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For some years, the criticism of eighteenth-century poetry has verged on becoming a footnote to studies of the novel.

Taking Rousseau’s motto, vitam impendere vero, as his point of departure, Christopher Kelly argues that "for Rousseau, ‘consecrating one’s life to the truth’ meant both publicly taking responsibility for what one publishes and, also, publishing only those things that will be of public benefit" (1-2).

In 1517, a revolution began when a German monk by the name of Martin Luther unwittingly started a revolution when he publicized his differences with the Catholic Church.

Michael Rapport begins and ends his book with references to two modern events revealing that "some of the central issues posed by the French Revolution are still relevant today: how to define the nation and its membership; the rights of citizenship and its limits; the balance between universal rights ... and national and cultural traditions" (vi).

As its title suggests, Reading Readings analyzes the act and art of reading Shakespeare's texts during the eighteenth century.

Benjamin Redekop focuses on "the interplay between an emerging yet problematic Publikum and ... [the] pioneering efforts as public writers" (25) of three key figures of the German eighteenth century: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Thomas Abbt, and Johann Gottfried Herder.

The essays contained in this volume were presented at a colloquium held in 1995 at the University of Nancy.

This book is an important contribution to eighteenth century studies, which will no doubt encourage scholars to enter more often the labyrinth of the Encyclopédie.

This second volume of Reason, Grace, and Sentiment, which completes Isabel Rivers' commanding survey of British moral and religious thought of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Volume I appeared in 1991), was well worth the wait.

Keith Sandiford’s The Cultural Politics of Sugar is a comparative study of six colonial texts from the West Indies dating from the mid-seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century.

In A Passionate Usefulness: The Life and Literary Labors of Hannah Adams, Gary Schmidt explores the life and scholarship of one of America’s first notable writers and historians, Hannah Adams (1755-1831).

In his Short History of Irish Literature (1986), Seamus Deane makes short work of the dramas of Anglo-Irish playwrights from George Farquhar to Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and from the lesser lights of John O'Keefe to Hugh Kelly.