...Brian Michael Norton Chandler James . An Archaeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema . ( Chicago : Univ. of Chicago , 2013 ). Pp. xxi + 430 . $45 Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Review Essay Sentimental...

...Beatrice Fink The College of William & Mary 2004 R e v i e w E s s a y Spaced Out: Early Modern French Travel Literature Beatrice Fink University of Maryland Sophie...

...Liam McIlvanney Duke University Press 2005 Hugh Blair, Robert Burns, and the Invention of Scottish Literature Liam McIlvanney University of Aberdeen On 4 May 1787, the day before...

...Maeve McCusker Christopher L. Miller. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade (Durham: Duke Univ., 2008). Pp. xvi + 571. 17 ills. $27.95 paper Duke University Press 2010 Review Essay Troubling Amnesia...

...Susan B. Iwanisziw Duke University Press 2007 Intermarriage in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Literature: Currents in Assimilation and Exclusion Susan B. Iwanisziw Philadelphia...

...: Univ. of Delaware, 2005). Pp. 417. $40. ISBN 0-87413-874-4 Duke University Press 2007 Review Essay Reconfi guring the Idea of Eighteenth-Century Literature in a New Epoch: Moving from the Augustan to the Menippean...

...Olivia Murphy Duke University Press 2008 R From Pammydiddle to Persuasion: Jane Austen Rewriting Eighteenth-Century Literature Olivia Murphy University of Oxford...

...John Richardson The martial literature of the eighteenth century shows an increasing preoccupation with atrocity. By the middle decades of the century, writers imagining war routinely include narratives in which cruel enemy soldiers brutally mistreat and kill innocent civilians. The development...

...Jacob Sider Jost Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Phillips Natalie M. . Distraction: Problems of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Literature . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. , 2016 ). Pp. x + 288 . $50 ...

... (2013): 191–214. 81. John Mullan, “Gendered Knowledge, Gendered Minds: Women and Newtonianism, 1690–1760,” in A Question of Identity: Women, Science, and Literature , ed. Marina Benjamin (New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ., 1993), 41–56, especially 45–49. 80. See Shelley Costa, “The Ladies...

... especially wide-reaching implications for scholars of Restoration and eighteenth-century literature because it was during this period that writers began to codify connections between universal laws of nature, beauty, and human cognition. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Dennis motion...

... and amateur musicians who played them, and the performance spaces in which they were encountered. This in turn invites a sustained reconsideration of the many references to lutes that appear in works of English literature from 1680 to 1830—and that is precisely the task I undertake in this article...

...Abigail Williams This article explores the role of miscellany collections as aids to recitation and education. It offers an insight into the perceived social and cultural roles of literature in the later eighteenth century, and suggests some of the ways we might use miscellanies to understand...

... to escapism. And in the medical literature of convict transportation, this characterization sometimes intersects with another, specifically pathological, impression: the Irish, on account of their “habits” and “character,” appeared uniquely predisposed to scurvy. This essay explains how this intersection...

... of the discoveries and theories that Darwin drew on in developing his work on evolution came about in the late eighteenth century. We are accustomed to reading Victorian literature in a Darwinian context, but research into the impact of geological and paleontological discoveries on the literature of the romantic...

...Margaret J. M. Ezell This essay examines the ways in which the single-authored, period literary history has been challenged since the original Oxford History of English Literature series appeared in the mid twentieth century. The volumes in the new Oxford English Literary History appearing...

... as a practice of Christian virtue without teleological ends or rewards. The rewards of virtue would appear to become virtual and immanent, available in the act of reading itself. And this is to merge religion with literature so that together they enter the logic of post-secularity. Copyright 2017 by Duke...

... the Christian spectrum, who are not “fools”—who preach from the heart and preach reconciliation rather than exclusion. It would be useful to students of Sterne to familiarize themselves with just a tenth of this vast body of sermon literature before suggesting that Sterne had no commitment to the religious...

... of Scotland at a time when the nation's very existence was under threat. Such a rereading of Watson's collection also contributes toward a reevaluation of the impression that Scottish literature after the Act of Union is pathologically split, a reflection of what G. Gregory Smith referred...