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  • Books Received*

Books Received January through March 2010

Berchtold, Jacques and Marie-Madeleine Fragonard, eds. La Mémoire des Guerres de Religion II: Enjeu historique, enjeu politique, 1760–1830 (Genève: Librarie Droz, 2009). Pp. 392. €84.08 paper.
Budick, Sanford. Kant and Milton (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010). Pp. 352. $49.95 cloth.
Burnand, Léonard. Les Pamphlets contre Necker: Médias et imaginaire politique au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Éditions Classiques Ganier, 2009). Pp. 409. €59 paper.
Cossy, Valérie. Béla Kapossy, and Richard Whatmore, eds. Genève, lieu d’Angleterre, 1725–1814 / Geneva, an English Enclave, 1725–1814 (Genève: Éditions Slatkine, 2009). Pp. 348. €63 cloth.
Darnton, Robert. The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009). Pp. 552. $34.95 cloth.
Dekoninck, Ralph, Agnès Guiderdoni-Bruslé, and Nathalie Kremer, eds. Aux limites de l’imitation: L’ut pictura poesis à l’épreuve de la matière (XVIe–XVIIIe siècles) (New York: Éditions Rodopi B.V., 2009). Pp. 292. $81 paper.
Edelstein, Dan, ed. The Super-Enlightenment: Daring to Know Too Much (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2010). Pp. 300. $94 paper.
Ekirch, A. Roger. Birthright: The True Story that Inspired “Kidnapped” (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Pp. 258. $24.95 cloth.
Ellenzweig, Sarah. The Fringes of Belief: English Literature, Ancient Heresy, and the Politics of Freethinking, 1660–1760 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008). Pp. 256. $60 cloth. [End Page 547]
Favret, Mary A. War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009). Pp. 280. $60 cloth, $26.95 paper.
Fay, Elizabeth A. Fashioning Faces: The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism (Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2010). Pp. 340. $55 cloth.
Flamarion, Edith, ed. La chair et le verbe: les jésuites de France au XVIIIe siècle et l’image (Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2009). Pp. 216. €24 paper.
Gee, Sophie. Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009). Pp. 216. $26.95 cloth.
Herman, Jan. Le Récit génétique au XVIIIe siècle (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2009). Pp. 258. $103 paper.
Higgins, Padhraig. A Nation of Politicians: Gender, Patriotism, and Political Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010). Pp. 368. $29.95 paper.
Hsia, Florence C. Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009). Pp. 296. $45 cloth.
Hunt, Lynn, Margaret C. Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt, eds. Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2010). Pp. 388. $65 paper.
Hunt, Lynn, Margaret C. Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt. The Book that Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard’s Religious Ceremonies of the World (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010). Pp. 400. $32.95 cloth.
LaCroix, Alison L. The Ideological Origins of American Federalism (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010). Pp. 320. $35 cloth.
Leddy, Neven and Avi S. Lifschitz, eds. Epicurus in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2009). Pp. 258. $103 paper.
Macpherson, Sandra. Harm’s Way: Tragic Responsibility and the Novel Form (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). Pp. 256. $55 cloth.
Marivaux, Pierre de. Journaux 1, Marc Escola, Érik Leborgne, and Jean-Christophe Abramovici, eds. (Paris: Éditions Flammarion, 2010). Pp. 424. €8.80 paper.
Marivaux, Pierre de. Journaux 2, Érik Leborgne, Jean-Christophe Abramovici, and Marc Escola, eds. (Paris: Éditions Flammarion, 2010). Pp. 426. €9.80 paper.
Park, Julie. The Self and It: Novel Objects and Mimetic Subjects in Eighteenth-Century England (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009). Pp. 312. $50 cloth.
Pelleport, Anne Gédéon Lafitte, Marquis de. The Bohemians, Robert Darnton, ed. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009). Pp. 272. $34.95 cloth.
Pinkus, Karen. Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009). Pp. 232. $55 cloth. [End Page 548]
Pitcairne, Archibald. The Latin Poems, John MacQueen and Winifred MacQueen, trans. and eds. (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2009). Pp. 484. $89 cloth.
Poirson, Martial, ed. Perrault en Scène: Transpositions Théâtrales de Contes Merveilleux, 1697–1800...

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