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Of the three questions that are central to Jared Gardner's Master Plots, Sydney Smith posed the first one, rather famously, in 1820: "In the four corners of the globe, who reads an American book?" While Gardner mentions neither the English critic nor his taunt in the Edinburgh Review, this study does focus on a pair of assumptions that were familiar to…

Late in Cato's Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion, after having dismissed the names of the discussants in Philip Freneau's The Rising Glory of America, Julie Ellison suggests that the "net effect of such naming strategies is to dignify opinion by disembodying it" (143).

In 1983 Chicago published the first edition of William Everdell’s The End of Kings. The second edition contains a new preface and a bibliographical essay providing an overview of the voluminous writings on republicanism that have appeared since 1983.

The latest offering from Susan Staves, Professor Emeritus of English at Brandeis University, is profoundly important, not surprising given the caliber of her previous contribution to the field of early women—literary and otherwise.

Constructing a fresh, coherent, and cogent approach to a work so massive as Saint-Simon's Mémoires, one situated problematically at the "crossroads of prose genres" of the time (Fumaroli), is no simple task.

Anne Stott’s biography of Hannah More provides a very detailed and rather lively account of a prolific eighteenth-century author.

It would be difficult to imagine a period in history more dramatic in scope and intensity than the years covered by this book. Britain was still finding it difficult to come to grips with the loss of her American colonies and the humiliation of defeat and separation.

Sophia Coppola’s film Marie Antoinette (Sony) brought eighteenth-century France into the limelight in the same year that this scholarly book was published.  One might venture to say that their target audiences overlap, and that people who have bought the DVD might also have bought this book.

The Global Eighteenth Century, edited by Felicity Nussbaum, resulted from a series of conferences, seminars, and an exhibition sponsored by the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Studies Center and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

If you have ever read one of Mary Hays’s novels (The Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796); Broadview Press, (2000); The Victim of Prejudice (1799), Broadview Press, (1996), and wondered where the author was coming from, this is the book for you.

In a letter to the Dublin clergyman Joseph Cooper Walker dated 9 October 1793, Charlotte Smith famously wrote, “I love Novels ‘no more than a Grocer does figs.’”[1] The words may be Henry Fielding’s—the quotation is from Joseph Andrews (1742)—but the sentiment has come to seem uniquely Charlotte Smith’s own.

After enjoying cult status in the nineteenth century, Thomas Chatterton dwindled in significance in the twentieth, becoming little more than footnote in literary history. As Nick Groom notes in his Introduction, only a handful of serious scholarly and critical works on Chatterton were available in the early 1990's.