Origins of Economics (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2005). Pp. 231. $40. ISBN 0-226-73569-9
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 71-73 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2008-028 [PDF]  

Amy Wolf

The Female Spectator and the New Story of Eliza Haywood
Donald J. Newman and Lynn Marie Wright, eds. Fair Philosopher: Eliza Haywood and "The Female Spectator" (Lewisburg: Bucknell, 2006). Pp. 252. $48.50. ISBN 0-8387-5636-0
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 74-82 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2008-029 [PDF]  

William Walker

J. G. A. Pocock and the History of British Political Thought: Assessing the State of the Art
David Armitage, ed. British Political Thought in History, Literature, and Theory, 1500-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2006). Pp. 326. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-87041-0
D. N. DeLuna, ed. The Political Imagination in History: Essays concerning J. G. A. Pocock (Baltimore: Archangul Foundation, 2006). Pp. 274. $24.95. ISBN 1-934084-02-6
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 83-96 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2008-030 [PDF]  

James Grantham Turner

Understanding Whores
Laura J. Rosenthal. Infamous Commerce: Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (Ithaca: Cornell Univ., 2006). Pp. 270. $49.50. £28.50. ISBN 978-0-8014-4404-3
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 97-105 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2007-031 [PDF]  

David Hill Radcliffe

Less Is More: The Modernity of the Early Modern Essay
Scott Black. Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Pp. 193. $65 ISBN 1-4039-9905-8
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 106-110 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2007-032 [PDF]  

Amelia Rauser

The Consuming Subject and the Visual Culture of War
John Bonehill and Geoff Guilley, eds. Conflicting Visions: War and Visual Culture in Britain and France c. 1700-1830 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005). Pp 231. 49 ills. ISBN 0-7546-0575-2
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 111-115 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2007-033 [PDF]  

Susan B. Iwanisziw

Incle and Yarico and The Incas: Two Plays by John Thelwall
Frank Felsenstein and Michael Scrivener, eds. "Incle and Yarico" and "The Incas": Two Plays by John Thelwal (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., 2006). Pp. 167. $39.50. ISBN 0-8386-4101-6
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 116-119 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2007-034 [PDF]  

Suvir Kaul

Company Affairs
Nicholas B. Dirks. The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain (Cambridge: Harvard Univ., 2006). Pp. 389. $27.95. ISBN 0-674-02166-5
Betty Joseph. Reading the East India Company, 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2004). Pp. 220. $18 paper. ISBN 0-226-41203-2
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 120-124 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2007-035 [PDF]  

Kathrin Levitan

Local History from Below
Carolyn Steedman. Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2007). Pp. 263. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87446-5. $32.99 paper. ISBN 978-0-521-69773-6
K. D. M. Snell. Parish and Belonging: Community, Identity, and Welfare in England and Wales, 1700-1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2006). Pp. 541. $110. ISBN 0-521-86292-2
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 125-131 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2007-036 [PDF]  

Erin Mackie

The Secret History of Almost Everything
Michael McKeon. The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2006). Pp. 904. $30. ISBN 0-8018-7873-x
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 132-137 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2007-037 [PDF]  

Dianne Dugaw

"The Call of the Popular" Revisited; Or, English Literary History's Resistance to Balladry Corrected
Steve Newman. Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2007). Pp. 294. 3 ills. $65. ISBN 978-0-8122-4009-2
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 138-143 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2007-038 [PDF]  

Rictor Norton

Colonial Sexual Cultures
Clare A. Lyons. Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina, for The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2006). Pp. 420. 21 ills. $22.50 paper. ISBN 0-8078-5675-4
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 144-147 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2007-039 [PDF]  

Giulia Pacini

Matters of Style in the French Eighteenth Century
Natania Meeker. Voluptuous Philosophy: Literary Materialism in the French Enlightenment (New York: Fordham Univ., 2006). Pp. 310. $60. ISBN 0-8232-2696-4
Elena Russo. Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2007). Pp. 346. $55. ISBN 0-8018-8476-4
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 148-152 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2007-040 [PDF]  

Adelheid M. Gealt

Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712): The Dutch Canaletto
Peter C. Sutton. Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712) (New Haven: Yale Univ., 2006). Pp. 250. 205 color ills. $65. £40. ISBN 0-300-11970-4
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 153-155 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2007-041 [PDF]  

Christopher Fanning

Illustrating Sterne
W. B. Gerard. Laurence Sterne and the Visual Imagination (Aldershot: Ashhgate, 2006). Pp. 251. 47 ills. $99.95. ISBN 978-0-7456-5673-9
Eighteenth-Century Life 33(1): 156-160 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00982601-2007-042 [PDF]  

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