Books Recently Received

Books Received List November 1996–January 1997

Allan, Seán. The Plays of Heinrich von Kleist: Ideals and Illusions (New York: Cambridge, 1996). Pp. xviii + 315. $59.95.

Allen, Brian and Larissa Dukelskaya, eds. British Art Treasures From Russian Imperial Collections in the Hermitage (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1996). Pp. 328. $65.00.

Bowers, Toni. The politics of motherhood: British writing and culture 1680–1760 (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996). Pp. xv + 262. $54.95.

Brewer, John and Susan Staves, eds. Early Modern Conceptions of Property (New York: Routledge, 1996). Pp. xiv + 599. $39.95 paper.

Broman, Thomas H. The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750–1820 (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996). Pp. x + 209. $54.95.

Cassuto, Leonard. The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1996). Pp. 289. $49.50 cloth, 17.50 paper.

Chard, Chloe and Helen Langdon, eds. Transports: Travel, Pleasure, and Imaginative Geography, 1600–1830 (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1996). Pp. 352. $50.00.

De Bruyn, Frans. The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke: The Political Uses of Literary Form (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996). Pp. ix + 318. $72.00.

Elofson, Warren and John Woods, eds. The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Party, Parliament, and the American War, 1774–1780 (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996). Pp. xx + 713. $138.00.

Erspamer, Peter. The Elusiveness of Tolerance: The “Jewish Question” from Lessing to the Napoleonic Wars (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1997). Pp. 189.

Everett, Paul. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons and Other Concertos, OP. 8 (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996). Pp. xiv + 104. $29.95 cloth, 10.95 paper.

Fry, Carrol. Charlotte Smith (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996). Pp. 170. $28.95.

Garnham, Neal. The Courts, Crime and the Criminal Law in Ireland, 1692–1760 (Portland: International Specialized Book Services, Inc., 1996). Pp. 309. $47.50.

Genet, Jacqueline, ed. Rural Ireland, Real Ireland? (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996). Pp. 245. $49.95.

Gleckner, Robert. Gray Agonistes: Thomas Gray and Masculine Friendship (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1996). Pp. x + 231. $45.00.

Griffin, Dustin. Literary Patronage in England 1650–1800 (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996). Pp. 317. $49.95.

Guskin, Phyllis J., ed. Clio: The Autobiography of Martha Fowke Sanson, 1689–1736 (Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1997). Pp. 210. $36.50.

Hayton, D. W., ed. The Parliamentary Diary of Sir Richard Cocks, 1698–1702 (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996). Pp. 345. $110.00.

Hicks, Philip. Neo-Classical History and English Culture: From Clarendon to Hume (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997). Pp. 289. $59.95.

Hufton, Olwen, ed. Women in the Religious Life (San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy: European Univ. Insititute, 1996). Pp. 159.

Jacobs, Helmut. Organisation und Institutionalisierung der Künste und Wissenschaften (Frankfurt: Vervuert, 1996). Pp. 115.

Kaufmann, Wanda Ostrowska. The Anthropology of Wisdom Literature (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996). Pp. 184. $49.95.

Kavanagh, Thomas. Esthetics of the Moment: Literature and Art in the French Enlightenment (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1996). Pp. 294. $45.00.

Klonk, Charlotte. Science and the Perception of Nature: British Landscape Art in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1996). Pp. 208. $55.00.

Knee, Philip. Penser L’Appartenance Enjeux des Lumières en France (Quebec: Univ. of Quebec Press, 1996). Pp. x + 270.

Koterski, Joseph. Life and Learning V (Washington D.C.: Univ. Faculty for Life, 1996). Pp. 401.

Kraus, Werner. Aufklärung III: Deutschland und Spanien (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter & Co., 1996). Pp. 810. DM 156.

Kwansny, Mark V. Washington’s Partisan War, 1775–1783 (Kent: The Kent State Univ. Press, 1996). Pp. 425. $35.00.

Mason, Laura. Singing the French Revolution: Popular Culture and Politics, 1787–1799 (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1996). Pp. xi + 268. $39.95.

McFarland, Thomas. Paradoxes of Freedom: The Romantic Mystique of a Transcendence (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996). Pp. xix + 139. $45.00.

Melançon, Benoît. Diderot Épistollier: Contribution à une poétique de la lettre familière au XVIII siècle (Quebec: Fides, 1996). Pp. 512. $39.95.

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