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)
The Edinburgh Review in the Literary Culture of Romantic Britain: Mammoth and Megalonyx
1st Edition
By William Christie
January 20, 2016
From its first issue, published on the 10th October 1802, Francis Jeffrey's "Edinburgh Review" established a strong reputation and exerted a powerful influence. This is a literary study of the "Edinburgh Review" for over fifty years. It contextualizes the periodical within the culture wars of the ...
The English Deists: Studies in Early Enlightenment
1st Edition
By Wayne Hudson
January 20, 2016
Interprets the works of an important group of writers known as 'the English deists'. This title argues that this interpretation reads Romantic conceptions of religious identity into a period in which it was lacking. It contextualizes these writers within the early Enlightenment, which was ...
The Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By Jonathan Lamb
January 20, 2016
This work represents a concise history of sympathy in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, considering the phenomenon of shared feeling from five related angles: charity, the market, global exploration, theatre, and torture....
The Language of Whiggism: Liberty and Patriotism, 1802–1830
1st Edition
By Kathryn Chittick
January 20, 2016
The premise of Chittick's study is that the national discourse found in British periodical literature of 1802-30 is crucial to an understanding of the literary language of the era....
The Poetic Enlightenment: Poetry and Human Science, 1650–1820
1st Edition
By Rowan Boyson
January 20, 2016
The essays in this edited collection look at the role of poetry in the development of Enlightenment ideas. As scholarly disciplines began to emerge – anthropology, linguistics, psychology – the ancient art of poetry was invoked to create new ways of defining and expanding this philosophy of human ...
The Scottish People and the French Revolution
1st Edition
By Bob Harris
January 20, 2016
Presents a study of the political culture of Scotland in the 1790s. This book compares the emergence of 'the people' as a political force, with popular political movements in England and Ireland. It analyses Scottish responses to the French Revolution across the political spectrum; explaining ...
The Spirit of the Union: Popular Politics in Scotland
1st Edition
By Gordon Pentland
January 20, 2016
Pentland's study has 3 aims: to place the uprising in a wider context by exploring the modes of extra-parliamentary politics between 1815 and1820 as well as the situation outside Scotland; (ii) to provide the first full account of the rising itself; and (iii) to examine the legacies of both the ...
The Sublime Invention: Ballooning in Europe, 1783–1820
1st Edition
By Michael R Lynn
January 20, 2016
Ballooning, like the Enlightenment, was a Europe-wide movement and a massive cultural phenomenon. Lynn argues that in order to understand the importance of science during the age of the Enlightenment and Atlantic revolutions, it is crucial to explain how and why ballooning entered and stayed in the...
William Godwin and the Theatre
1st Edition
By David O'Shaughnessy
January 20, 2016
William Godwin is one of the most important figures of the Romantic period. He wrote four plays at the end of the 18th/beginning of the 19th centuries. This book has two main objectives: to provide the first comprehensive discussion of these four plays, and to consider the notion of theatricality ...
William Wickham, Master Spy: The Secret War Against the French Revolution
1st Edition
By Michael Durey
January 20, 2016
A biography of William Wickham (1761-1840), Britain's master spy on the Continent for more than five years during the French Revolutionary wars. It follows Wickham's career to narrate the rise and fall of his secret service community....
Writing the Empire: Robert Southey and Romantic Colonialism
1st Edition
By Carol Bolton
January 20, 2016
Examines a range of Robert Southey's writing to explore the relationship between Romantic literature and colonial politics during the expansion of Britain's second empire. This study draws upon a range of interdisciplinary materials to consider the impact of his work upon nineteenth-century views ...
The Enlightenment World 1–10
1st Edition
Edited
By Eugene Heath, Vincenzo Merolle
June 14, 2010
Contains the first ten books from the series....