Summer 2019 Books Received

Adelman, Richard, and Catherine Packham, eds. Political Economy, Literature, and the Formation of Knowledge, 1720–1850. Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature 16. New York and London: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xii + 258. $140.00. ISBN 978-1-138-54213-6.


Ahmed, Siraj. Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 266. $90.00 cloth. ISBN 978-0-8047-8529-7. $29.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-5036-0402-5.


Atkinson, David. The Ballad and Its Pasts: Literary Histories and the Play of Memory. Woodbridge UK and Rochester NY: D. S. Brewer/Boydell and Brewer, 2018. Pp. xvi + 230. $99.00. ISBN 978-1-84384-492-1.


Austen, Jane. “The Beautifull Cassandra”: A Novel in Twelve Chapters. Afterword by Claudia L. Johnson. Artwork by Leon Steinmetz. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton Univ. Press, 2018 (paper only). Pp. 72. $16.95 paper. ISBN 978-0-691 18153-0.


Baker, John, Marion Leclair, and Allan Ingram, eds. Writing and Constructing the Self in Great Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century. Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Studies. Gen. ed. Anne Dunan-Page. Manchester UK: Manchester Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 268. £96.00. ISBN 978-1-5261-2336-7.


Batchelor, Jennie, and Gillian Dow, eds. Women’s Writing, 1660–1830: Feminisms and Futures. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xxiv + 262. $119.99. ISBN 978-1-137-54381-3.


Batchelor, Jennie, and Manushag N. Powell, eds. Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690–1820s: The Long Eighteenth Century. Edinburgh History of Women’s Periodical Culture in Britain. Series ed. Jackie Jones. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. x + 510. $230.00. ISBN 978-1-4744-1965-9.


Behrendt, Stephen C. British Women Poets and the Romantic Writing Community. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2018 (paper only). Pp. xiv + 350. $34.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-4214-2704-1.


Binfield, Kevin, and William J. Christmas, eds. Teaching Laboring-Class British Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Approaches to Teaching World Literature 151. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2018. Pp. x + 350. $40.00 cloth. ISBN 978-1-60329-347-1. $24.00 paper. ISBN 978-1-60329-348-8.


Black, Joseph, et al., eds. The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 4: The Age of Romanticism. 3d edn. Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Gen. eds. Joseph Black, Leonard Conolly, Kate Flint, Isobel Grundy, Don LePan, Roy Liuzza, Jerome J. McGann, Anne Lake Prescott, Barry V. Qualls, and Claire Waters. Peterborough ON and Tonawanda NY: Broadview, 2018 (paper only). Pp. lxxxvi + 1294. $59.95. paper. ISBN 978-1-55481-311-7.


Bruder, Helen P., and Tristanne Connolly, eds. Beastly Blake. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Series eds. Susan McHugh, Robert McKay, and John Miller. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xx + 304. $119.99. ISBN 978-3-319-89787-5.


Bruhn, Mark J. Wordsworth Before Coleridge: The Growth of the Poet’s Philosophical Mind, 1785–1797. Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature 15. New York and London: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xvi + 182. $140.00. ISBN 978-1-138-48644-7.


Brylowe, Thora. Romantic Art in Practice: Cultural Work and the Sister Arts, 1760–1820. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 122. Gen. ed. James Chandler. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 276. $105.00. 978-1-108-42640-4.


Burney, Frances. The Additional Journals and Letters of Frances Burney. Vol. 2: 1791–1840. Ed. Peter Sabor. The Additional Journals and Letters of Frances Burney. Gen. ed. Peter Sabor. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xxxvi + 732. $230.00. ISBN 978-0-19-965806-0.


Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind. Toronto, Buffalo NY, and London: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2018. Pp. xxvi + 494. $44.95. ISBN 978-1-4426-2623-2.


Castro-Santana, Anaclara. Errors and Reconciliations: Marriage in the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding. Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature 17. New York and London: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xvi + 254. $149.95. ISBN 978-1-138-71028-3.


Chico, Tita. The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 242. $60.00. ISBN 978-1-5036-0544-2.


Cleland, John. Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Ed. Richard Terry and Helen Williams. Broadview Editions. Series ed. Martin R. Boyne. Peterborough ON and Tonawanda NY: Broadview, 2018 (paper only). Pp. 336. $17.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-55481-296-7.


Delbourgo, James. Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum. Cambridge MA and London: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xxxii + 512. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-674-73733-4.


DiPlacidi, Jenny. Gothic Incest: Gender, Sexuality, and Transgression. Manchester UK: Manchester Univ. Press (distributed by Oxford Univ. Press), 2018. Pp. viii +304. $110.00. ISBN 978-1-78499-306-1.


Drury, Joseph. Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xvi + 272. $80.00. ISBN 978-0-19-879238-3.


Edgeworth, Maria. Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale Taken From Facts, and From the Manners of the Irish Squires, Before the Year 1782. Ed. Julie Nash. Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Gen. eds. Joseph Black, Leonard Conolly, Kate Flint, Isobel Grundy, Don LePan, Roy Liuzza, Jerome J. McGann, Anne Lake Prescott, Barry V. Qualls, and Claire Waters. Peterborough ON and Tonawanda NY: Broadview Press, 2019 (paper only). Pp. 152. $14.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-55481-459-6.


Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative. Ed. Brycchan Carey. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018 (paper only). Pp. xxxvi + 236. $12.95 paper. ISBN 978-0-19-870752-3.


Ewers, Chris. Mobility in the English Novel from Defoe to Austen. Woodbridge UK and Rochester NY: Boydell Press/Boydell and Brewer, 2018. Pp. xiv + 228. $99.00. ISBN 978-1-78327-296-9.


Furniss, Tom. Discovering the Footsteps of Time: Geological Travel Writing about Scotland, 1700–1820. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism. Series eds. Ian Duncan and Penny Fielding. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 306. $125.00. ISBN 978-1-4744-1001-4.


Gallagher, Noelle. Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth–Century Imagination. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 276. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-300-21705-6.


Gies, David T., and Cynthia Wall, eds. The Eighteenth Centuries: Global Networks of Enlightenment. Charlottesville and London: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2018. Pp. x + 306. $39.50. ISBN 978-0-8139-4075-5.


Goldsmith, Oliver. The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith. Ed. Michael Griffin and David O’Shaughnessy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. lxviii + 168. $89.99. ISBN 978-1-107-09353-9.


Gross, Daniel M. Uncomfortable Situations: Emotion between Science and the Humanities. Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. viii + 184. $40.00. ISBN 978-0-226-48503-4.


Haggerty, George E. Queer Friendship: Male Intimacy in the English Literary Tradition. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. viii + 208. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-108-41875-1.


Hambridge, Katherine, and Jonathan Hicks. The Melodramatic Moment: Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790–1820. Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 284. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-226-54365-9.


Haywood, Eliza. The Fortunate Foundlings. Ed. Carol Stewart. MHRA Critical Texts 59. Cambridge UK: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2018 (paper only). Pp. viii + 272. $17.50 paper. ISBN 978-1-78188-267-2.


Hone, Joseph. Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne. Oxford English Monographs. Gen. eds. Paulina Kewes, Laura Marcus, Peter McCullough, Heather O’Donoghue, Seamus Perry, Lloyd Pratt, and Fiona Stafford. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xii + 212. $80.00. ISBN 978-0-19-881407-8.


Jensen, Oskar Cox, David Kennerley, and Ian Newman, eds. Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xxvi + 262. $74.00. ISBN 978-0-19-881242-5.


Johnson, Samuel. Samuel Johnson. Ed. David Womersley. 21st-Century Oxford Authors. General ed. Seamus Perry. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xxxviii + 1306. $135.00. ISBN 978-0-19-960951-2.


King, Rachael Scarborough. Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 260. $44.95. ISBN 978-1-4214-2548-1.


Kramnick, Jonathan. Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness. Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. x + 198. $75.00 cloth. ISBN 978-0-226-57301-4. $25.00 paper. ISBN 978-0-226-57315-1.


Lee, Wendy Anne. Failures of Feeling: Insensibility and the Novel. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. 236. $10.00. ISBN 978-1-5036-0680-7.


Lupton, Christina. Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 204. $49.95. ISBN 978-1-4214-2576-4.


Mann, Annika. Reading Contagion: The Hazards of Reading in the Age of Print. Charlottesville and London: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 258. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-8139-4177-6.


Miller, Derek. Copyright and the Value of Performance, 1770–1911. Theatre and Performance Theory. Series ed. Tracy C. Davis. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. viii + 286. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-108-42588-9.


Miller, Laura. Reading Popular Newtonianism: Print, the “Principia,” and the Dissemination of Newtonian Science. Charlottesville and London: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2018. Pp. xviii + 230. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-8139-4125-7.


Montagu, Elizabeth. An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear, Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets: With Some Remarks upon the Misrepresentations of Monsieur de Voltaire. Cambridge Library Collection – Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018 (paper only). Pp. 248. $29.99 paper. ISBN 978-1-108-08391-1.


O’Loughlin, Katrina. Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. viii + 280. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-107-08852-8.


O’Quinn, Daniel, and Alexis Tadié, eds. Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850. Toronto, Buffalo NY, and London: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 364. $85.00. ISBN 978-1-4875-0032-0.


O’Quinn, Daniel. Engaging the Ottoman Empire: Vexed Meditations, 1690–1815. Material Texts. Series eds. Roger Chartier, Joseph Farrell, Anthony Grafton, Leah Price, Peter Stallybrass, and Michael F. Suarez, S. J. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. 472. $75.00. ISBN 978-0-8122-5060-2.


Purcell, Mark. The Country House Library. New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press (published for National Trust), 2017. Pp. 352. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-300-22740-6.


Rasmussen, Dennis C. The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship that Shaped Modern Thought. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xvi + 320. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-691-17701-4.


Regier, Alexander. Exorbitant Romanticism: Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German Constellations. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 260. $74.00. ISBN 978-0-19-882712-2.


Ross, Trevor. Writing in Public: Literature and the Liberty of the Press in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. x + 302. $54.95. ISBN 978-1-4214-2631-0.


Runia, Robin, ed. The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship: Beyond Recovery. Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature 14. New York and London: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xiv + 192. $149.95. ISBN 978-1-138-57137-2.


Sachs, Jonathan. The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 118. Gen. ed. James Chandler. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 242. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-108-42031-0.


Schechter, Joel. Eighteenth-Century Brechtians: Theatrical Satire in the Age of Walpole. Exteter Performance Studies. Series eds. Peter Thomson, Graham Ley, and Steve Nicholson. Exeter UK: Univ. of Exeter Press (distributed by Univ. of Chicago Press), 2018 (paper only). Pp. xii + 282. $34.00 paper. ISBN 978-0-85989-335-0.


Senior, Emily. The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764-1834: Slavery, Disease and Colonial Modernity. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 119. Gen. ed. James Chandler. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 292. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-108-41681-8.


Sha, Richard C. Imagination and Science in Romanticism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 330. $59.95. ISBN 978-1-4214-2578-8.


Smith, Charlotte. Charlotte Smith: The Major Poetic Works. Ed. Claire Knowles and Ingrid Horrocks. Broadview Editions. Series ed. Martin R. Boyne. Peterborough ON and Tonawanda NY: Broadview, 2017 (paper only). Pp. 280. $18.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-55481-284-4.


Sterne, Laurence. Tristram Shandy. Ed. Judith Hawley. Norton Critical Editions. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2019 (paper only). Pp. x + 560. $22.50 paper. ISBN 978-0-393-92136-6.


Strabone, Jeff. Poetry and British Nationalisms in the Bardic Eighteenth Century: Imagined Antiquities. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Cultures of Print. Series eds. Anne K. Mellor and Clifford Siskin. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xvi + 356. $99.99. ISBN 978-3-319-95254-3.


Sudan, Rajani. The Alchemy of Empire: Abject Materials and the Technologies of Colonialism. New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 2016. Pp. viii + 224. $85.00 cloth. ISBN 978-0-8232-7067-5. $25.00 paper. ISBN 978-0-8232-7068-2.


Taylor, David Francis. The Politics of Parody: A Literary History of Caricature, 1760–1830. Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History. New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 308. $50.00. ISBN 978-0-300-22375-0.


West, John. Dryden and Enthusiasm: Literature, Religion, and Politics in Restoration England. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. x + 214. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-19-881640-9.


Wharton, Joanna. Material Enlightenment: Women Writers and the Science of Mind, 1770–1830. Studies in the Eighteenth Century. Series eds. Ros Ballaster, Matthew Grenby, Robert D. Hume, Mark Knights, Renaud Morieux. Woodbridge UK and Rochester NY: Boydell Press (in association with the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies)/Boydell and Brewer, 2018. Pp. xii + 276. $99.00. ISBN 978-1-78327-295-2.


Winckles, Andrew O., and Angela Rehbein, eds. Women’s Literary Networks and Romanticism: “A Tribe of Authoresses.” Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780–1850. Series eds. Tim Fulford and Alan Vardy. Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xii + 318. $125.00. ISBN 978-1-78694-060-5.


Yahav, Amit S. Feeling Time: Duration, the Novel, and the Eighteenth-Century Sensibility. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 202. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-8122-5017-6.