Selected Readings, No. 25
Kevin Berland (Sharon, Pennsylvania)
(May 18, 1994)
C18-L's dauntless and erudite Volunteer Fire Brigade this month:
Jeffrey Merrick, A.J. Wright, & Kevin Berland (editor-factotum-
dogsbody). For more about contributing to SR, see below.
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AUSTRIA
[see title by Vanysacker listed under Poland]
BIBLIOGRAPHY, BIBLIOPHILY, HISTORY OF THE BOOK, LIBRARIES, &C.
Barker, N. "Le Livre en France: The Importance Accorded to Books as
Part of Intellectual History in France." Book Collector, 42, 4
(Winter 1993): 465-506.
Beaudry, Catherine. "The Library of Isaac Norris II: The Formation of
an Educated Reader in the Philadelphia of the Early Enlightenment."
East-Central Intelligencer, N.S. 8, 2 (May 1994): 6-13.
Grundy, Isobel. "Books and the Woman: An Eighteenth-Century Owner and
Her Libraries." English Studies in Canada, 20, 1 (March 1994): 1-
22.
Pearson, D. "A Cambridge Binding of 1700: The Queens College 1699
Horace Opera." Book Collector, 42, 4 (Winter 1993): 553-69.
* Renzi, Paolo. _I libri del mestiere. La 'Bibliotheca Mureti' del
Collegio Romano._ Fiorenze: La Nuova Italia, 1994. [Critical ed.
of MS Vaticano-latino 11562, catalogue of special collection in the
'Bibliotheca Major' of the Jesuit Roman College, from the 1606
bequest of the library of Marc-Antoine Muret(1526-1585), and
continuing to the suppression of the Jesuit Order in 1782; c.1500
titles]
* Rindisbacher, Hans J. _The Smell of Books: A Cultural-Historical
Study of Olfactory Perception in Literature._ Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 1993. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-472-10383-0
[see also title by Mayer listed under England-History
CARIBBEAN
Bohls, Elizabeth A, "The Aesthetics of Colonialism: Janet Schaw in
the West Indies, 1774-1775." Eighteenth-Century Studies, 27, 3
(Spring 1994): 363-90.
* Prince, Mary. _The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave,
Related by Herself._ Moira Ferguson, ed., & Ziggi Alexander,
preface. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993. Paper,
144 pp. ISBN: 0-472-08246-9
CHINA
Massarella, D. "Chinese, Tartars, and Thea, or a Tale of Two
Companies: The English East India Company and Taiwan in the Late
17th Century." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 3, part 3
(November 1993): 393-426.
ECONOMICS
Berg, M., & P. Hudson. "Growth and change: a comment on the Crafts-
Harley view of the industrial revolution." Economic History
Review, 47, 1 (February 1994): 147-50.
Esteban, J.C. "British textile prices, 1780-1831: Are British growth
rates worth revising once again?" Economic History Review, 47, 1
(February 1994): 66-105.
Lewis, G. "Proto-industrialization in France." Economic History
Review, 47, 1 (February 1994): 150-64. [Bibliography]
* Morgan, Kenneth. _Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth
Century._ Cambridge University Press, 1994. 303 pp., tables.
* Neeson, J.M. _Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change
in England, 1700-1820._ Cambridge University Press, 1993. 396
pp., tables.
Ward, J.R. "The industrial revolution and British imperialism, 1750-
1850." Economic History Review, 47, 1 (February 1994): 44-65.
Woodward,D. "The determination of wage rates in the early modern
north of England." Economic History Review, 47, 1 (February 1994):
22-43.
[See also title by Hainsworth listed under England-History]
ENGLAND - HISTORY
* Hainsworth, D.R. _Stewards, Lords and People: The Estate Steward
and His World in Later Stuart England._ Cambridge University
Press, 1993. 293 pp.
* Landers, John. _Death and the Metropolis: Studies in the
Demographic History of London 1670-1830._ Cambridge University
Press, 1993. 431 pp.
Mayer, Robert. "Nathaniel Crouch, Bookseller and Historian: Popular
Historiography and CulturalPower in Late Seventeenth-Century
England." Eighteenth-Century Studies, 27, 3 (Spring 1994): 391-
419.
* Monod, Paul Kleber. _Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788._
Cambridge University Press, 1993. 424 pp., ill., tables, maps.
* Speck, W.A. _A Concise History of Britain, 1707-1975._ Cambridge
University Press, 1993. 218 pp.
[See also titles listed under Economics, Political Thought; and titles
by Christie and Cross listed under Russia-History]
ENGLAND - LITERATURE
* Bartolomeo, Joseph. _A New Species of Criticism: Eighteenth-Century
Discourse on the Novel._ University of Delaware Press, 1994.
216pp. ISBN 0-87413-488-9
* Braverman, Richard. _Plots and Counterplots: Sexual Politics and
the Body Politic in English Literature, 1660-1730._ Cambridge
University Press, 1993. 351 pp.
Corse, T. "The Ekphrastic Tradition: Literary and Pictorial Narrative
in the Epigrams of John Elsun, an 18th-Century Connoisseur." Word
& Image, 9, 4 (October-December 1993): 383-400.
* Davie, Donald. _The Eighteenth Century Hymn in England._ Cambridge
University Press, 1993. 178 pp. [John Byrom, Isaac Watts, Charles
Wesley, Christopher Smart, William Cowper].
* Maguire, Nancy Klein. _Regicide and Restoration: English
Tragicomedy, 1660-1671._ Cambridge University Press, 1993. 292
pp., ill., table.
* Murphy, Peter T. "Poetry as an Occupation and an Art in Britain,
1760-1830._ Cambridge University Press, 1993. 281 pp.
[Macpherson, Burns, Hogg, Scott, Wordsworth]
* Rawson, Claude. _Satire and Sentiment, 1660-1830._ Cambridge
University Press, 1993. 314 pp.
* Van Sant, Ann Jessie. _Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the
Novel: The Senses in Social Context._ Cambridge University Press,
1993. 160 pp.
* Weinbrot, Howard. _Britannia's Issue: The Rise of British
Literature from Dryden to Ossian._ Cambridge University Press,
1994. 642 pp.
Zeitz, Lisa M. "'Eighteenth-Century Travel Literature': The Cultural
Contexts of 'Discovery." [course description, "The Pedagogue's Post"].
East-Central Intelligencer, N.S. 8, 2 (May 1994): 21-25.
* Zomchick, John P. _Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century
Fiction: The Public Conscience in the Private Sphere._ Cambridge
University Press, 1993. 228pp. [Defoe, Richardson, Fielding,
&c.]
AUSTEN, JANE
* Stewart, Maaja A. _Domestic Realities and Imperial Fictions: Jane
Austen's Novels in 18th-Century Contexts._ University of Georgia
Press, 1993. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-8203-1540-0
[see also title by Favret listed under Political Thought]
BLAKE, WILLIAM
* Cox, Stephen. _Love and Logic: The Evolution of Blake's Thought._
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992. 328 pp. ISBN 0-
472-10304-0
DEFOE, DANIEL
* Defoe, Daniel. _Robinson Crusoe._ Ed. Michael Shinagel (2nd
edition). New York: W.W. Norton (Norton Critical Editions),
1994. Paperback, 384 pp., chronology, selected bibliography,
extracts from contemporary shipwreck texts, 21 critical estimates
by writers from Pope to Marx, 14 critical essays by Bender,
Damrosch, Flynn, McKeon, Richetti, &c. ISBN: 0-393-96452-3
* Faller, Lincoln B. _Crime and Defoe: A New Kind of Writing._
Cambridge University Press, 1993. 282 pp.
[see also title by Zomchick listed under England-Literature]
FIELDING, HENRY
[see also title by Zomchick listed under England-Literature]
FINCH, ANN (COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA)
* Hinnant, Charles H. _The Poetry of Ann Finch: An Essay in
Interpretation._ University of Delaware Press, 1994. 288pp. ISBN
0-87413-469-2
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
* Hinnant, Charles H. _"Steel for the Mind": Samuel Johnson and
Critical Discourse._ University of Delaware Press, 1994. 251pp.
ISBN: 0-87413-492-7
[see also title by Clingham listed under Scotland-Literature-Boswell]
POPE, ALEXANDER
* Rogers, Pat. _Essays on Pope_. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
279 pp.
RICHARDSON
[see also title by Zomchick listed under England-Literature]
ROCHESTER
* Thormahlen, Marianne. _Rochester: The Poems in Context._
Cambridge University Press, 1993. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-521-44042-4
SOUTHERNE, THOMAS
[see also title by Dougge listed under History of Theatre]
WOLLSTONECRAFT, MARY
[see also title by Favret listed under Political Thought]
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM
* Wu, Duncan. _Wordsworth's Reading, 1770-1799._ Cambridge
University Press, 1993. 238 pp.
FRANCE - HISTORY
* France, Peter. _Politeness and Its Discontents: Problems in French
Classical Culture._ Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Germani, Ian. "Representations of the Republic at War: Lille and
Toulon, 1792-93." Canadian Journal of History, 29 (1994): 51-94.
Olsen, Mark. "Enlightened Nationalism in the Early Revolution: The
Nation in the Language of the Societe de 1789." Canadian Journal
of History, 29 (1994): 23-50.
* Parker, Harold T. _An Administrative Bureau during the Old Regime:
The Bureau of Commerce and Its Relations to French Industry from
May 1781 to November 1783._ University of Delaware Press, 1994.
158pp. ISBN: 0-87413-467-6
FRANCE - LITERATURE
* Cook, Malcolm _Fictional France: Social Reality in the French
Novel, 1775-1800._ Providence & Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1993.
224 pp. ISBN 0-85496-765-6
* Denby, David J. _Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in
France, 1760-1820._ Cambridge University Press, 1994. 314 pp.
LAFAYETTE
* Lafayette, Marie Madeleine de. _The Princesse of Cleves._ New
York: W.W. Norton (Norton Critical Editions), 1994. Tr. Thomas
Sergeant Perry, revised and edited by John D. Lyons. 320 pp.,
paperback, glossary of characters, 11 critical essays by Butor,
Dejen, Fabre, Francillon, Genette, Gregorio, Harth, Kamuf, Kaps,
Rousset, Weinberg, &c. ISBN: 0-393-96333-0
ROUSSEAU
Ray, William. "Reading Women: Cultural Authority, Gender, and te
Novel. The Case of Rousseau." Eighteenth-Century Studies, 27, 3
(Spring 1994): 321-47
GERMANY - LITERATURE
Dedert, H. "A Theory of Novel: Discussion of the Genre of the Novella
during the Enlightenment" [in German]. Zeitschrift fur Deutsche
Philologie, 112, 4 (1983): 481-508.
* Lamport, F.J. _German Classical Drama: Theatre, Humanity and
Nation, 1750-1870._ Cambridge University Press, 1992. 254 pp.,
ill.
* Schmidt, Henry J. _How Dramas End: Essays on the German Sturm und
Drang, Buchner, Hauptmann, and Fleisser._ Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1992. 200 pp. ISBN 0-472-10261-3
HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
Brown, J.C. "Rescuing a Rhode Island Landmark: the 1792 Nightingale-
Brown House in Providence." Architectural Digest, 51, 2 (February
1994): 26-.
HISTORY OF ART
Hills, Helen. "The Age of the Baroque in Portugal" [exhibition
review]. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 27, 3 (Spring 1994): 487-90.
Taylor-Leduc, Susan. "'La Famille Royale: de l'Histoire a la Legende'
and 'L'Ame aux Corps: Arts et Sciences 1793-1993" [exhibition
review]. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 27, 3 (Spring 1994): 480-83.
Morgan, David. "The Rise and Fall of Abstraction in Eighteenth-
Century Art Theory." Eighteenth-Century Studies, 27, 3 (Spring
1994): 449-78. [Bellori, Breitinger, Burger, Gottsched, Heinse,
Koch, Leibniz, Locke, Mendelssohn, Merck, Reynolds, Schiller,
Wackenroder, Walch, Wieland, Winckelmann]
BLAKE, WILLIAM
* Norvig, Gerda. _Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blake's
Illustrations to The Pilgrim's Progress._ Berkeley & Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 1993. 325 pp., ill.
Treadwell, J. "Blake, John Martin, and the Illustration of Paradise
Lost." Word & Image, 9, 4 (October-December 1993): 363-82.
TIEPOLO
Wright, J. "Giambattista Tiepolo: Master of the Oil Sketch"
[exhibition review]. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 27, 3 (Spring
1994): 483-87.
WALKER, JAMES
* _Engraved in the Memory: James Walker, Engraver to the Empress
Catherine the Great, and his Russian Anecdotes._ Ed. Anthony
Cross. Providence & Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1993. 160 pp., ill.
ISBN:0-85496-848-0
HISTORY OF LAW
Vanstrien, K., & M. Ahsmann. "Scottish Law Students at the End of the
17th Century: The Correspondence of John Clerk, 1694-97." LIAS,
20, 1 (1993): 1-66.
HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Bergman, Norman A. "James Moore (1762-1860): An 18th-Century Advocate
of Mitigation of Pain during Surgery." Anesthesiology, 80, 3
(March 1994): 657-662.
HISTORY OF MUSIC
Dilworth, J. "The Paragon of Parker's Violas." Strad, 105, 1246
(February 1994): 124-26.
Fisher, I. "To Publish or Not to Publish: Distinguished Music
Publisher Breitkopf and Hartel Established 275 Years Ago." Musical
Times, 135, 1811 (January 1994): 28-32.
* Russell, Charles C. _The Don Juan Legend Before Mozart, With a
Collection of 18th-Century Librettos._ Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1993. 528 pp. ISBN: 0-472-10413-6.
* Sanchez, Marta. _XVIII Century Spanish Music: Villancicos of Juan
Frances de Iribarre._ Pittsburgh: Latin American Literary Review
Press. 144 pp., transcriptions. ISBN: 0-935480-25-0
HISTORY OF RELIGION
CHRISTIAN - PROTESTANT
* Cornwall, Robert D. _Visible and Apostolic: The Constitution of
the Church in High-Church Anglican and Non-Juror Thought_.
University of Delaware Press, 1994. 215pp. ISBN: 0-87413-466-8
* Reedy, Gerard. _Robert South (1634-1716): An Introduction to His
Life and Sermons._ Cambridge University Press, 1992. 171 pp.
ISLAM
* _The Encyclopaedia of Islam_. New Edition. Leiden: E.J. Brill,
1986-. [Vols. 1-7 (A-Naz) are now available; Vol. 8 will be
published in Sept. 1995. The full 11 volumes may be purchased by
subscription.]
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Gorham, Geoffrey. "Mind-Body Dualism and the Harvey-Descartes
Controversy." Journal of the History of Ideas, 55, 2 (April 1994):
211-34.
[See also title by Cohen listed under Political Thought]
HISTORY OF THEATRE
Drougge, H. "Love, Death, and Mrs. Barry in Thomas Southerne's
Plays." Comparative Drama. 27, 4 (Winter, 1994): 408-25.
IRELAND - HISTORY
Durey, Michael. "The Dublin Society of United Irishmen and the
Politics of the Carey-Drennan Dispute, 1792-94." Historical
Journal, 37 (1994): 89-112.
IRELAND - LITERATURE
SWIFT
* Erskine-Hill, Howard. _Swift: Gulliver's Travels._ Cambridge
University Press (Landmarks of World Literature), 1993. 119 pp.
* Higgins, Ian. _Swift's Politics: A Study in Disaffection._
Cambridge University Press, 1994. 225 pp.
MARITIME HISTORY
Bradley, P.T. "The Ships of the Armada of the Viceroyalty of Peru in
the 17th Century." Mariner's Mirror, 79, 4 (November 1993): 393-
402.
Hepper, D. "The Loss of the Sloop Peggy, 1770." Mariner's Mirror,
79, 4 (November 1993): 460-62.
Kirby, B.S. "Conjecture on the Boarding of the American Merchantman,
Catherine, May 1784." Mariner's Mirror, 79, 4 (November 1993):
462-3.
[See also title by Morgan listed under England-History; by Christie
listed under Russia-History;]
PHILOSOPHY
Marion, J.L. "The Exactitude of the So-Called Ego: A Study of the
Essentialist Philosophy of the Seventeenth Century as Distinguished
by the Characters of Proper, Exact, and Free." American Catholic
Philosophical Quarterly, 67, 4 (Autumn 1993): 561-8,
[see also titles listed under Political Thought]
BOYLE
Mulligan, Lotte. "Robert Boyle, 'Right Reason,' and the Meaning of
Metaphor." Journal of the History of Ideas, 55, 2 (April 1994): 235=
BURKE
* Furniss, Tom. _Edmund Burke's Aesthetic Ideology: Language,
Gender, and Political Economy in Revolution._ Cambridge University
Press, 1993. 320 pp.
DIDEROT
* Brewer,Daniel J. _The Discourse of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-
Century France: Diderot and the Art of Philosophizing._ Cambridge
University Press, 1993. 309 pp.
SHAFTESBURY
* Klein, Lawrence E. _Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness:
Moral Discourse and Cultural Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century
England_. Cambridge University Press, 1994. 224 pp.
POLAND
Vanysacker, D. "The Erudite Activities and Contacts of Papal
Nuncio Giuseppe Garampi in Warsaw and Vienna, 1772-85."
LIAS, 20, 1 (1993): 121-.
[see also title by Lukowski listed under Political Thought]
POLITICAL THOUGHT
* Clark, J.C.D. _The Language of Liberty 1660-1832: Political
Discourse and Social Dynamics in the Anglo-American World._
Cambridge University Press, 1993. 422 pp.
Cohen, I. Bernard. "Harrington and Harvey: A Theory of the
State Based on the New Physiology." Journal of the History
of Ideas, 55, 2 (April 1994): 187-210.
Crimmins, James E. "Bentham's Political Radicalism
Reexamined." Journal of the History of Ideas, 55, 2 (April
1994): 259-81.
* Favret, Mary A. _Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics,
and the Fiction of Letters._ Cambridge University Press
(Cambridge Studies in Romanticism), 1993. 282 pp. [1789-
1830; Wollstonecraft, Austen, Mary Shelley]
Lukowski, Jerry. "Recasting Utopia: Montesquieu, Rousseau,
and the Polish Constitution of 1791." Historical Journal,
37 (1994): 65-88.
* Sack, James J. _From Jacobite to Conservative: Reaction and
Orthodoxy in Britain,c.1760-1832._ Cambridge University
Press, 1993. 303 pp.
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES & TOOLS
Erwin, Tim. "Spaulding's Sermon Index." East-Central
Intelligencer, N.S. 8, 2 (May 1994): 25. [re: John Gordon
Spaulding's "Pulpit Publications," a database based on John
Cooke's _Preacher's Assistant_ (1783)].
RUSSIA - HISTORY
* Christie, Ian R. _The Benthams in Russia 1780-1791._
Providence & Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1993. 272pp. ISBN: 0-
85496-816-4 [Samuel Bentham, Jeremy's brother, inventor,
shipbuilder & naval advisor]
* Cross, Anthony. _Anglo-Russia: Aspects of Cultural
Relations Between Great Britain and Russia in the
Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries._ Providence &
Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1993. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-85496-848-2
[see also title listed under History of Art-Walker]
SCOTLAND - HISTORY
[See title by Vanstrien & Ahsmann listed under History of Law]
SCOTLAND - LITERATURE
BOSWELL
* Clingham, Greg. _Boswell: The Life of Johnson._ Cambridge
University Press (Landmarks of World Literature_, 1992. 149 pp.,
table.
BURNS, ROBERT
Davis, Leith Ann. "'Bounded to a District Space': Burns, Wordsworth,
and the Margins of English Literature." English Studies in Canada,
20, 1 (March 1994): 23-40.
[see also title by Murphy listed under England-Literature]
HOGG, JAMES
[see title by Murphy listed under England-Literature]
MACPHERSON, JAMES
[see title by Murphy listed under England-Literature]
THEATRE HISTORY
* Hemmings, F.W.J. _Theatre and State in France, 1760-1905_.
Cambridge University Press, 1994. 308 pp.
* Howe, Elizabeth. _The First English Actresses: Women and Drama,
1660-1700._ Cambridge University Press, 1992. 248 pp., ill.,
tables.
[see also title by Maguire listed under England-Literature]
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