...Adam Potkay The College of William & Mary 2001 Hume’s “Supplement to Gulliver”: The Medieval Volumes of The History of England Difference in Opinions hath cost many Million of Lives...

...G. S. Rousseau The College of William & Mary 2001 Ingenious Pain: Fiction, History, Biography, and the Miraculous Eighteenth Century “And Diderot, feeling he’d found a soulmate, promptly decided...

...: The Poetry of History and Autobiography Timothy M. Costelloe College of William & Mary James A. Harris. Hume: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2015). Pp. xiii + 621. $55 • As a historian...

... knowledge and, thereby, modern pleasure. I here try to reclaim lost classical allusions, and use lexicography, textual variants, rape and marriage laws, and social and dynastic history to illumine Tom Jones, Pamela in her Exalted Condition , and Clarissa. The historical critic thus is empirical, inductive...

...David Alexander The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26108-146-alex.q4 5/24/02 3:13 PM Page 136 Prints after John Collet: Their Publishing History...

...Neil Hargraves The College of William & Mary 2003 Revelation of Character in Eighteenth-Century Historiography and William Robertson’s History of the Reign of Charles V Neil Hargraves...

... into the strikingly uniform descriptions found in biographies of Chatham and in parliamentary histories both contemporary and modern. A letter from Walker King to Richard Burke, Jr., written within hours of the event, offers a compelling new perspective on what may have been said on the floor of Lords on 7 April 1778...

... broadly, in knowledge production) that were occurring in the final decades of the seventeenth century. I view the text as a literary and scientific document that in its narrative fissures illustrates a particular moment in the history of two increasingly incompatible systems of knowing that developed...

... This Is Enlightenment: An Event in the History of Mediation? Lee Morrissey Clemson University Siskin, Clifford, and William Warner, eds. This Is Enlightenment (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2010). Pp. xii + 505. 26 ills. $27.50 paper...

...Kim Wheatley Barchas Janine . Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. , 2012 ). Pp. xiii + 317 . $45 Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Review Essay Austen’s Allusions...

... Digital Humanities and the History of Literary Studies Michael Gavin University of South Carolina Ted Underwood. Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies (Stanford: Stanford...

...Jonathan Lamb Duke University Press 2006 Review Essay Cook and the Question of Naval History Jonathan Lamb Vanderbilt University Inga Clendinnen...

...William Walker David Armitage, ed. British Political Thought in History, Literature, and Theory, 1500-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2006). Pp. 326. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-87041-0 D. N. DeLuna, ed. The Political Imagination in History: Essays concerning J. G. A. Pocock (Baltimore...

... in England and Wales, 1700-1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2006). Pp. 541. $110. ISBN 0-521-86292-2 Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay Local History from Below Kathrin Levitan College of William & Mary...

...Erin Mackie Michael McKeon. The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2006). Pp. 904. $30. ISBN 0-8018-7873-x Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay The Secret History of Almost...

...Melissa Bailes This essay explains Anna Seward's famous, vitriolic attacks on the poetic plagiarisms of Charlotte Smith by examining them within the framework of natural history. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the vocabularies and methodologies of natural history overlapped...

... History Richard Frohock Oklahoma State University First published in Dutch in 1678, Alexander Exquemelin’s slim volume Buc- caneers of America (Americaensche Zee-Rovers) presented European readers with a novel and shockingly candid portrait...

...Melinda Alliker Rabb “Swift, Secret History, and War” argues that the relationship between Swift’s writing, reading, and his abiding interest in the English Civil Wars produced a distinctive contribution to the discourses that arose after the reestablishment of monarchy, called “secret histories...