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...Daniel Rosenberg Loveland Jeff . An Alternative Encyclopedia? Dennis de Coetlogon’s “Universal History” (1745) ( Oxford : The Voltaire Foundation , 2010 ). Pp. xiii + 256. $105 Stalnaker Joanna . The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia...

...Paul Tankard Samuel Johnson was interested in encyclopedias, and in his own lifetime, encyclopedias were interested in him. This essay examines five eighteenth-century encyclopedias: Rees's revision of Chambers' Cyclopaedia (1778-86), Kippis's revised Biographia Britannica (1777-93), and the first...

...Jeff Loveland Thanks in part to the influence of Friedrich Brockhaus’s Konversations-Lexikon , a German encyclopedia inaugurated in 1796, biographies of the living had become unremarkable in Europe’s encyclopedias by the early nineteenth century. Today, they are pervasive. Between 1674 and 1750...

...) and The Student s Companion (1725). One might argue that the handbook label now serves mainly to dis- tinguish some academic books from others, creating a new demand. As Lynch states, OH is not a chronologically organized literary history, nor an encyclopedia, nor a collection of thematically related essays...

... (Bethlehem: Lehigh Univ., 2009). Pp. 173. $44 Kafker, Frank A., and Jeff Loveland, eds. The Early Britannica: The Growth of an Outstanding Encyclopedia (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 2009). Pp. xiii + 349. 13 ills. £65. $115 Kahn, Andrew, ed. Representing Private Lives of the Enlightenment...

... express a variety of emotional moods sorrow, shock, rage, longing, melancholy, and resolution often in quick succession, to quote The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poet- ics.8 The entry by G. Braden and E. Fowler notes the genre s widespread occasional character and quotidian voluminousness...

... 1, Winter 2007 © 2007 by Duke University Press 100 101 Eisen, Cliff , and Simon P. Keefe, eds. The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2006). Pp. 662. £175...

... (as Pottle’s edition was hailed) than as a historical document and a work of reference.2 Or it might be better to say that the book contains both a recognized liter- ary classic, as well as a virtual encyclopedia of people, places, events, and ideas in eighteenth-century London. As a historical...

... (prepared in conjunc- tion with The Grolier Club and the Folger Shakespeare Library). This richly illustrated reference encyclopedia (419 pp., 485 ills coedited and coauthored with art historian and fellow Grolier Club member Martha Hamilton-Phillips, includes...

... of health and recovery (194 95). Medical knowledge is also at the heart of Mat- thew Landers s exploration of the organizational similarities between ana- tomical and encyclopedic modes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with Leibniz s ideal of a universal scientific encyclopedia providing...

.... $48.50. ISBN 0-8387-5512-7 Kohrs, Alan C., ed. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment.4 vols. (N.Y.: Oxford Univ., 2003). Pp. 1,900. $495. ISBN 0-19-510430-7 Kuchta, David. The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity (Berkeley, Los Angeles, & London: Univ. of California, 2002). Pp. 178. $45. ISBN...

... – 55. 5. Elise Goodman, “Female Beauty and Adornment,” in The Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography, ed. Helene F. Roberts, 2 vols. (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998), 1:325. 6. Sarah R. Cohen, “Masquerade as Mode in the French Fashion Print,” in The Clothes That Wear Us: Essays...

... who seek a retrospective on his work, although the collection may be too daunting for the general public of art-lovers. It needs to be expanded, perhaps to a third volume, and periodically updated, as any kind of encyclopedia should be. It needs to be consulted alongside Cynthia Roman's earlier...

..., 2000). Pp. 262. $65. isbn 0-19-820820-0 Delaforce, Angela. Art and Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Portugal (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2022). Pp. 504. 175 ills., incl. 23 color. $175. isbn 0-521-57130-8 Delon, Michel, ed. Encyclopedia...

... (“production management”) role of John Nichols, the sources in biographical encyclopedias, in anecdote, personal contact, and so forth, and there he com- ments insightfully on Johnson’s ability to capture in the Lives the tempera- mental humanity of his poets. Lonsdale examines the relationship between...

... will appear immense. (3:99–100) This moves the treatment of character beyond the scope of the individual, one of the essential purposes of history being to explore, in the words of the Encyclopedia Britannica,the “different characters of the people who in all ages constituted [the] states...

... students of eighteenth-century literature today, nor should he be, but, to one of my points, his biography appears in both the DNB and the ODNB , as well as in the recent Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writings, 1660‒1789 . 6 The DNB article suggests his limitations...

... The term “anthropology” occurs in the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1768–71), but it gets only a one-line entry: “ANTHROPOLOGY, a discourse upon human nature”; and Johnson’s Dictionary (1755) defines it as “The doctrine of anatomy.” Clearly...

... Evett, Spenser Encyclopedia, p. 629). Viewed in a wider perspective, Upton and Warton have also been repeatedly linked as pioneers of the scholarly recovery of literary history.6 Their move to historicize Spenser was in large measure an attempt to approach The Faerie Queene on its own terms...

...  –  ­83), 8:6,157  –  ­347. There is some background provided in The Early Britannica: The Growth of an Outstanding Encyclopedia, ed. Frank A. Kafkerand and Jeff Loveland (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 2009), 11  –  ­67. 53. According to Blacklock’s entry, “Poetry,” in the Encyclopaedia...