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)
Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism
1st Edition
Edited
By Jacqueline Labbe
January 20, 2016
Charlotte Smith's early sonnets established the genre as a Romantic form; her novels advanced sensibility beyond its reliance on emotional facility; and her blank verse initiated one of the most familiar of Romantic verse forms. This volume draws together the best of current scholarship....
Dialogue, Didacticism and the Genres of Dispute: Literary Dialogues in the Age of Revolution
1st Edition
By Adrian J Wallbank
January 20, 2016
Dialogue was a pivotal genre for the spread of Enlightenment ideas. Focusing on non-canonical British writers Wallbank examines the evolution of dialogue as a genre during the Romantic period....
Enlightenment and Modernity: The English Deists and Reform
1st Edition
By Wayne Hudson
January 20, 2016
The writers known as the English deists were not simply religious controversialists, but agents of reform who contributed to the emergence of modernity. This title claims that these writers advocated a failed ideology which itself declined after 1730. It argues for an evolution of their ideas into ...
Harlequin Empire: Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular Enlightenment
1st Edition
By David Worrall
January 20, 2016
Under the 1737 Licensing Act, Covent Garden, Dury Lane and regional Theatres Royal held a monopoly on the dramatic canon. This work explores the presentation of foreign cultures and ethnicities on the popular British stage from 1750 to 1840. It argues that this illegitimate stage was the site for a...
John Thelwall: Radical Romantic and Acquitted Felon
1st Edition
Edited
By Steve Poole
January 20, 2016
John Thelwall was a Romantic and Enlightenment polymath. In 1794 he was tried and acquitted of high treason, earning himself the disdainful soubriquet 'acquitted felon' from Secretary of State for War, William Windham. Later, Thelwall's interests turned to poetry and plays, and was a collaborator ...
Montesquieu and England: Enlightened Exchanges, 1689–1755
1st Edition
By Ursula Haskins Gonthier
January 20, 2016
Gonthier sets Montesquieu's work in the context of early eighteenth-century Anglo-French relations, taking a comparative approach to show how Montesquieu's engagement with English thought and writing persisted throughout his writing career....
Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment
1st Edition
By Alexander Cook
January 20, 2016
The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human. This collection of essays traces the concept of ‘humanity’ through revolutionary politics, feminist biography, portraiture, explorer narratives, libertine and Orientalist fiction, the philosophy of ...
Rhyming Reason: The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists
1st Edition
By Michelle Faubert
January 20, 2016
During the Romantic era, psychology and literature enjoyed a fluid relationship. Faubert focuses on psychologist-poets who grew out of the literary-medical culture of the Scottish Enlightenment. They used poetry as an accessible form to communicate emerging psychological, cultural and moral ideas....
Robert and James Adam, Architects of the Age of Enlightenment
1st Edition
By Ariyuki Kondo
January 20, 2016
During the second half of the eighteenth century British architecture moved away from the dominant school of classicism in favour of a more creative freedom of expression. At the forefront of this change were architect brothers Robert and James Adam. Kondo’s work places them within the context of ...
Romantic Localities: Europe Writes Place
1st Edition
Edited
By Christoph Bode, Jacqueline Labbe
January 20, 2016
Romantic Localities explores the ways in which Romantic-period writers of varying nationalities responded to languages, landscapes – both geographical and metaphorical – and literatures....
Sociability and Cosmopolitanism: Social Bonds on the Fringes of the Enlightenment
1st Edition
Edited
By David Burrow, Scott Brueninger
January 20, 2016
This collection of essays expands the focus of Enlightenment studies to include countries outside the core nations of France, Germany and Britain. Notions of sociability and cosmopolitanism are explored as ways in which people sought to improve society....
The Cosmopolitan Ideal
1st Edition
By Michael Scrivener
January 20, 2016
Examines the new internationalism which emerged in Europe during the Enlightenment. This is the study of cosmopolitanism, which takes into account feminist and post-colonial critiques of the Enlightenment. It also offers cosmopolitanism as a solution to contemporary struggles to reach a ...