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As part of the series titled Children’s Literature and Culture, edited by Jack Zipes, Andrew O’Malley’s The Making of the Modern Child foregrounds the development and obscure history of didactic children’s literature in the late eighteenth century.

This book belongs to the growing number of revisionist studies challenging traditional perceptions of party politics during the eighteenth century.

A series of impressive works over more than a decade has established Terry Pinkard as one of the leading exponents of a "new" non-metaphysical Hegel.

In 1977 the Bibliographical Society in London produced a compact, integrated edition of the several volumes of H. R. Plomer et al.'s Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland during the period 1641-1775, originally published between 1909 and 1932.

One of Dostoyevsky's characters used to pray for the Comtesse du Barry, executed in Paris during the Reign of Terror, because "no one ever crossed himself for her sake". In this respect, Catherine the Great is highly similar; nobody has ever prayed for the "Semiramis du Nord," as Voltaire called her.

Jacqueline Pearson's book is a valuable work. It is brimming with quotation after quotation about the experience of reading in the eighteenth century.  It concentrates on women reading, though not exclusively so, for she presents a broad picture of people reading—children, men, women, families, the rich, and the poor.

Julie Peakman’s Mighty Lewd Books is the first attempt to give a comprehensive overview over erotic material in eighteenth-century England since Peter Wagner’s magisterial Eros Revived in 1988, and as such it is welcome.

Through an anecdote that forms the first and last words in "There Are No Slaves in France," Sue Peabody relates that, even in contemporary France, the mere suggestion that slavery once existed in the hexagon, evokes indignant outrage.

The Galleria Borghese, located in the casino of the Villa Borghese on the Pincian Hill in Rome, is one of the world's foremost museums today. Cardinal Scipione Borghese, nephew of Pope Paul V (r.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan would have found irony in his burial in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey. When Sheridan died in 1816, he had not written a play in seventeen years, his reputation as a playwright resting mainly on four comedies written in the 1770s.

We are becoming increasingly aware that the transplantation of peoples from the Old World to the New was a complex business.

Passion and Virtue: Essays on the Novels of Samuel Richardson is a collection of fourteen essays that first appeared in Eighteenth Century Fiction from 1989-1999.