... engagement with a variety of eighteenth-century discourses, all invested, in varying ways, in the age's dominant historiographical trope celebrating extant commercial society as the apogee of social development. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Godwin St. Leon property historiography...

... into vehicles of social critique. In his essay, Rowland Weston explores nuances of periodization as they pertain to the historical novel at the end of the eighteenth century. Taking up William Godwin’s St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century, a novel that engages European culture’s transition...

.... ISBN 0-8032-1714-5 Christie, Christopher. The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century (Manchester & N.Y.: Manchester Univ., 2000). Pp. xvi + 333. $69.95, $29.95 paper. ISBN 0-7190-4724-2; 4725-0. Dist. in USA by St. Martin’s Press. Clark, J. C. D. English Society, 1660–1832: Religion...

... Century     2 3 After “Gabrielle de Bergerac,” James did not set any of his works in the previous century — or earlier — for a long time. But he did in 1895, in his controversial play, Guy Domville, which his biographer Leon Edel sees as a crisis in his career. Its premiere, on 5 January 1895, came...

...-014 Copyright 2007 by Duke University Press 56 57 In his recent essay The Political Economy of Reading, William St. Clair reminds us that readers left to their own devices rarely select...

...Bruce P. Lenman The College of William & Mary 2003 Review Essay Shrinking World Rather than Expanding Europe? Bruce P. Lenman University of St Andrews Anthony Pagden, ed...

... a strict interpretation of the articles of surrender signed with the Spanish and refused to hand over the Indians captured at the Castle of St. John. This decision alienated the Miskito, who “were much dispirited and angry at not being allowed to Plunder...

... the country’s agricultural riches was heralded by agronomists, botanist-­travelers, philosophers, and men of letters as the ultimate sign of civilization, as a work of pure genius.18 The agronomist St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735  –  1813), among others, explained the importance of grafting...

... into the modern era.14 All ceremo- nies revolved around the election and government of a Lord of Misrule, generally known at the Inns as the Christmas Prince.15 The frolics nor- mally began the Monday preceding St. Thomas’ Day (21 December) and continued...

... and that Napoleon was the Beast of the Apocalypse prophesied in the Revelation of St. John. Piozzi’s millenarianism has been ridiculed or downplayed by scholars, including her biographer James L. Clifford, who attributes her “silly specu- lations” to the lack of the “restraining influence” of Johnson, who...

...” condition—as “ ‘ lack ’ ” (Aristotle), “ ‘supernumerary bone’ of Adam” (Bossuet), and “ ‘imperfect man’ ” or “ ‘incidental’ being” (St. Thomas)—before asking: “How can independence be recovered in a state of dependency?” 13 Drawing on Virginia Woolf's A Room of One ' s Own (1929), de Beauvoir's...

... Brewer & John Styles (London: Rutgers Univ., 1980), pp. 21–46. 12. Steve Hindle, The State and Social Change in Early Modern England, 1550–1640 (London: St. Martin’s, 2000); King, “Decision-Makers”; Thomas W. Laqueur, “Crowds, Carnival and the State...

... and Civil Leer: The “Decline” of Eighteenth-Century Panegyric (Newark: Univ. of Delaware, 1994). Among the numerous studies treating satire as a general mode or genre, see, for example, Ian Jack, Augustan Satire: Intention and Idiom in English Poetry, 1660–1750 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1965); Leon...

..., is to Sin” (6, 9). When Crusoe goes on to aver that there is no such worldly sinning indulged when one is in a vision- ary “wrapt-up State . . . like that of St. Paul,” at which time and in any place “the Soul of Man is powerfully engag’d to the point of being “out of the Body” (12), the phenomenon...

...), for example, o‘ering a thinly disguised allegory of Napoleon.3 Napoleon himself, of course, has long been regarded as a historical ˜gure who operates within and against the Romantic imagination.4 Yet, despite obvious parallels between Napo- leon and Victor Frankenstein, scholars have typically read...