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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.

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

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).

Is God the perfect clockmaker? Gottfried Leibniz is famous for his view that God has made a perfectly ordered world; indeed, an infinite collection of independent monads, perfectly mirroring each other's independent activity.

What discursive significance attaches to the circulation in queer settings of such canonical figures in eighteenth-century German classicism as Friedrich Schiller, art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, or Mignon, the perversely androgynous child of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship?

This encyclopedic study explores the degree to which England and France were culturally integrated as a result of their conflicted entanglements.

The 3,200 pages of Travels, Explorations and Empires are a welcome addition to the modern-edition travelogues that are increasingly becoming available to scholars and students of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Edited by Tim Fulford and Peter J.

An impressive product of multidisciplinary collaboration, Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire brings together recent scholarship from such diverse fields as art history, geography, literature, and the history of science in order to address the ways in which Westerners perceived the tropical world from the mid-eighteenth through the mid-twentieth-century.

This translation will undoubtedly constitute a landmark in Vico studies in view of the way in which they have developed over the last half-century. A striking feature of this development is its concentration on Vico later works, i.e.

To avoid contributing to the limited and distorted view of the colonial Latin America that scholars have created around the three imperial cultures (Inca, Maya, and Aztec) which conform best to our modern world conceptions, Gustavo Verdesio has set out to study the territory and aborigines of a neglected geographical area north of the River Plate, in what…

In the _Preface to Shakespeare_, Samuel Johnson wrote: “It is no pleasure...to observe how much paper is wasted in confutation….The tide of seeming knowledge which is poured over one generation retires and leaves another naked and barren.” Even after decades of research, however, it seems that practically every book on Johnson must begin unpleasantly,…

"London was burn'd" was the unequivocal account of the Great Fire recorded by one Londoner, Alfred Wallis, in a family ledger. Over thirteen thousand houses, almost four hundred acres of land within the City walls, eighty-seven churches, forty-four livery halls and numerous other prominent buildings, including the Guildhall, the Royal Exchange and St.