Books Received

Books Received from February to March 2000

Adams, Christine. A Taste for Comfort and Status: A Bourgeois Family in Eighteenth-Century France (Univ. Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2000). Pp. x + 292. $65.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.

Bewell, Alan. Romanticism and Colonial Disease (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1999). Pp. xv + 373. $45.00 cloth.

Bork, Jim S., ed. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (New York: AMS Press, 1999). Pp. 502. $159.50 cloth.

Borsay, Anne. Medicine and Charity in Georgian Bath: A Social History of the General Infirmary, c. 1739­1830 The History of Medicine in Context (Brookfield: Ashgate, 1999). Pp. xii + 484. $96.95 cloth.

Burling, William J. Summer Theatre in London, 1661­1820, and the Rise of the Haymarket
Theatre (Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 2000). Pp. 326. $45.00 cloth.

Cosgrove, Peter. Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (Cranbury, NJ: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1999). Pp. 290. $43.50 cloth.

Cruise, James. Governing Consumption: Needs and Wants, Suspended Characters, and the "Origins" of Eighteenth-Century English (Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell Univ. Press, 1999). Pp. 246. $42.50 cloth.

Daniels, Christine and Michael Kennedy, eds. Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America (London: Routledge, 1999). Pp. viii + 296. $19.95 paper.

de Charrière, Isabelle. There are no Letters Like Yours (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2000). Pp. xxxiii + 549. $29.95 cloth.

Evans, Scott D. Samuel Johnson's "General Nature": Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth-Century Discourse (Cranbury, NJ: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1999). Pp. 168. $32.50 cloth.

Flynn, Carol Houlihan and Edward Copeland, eds. Clarissa and Her Readers: New Essays for the "Clarissa" Project (New York: AMS Press, 1999). Pp. 319. $84.50 cloth.

Goldie, Mark. The Reception of Locke's Politics: From the 1690s to the 1830s (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1999). 6 vols. Pp. lxxxviii + 369, vi + 377, vi + 384, vi + 448, vi + 385, viii + 405. $795.00 cloth.

Gould, Eliga H. The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2000). Pp. xxiv + 262. $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper.

Grell, Ole Peter and Roy Porter, eds. Toleration in Enlightenment Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000). Pp. ix + 270. $59.95 cloth.

Guerrini, Anita. Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment: The Life and Times of George Cheyne (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2000). Pp. xx + 283. $25.95 cloth, $15.95 paper.

Johns, Alessa, ed. Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment (London: Routledge, 1999). Pp. xxv + 198. $19.99 paper.

Lang-Peralta, Linda, ed. Women, Revolution, and the Novels of the 1790s (East Lansing: Michigan State Univ. Press, 1999). Pp. xv + 192. $21.95 paper.

Livingstone, David N. and Charles W. J. Withers. Geography and Enlightenment (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1999). Pp. viii + 455. $52.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.

Lopez, Claude-Anne. My Life with Benjamin Franklin (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2000). Pp. xxii + 261. $17.50 cloth.

Marchal, France. La Culture de Diderot (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1999). Pp. 501. FF 430.00 cloth.

Miller, Lillian B. and Sidney Hart, eds. The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and his Family, volume 5: The Autobiography of Charles Willson Peale. (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2000). Pp. xli + 513. $75.00 cloth.

Parker, Todd C. Sexing the Text: The Rhetoric of Sexual Difference in British Literature, 1700­1750 (Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 2000). Pp. x + 218. $17.95 paper.

Poulot, Dominique. Les Lumières (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2000). Pp. x + 418. FF 128 paper.

Rehder, Robert, ed. A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1999). Pp. lxx + 171. $50.00 cloth.

Sparrow, Elizabeth. Secret Service: British Agents in France 1792­1815 (Rochester: Boydell, 1999). Pp. xvi + 459. $78.00 cloth, $45.00 paper.

Terrasse, Jean. Le Temps et l'espace dans les romans de Diderot (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1999). Pp. i + 180. £ 45.00 cloth.

Whyman, Susan E. Sociability and Power...