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...Debra Morris Smith Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 The Idea of Inspiration in Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory Debra Morris Smith Invocation of a muse, whether one of the nine, the holy spirit, or someone of private importance to the writer, is so common in poetry...

...David Curtis Skaggs Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society . By Smith Daniel Blake . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1980 . Pp. 305 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 494 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...William T. Laprade Copyright © 1928 by Duke University Press 1928 THE POWER OF THE ENGLISH PRESS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WILLIAM T. LAPRADE Duke University IN THE past generation or two, students have begun habit­ ually to use newspapers as sources for the history of the time in which...

...Abbott C. Martin Copyright © 1930 by Duke University Press 1930 THE LOVE OF SOLITUDE IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETRY ABBOTT C. MARTIN Sewanee, Tenn. I READERS of English poetry of the eighteenth century will perhaps remember how often in this poetry man is depicted as a solitary and to what...

...Robert H. Woody The Atlantic Civilization: Eighteenth-Century Origins . By Kraus Michael . Ithaca : Published for the American Historical Association by the Cornell University Press , 1949 . Pp. xi , 334 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews...

...D. Huger Bacot Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 The South Carolina Middle Country at the End of the Eighteenth Century D. Huger Bacot Knox College The middle region of South Carolina is the stretch of rolling territory, extending from the swampy, flooded tidewater belt...

...Oral Sumner Coad Copyright © 1918 by Duke University Press 1918 The American Theatre in the Eighteenth Century Oral Sumner Coad Columbia University The earliest recorded dramatic exhibition within the limits of the present United States was offered by certain citizens of Accomac in the colony...

... of the premises of taste in eighteenth-century Eng­ land in his recent From Classic to Romantic has the twin virtues of clarity and lack of bias, the best equipment an historian or critic can have to top off his indispensable offering, accurate knowledge. One would find difficulty at any rate in a casual reading...

... to imagine the dealers viewing the accumulation of such a stockpile with unconcern. Weldon Welfling. Arthur Murphy: An Eminent English Dramatist of the Eighteenth Century. By John Pike Emery. Philadelphia: University of Pennsyl­ vania Press for Temple University Publications, 1946. Pp. viii, 224- $3-50...

...Shelby T. McCloy Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 RATIONALISTS AND RELIGION IN THE' EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SHELBY T. McCLOY STEADILY after the time of the Renaissance rationalism grew in Europe until in the eighteenth century it was a more formid­ able force than ever before...

...W. H. Irving Elizabethan Poetry in the Eighteenth Century . By Wasserman Earl R. . Urbana, Illinois : The University of Illinois Press , 1947 . Pp. 291 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 432. The South Atlantic Quarterly down to 1821; it shows past...

...W. W. Abbot Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 A Cursory View of Eighteenth-Century Georgia W. W. Abbot Georgia before 1789 was so small, so remote, and its role in both imperial and American affairs so unimportant that its historian at this late date is hard put to justify...

...Wilma J. Pugh The Humanitarian Movement in Eighteenth-Century France . By McCloy Shelby T. . Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , 1957 . Pp. 265 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 Book Reviews 38i on Auden s confusing methods of revision one must...

...Harold T. Parker The Background of Napoleonic Warfare: The Theory of Military Tactics in Eighteenth-Century France . By Quimby Robert S. . New York : Columbia University Press , 1957 . Pp. viii , 385 . $6.75 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book Reviews 307...

...Robert H. Woody Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century . By Morgan Edmund S. . Williamsburg : Colonial Williamsburg, Inc. , 1952 . Pp. ix , 99 . $2.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 3io The South Atlantic Quarterly there could be no peace...

...Joel Colton French Inventions of the Eighteenth Century . By McCloy Shelby T. . Lexington : The University of Kentucky Press , 1952 . Pp. xiii , 212 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 494 The South Atlantic Quarterly These letters, together...

...Seymour H. Mauskopf In the Shadow of the Enlightenment: Occultism and Renaissance Science in Eighteenth-Century America . By Leventhal Herbert . New York : New York University Press , 1976 . Pp. 330 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 386 The South...

...Lodwick Hartley Imagining a Self: Autobiography and Novel in Eighteenth-Century England . By Spacks Patricia Myer . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1976 . Pp. 342 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 258 South Atlantic Quarterly Gallaher concludes...

...Lodwick Hartley The Thrales of Streatham Park: Journal of an eighteenth-century family . By Hyde Mary . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1977 . Pp. xi , 373 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 378 The South Atlantic Quarterly toes, and gravy he...

...Benjamin Boyce Essays in Eighteenth-Century Literature . By Landa Louis A. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1980 . Pp. viii , 241 . Cloth, $20.00 ; paper, $7.95 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 371 Essays in Eighteenth-Century...