The Enlightenment World
About the Book Series
This series features monographs that take an innovative and challenging look at the political and intellectual history of the Enlightenment period. The richness of the Enlightenment experience makes it a significant topic for study. It had a profound impact on nearly every aspect of life during the long eighteenth century and many of its values are familiar to modern society. Some of the key themes that this series embraces include the scientific revolution; philosophical origins and progress of the Enlightenment; high and popular culture; the political impact of the Enlightenment; and its comparative impact in a broad European context.
Series Editor: Michael T Davis (Griffith University)
Series Co-Editors: Jack Fruchtman (Towson University)
Kevin Gilmartin (Caltech)
Jon Mee (University of York)
Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment
1st Edition
By Alex Benchimol
October 14, 2024
This collection of essays is the result of a major conference focusing specifically on the role of Scotland’s print culture in shaping the literature and politics of the long eighteenth century. In contrast to previous studies, this work treats Blackwood’s Magazine as the culmination of a long ...
Mary Wollstonecraft and Feminist Republicanism: Independence, Rights and the Experience of Unfreedom
1st Edition
By Lena Halldenius
October 14, 2024
Mary Wollstonecraft is a writer whose work continues to provoke scholarly debate. Halldenius explores Wollstonecraft’s political philosophy, focusing on her treatment of republicanism and independence, to propose a new way of reading her work – that of a ‘feminist republican’....
A Forgotten Christian Deist: Thomas Morgan
1st Edition
By Jan van den Berg
January 09, 2023
This is a cultural and intellectual biography of a neglected but important figure, Thomas Morgan (1671/2–1743). Educated at Bridgewater Academy, he was active as Presbyterian preacher, medical practitioner, and one of the first who called himself a Christian Deist. Morgan was not only a harbinger ...
British Jacobin Politics, Desires, and Aftermaths: Seditious Hearts
1st Edition
By James Epstein, David Karr
August 29, 2022
This book explores the hopes, desires, and imagined futures that characterized British radicalism in the 1790s, and the resurfacing of this sense of possibility in the following decades. The articulation of “Jacobin” sentiments reflected the emotional investments of men and women inspired by the ...
Cameralism and the Enlightenment: Happiness, Governance and Reform in Transnational Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Ere Nokkala, Nicholas B. Miller
December 13, 2021
Cameralism and the Enlightenment reassesses the relationship between two key phenomena of European history often disconnected from each other. It builds on recent insights from global history, transnational history and Enlightenment studies to reflect on the dynamic interactions of cameralism, an ...
William Cobbett, Romanticism and the Enlightenment: Contexts and Legacy
1st Edition
Edited
By James Grande, John Stevenson
June 30, 2021
William Cobbett was one of the greatest journalists of his day. Humbly born in Surrey, following a career in the British army in Canada from 1784, he cut his journalistic teeth as the loyalist 'Peter Porcupine' in the United States, defending all things British against the French Revolution and its...
Henry Redhead Yorke, Colonial Radical: Politics and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1772-1813
1st Edition
By Amanda Goodrich
September 30, 2020
This is a political, cultural and intellectual biography of the neglected but important figure, Henry Redhead Yorke. A West Indian of African/British descent, born into a slave society but educated in Georgian England, he developed a complex identity to which politics was key. The most ...
Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840
1st Edition
Edited
By Alex Benchimol, Gerard Lee McKeever
August 14, 2020
The first applied research volume in Scottish Romanticism, this collection foregrounds the concept of progress as 'improvement' as a constitutive theme of Scottish writing during the long eighteenth century. It explores improvement as the animating principle behind Scotland’s post-1707 project of ...
Liberating Medicine, 1720–1835
1st Edition
Edited
By Tristanne Connolly, Steve Clark
February 04, 2016
During the 18th century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack barber-surgeons of early modernity. This title presents 17 essays on the relationship between medicine and ...
Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human Nature
1st Edition
Edited
By Eugene Heath, Vincenzo Merolle
January 20, 2016
Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains essays that range across all of Ferguson's works to investigate his engagement with contemporary events and his contributions to our ...
Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society
1st Edition
By Eugene Heath
January 20, 2016
Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains a set of essays that analyse Ferguson's philosophical, political and sociological writings and the discourse which they prompted ...
British Visions of America, 1775-1820: Republican Realities
1st Edition
By Emma Macleod
January 20, 2016
Macleod examines changing British conceptions of America across the political spectrum during a period of political, cultural and intellectual upheaval. Macleod incorporates British writers of conservative, liberal and radical views....