Books Received

Addison, Joseph. Cato: A Tragedy, and Selected Essays. Ed. Christine Dunn Henderson and Mark E. Yellin. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004. Pp. xxvii + 284. $24.00. ISBN 0-86597-442-X.

The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 16 (2005). Ed. Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. New York: AMS Press, 2005. Pp. xiv + 374. $144.50. ISBN 0-404-62755-8.

Appelbaum, Robert, and John Wood Sweet, eds. Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Pp. xvi + 376. $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-8122-1903-1.

Armstrong, Nancy. How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719–1900. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2005. Pp. xii + 196. $24.50 paper. ISBN 0-231-13059-7.

Augustin, Sabine. Eighteenth-Century Female Voices: Education and the Novel. Trierer Studien Zur Literatur 42. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005. Pp. x + 234. $47.95 paper. ISBN 0-8204-7373-1.

Backscheider, Paula R. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2005. Pp. xxx + 514. $65.00. ISBN 0-8018-8169-2.

Ballaster, Ros. Fables of the East: Selected Tales, 1662–1785. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. Pp. viii + 280. $29.95 paper. ISBN 0-19-926735-9.

Ballaster, Ros. Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England, 1662–1785. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. Pp. xiv + 410. $49.95. ISBN 0-19-926733-2.

Batchelor, Jennie, and Cora Kaplan, eds. British Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century: Authorship, Politics, and History. Hampshire UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. xii + 196. $65.00. ISBN 1-4039-4931-X.

Batchelor, Jennie. Dress, Distress, and Desire: Clothing and the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Literature. Hampshire UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. x + 222. $74.95. ISBN 1-4039-4847-X.

Bayle, Pierre. A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke 14:23, "Compel Them to Come In, That My House May Be Full." Ed. and intro. John Kilcullen and Chandran Kukathas. Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005. Pp. xxvi + 646. $12.00 paper. ISBN 0-86597-495-0.

Brewer, David A. The Afterlife of Character, 1726–1825. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Pp. x + 262. $59.95. ISBN 0-8122-3684-8.

Carretta, Vincent. Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man. Athens and London: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2005. Pp. xxviii + 436. $29.95. ISBN 0-8203-2571-6.

Carter, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Carter, 1717–1806: An Edition of Some Unpublished Letters. Ed. Gwen Hampshire. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press; Cranbury NJ: Associated Univ. Presses, 2005. Pp. 232. $52.50. ISBN 0-87413-912-0.

Casid, Jill H. Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2005. Pp. xxiii + 281. $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-8166-4096-3.

Chico, Tita. Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture. Lewisburg PA: Bucknell Univ. Press; Cranbury NJ: Associated Univ. Presses, 2005. Pp. 304. $55.00. ISBN 0-8387-5605-0.

Cleland, John. Memoirs of a Coxcomb. Ed. Hal Gladfelder. Peterborough ON: Broadview, 2005. Pp. 284. $12.95 paper. ISBN 1-55111-5688-9.

Clery, E. J. The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England: Literature, Commerce, and Luxury. Hampshire UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. xii + 236. $27.95 paper. ISBN 0-333-77732-8.

Coleman, Julie. A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries Volume 1: 1567–1785. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004. Pp. xii + 260. $95.00. ISBN 0-19-925-471-0.

Crowe, Ian, ed. An Imaginative Whig: Reassessing the Life and Thought of Edmund Burke. Columbia and London: Univ. of Missouri Press, 2005. Pp. xii + 252. $44.95. ISBN 0-8262-1557-2.

Crowley, Tony. Wars of Words: The Politics of Language in Ireland, 1537–2004. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. Pp. x + 254. $55.00. ISBN 0-19-927343-X.

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