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The body of scholarship on the political opinions and party sympathies of British women writers during the early modern period and Enlightenment is now considerable, as is the scholarship devoted to women writers’ intellectual relationships with colleagues and patrons.

In the introduction to Yale's latest edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, there is no hint of how scholars or students of Edwards-be they literary, historical, theological, philosophical, or otherwise-might approach a critical examination of the enigmatic eighteenth-century preacher. The editors like it that way.

Today, infanticide—or, more often in the period under discussion, “child-murder”—has a substantial amount of writing attached to it.

A common story told about modern philosophy is that it introduced a representative theory of perception, a theory that places representative mental items between perceivers and ordinary physical objects.

Scions of the house of Murray have been born and bred to the publishing trade for more than two centuries. Not so the first John Murray, who served with the Royal Marines in the Seven Years War, retired on half pay and cast about for a livelihood.

Those familiar with previous volumes will not be surprised by The Age of Johnson 11, edited by Paul Korshin and Jack Lynch. It offers thirteen articles, nine of which are about Johnson, and a brief memoir of Donald Greene; the volume concludes with an "index nominum" for this volume and for vols. 1-10.

Translating Italy for the Eighteenth Century seeks to trace the thread of British literary representations of Italy backwards from the Female Gothic of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to mid-century translations by female authors, to early travel writing (the genre of literature most accessible to, and therefore favored by, women authors…

Despite its title, Aphra Behn’s English Feminism: Wit and Satire is largely concerned with Behn's interest in incorporating Spanish texts in her plays and her narrative prose.

James Amelang's study of autobiographical writing by artisans in early modern Europe breaks new ground, both in social and cultural history and in life-writing studies.

Terræ Filius, literally the son of the earth, was the licensed fool who provided a running commentary at the Oxford degree ceremony. He lampooned the follies and foibles of dons and undergraduates, including their relations with the female toasts of the town.

Initiated in 1980 with a volume devoted to the Canterbury Tales, the Modern Language Association's "Approaches to Teaching" series now offers over six dozen volumes.

There are several reasons why post-colonial theory provides a useful lens onto eighteenth-century colonial literature. As Srinivas Aravamudan reminds us in this book, there is no easy access to voices of resistance; the colonized cannot write back to the colonizers as though self-representation were an entirely transparent and unmediated process.