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  • Books Received*

Books received from April through June 2012

Anderson, Misty G. Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Enthusiasm, Belief, and the Borders of the Self (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). Pp. 296. $65.00 cloth.
Andrea, Bernadette. English Women Staging Islam, 1696-1707 (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012). Pp. 533. $37.00 paper.
Ansart, Guillaume, ed. Condorcet: Writings on the United States (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2012). Pp. 160. $62.95 cloth.
Auchterlonie, Paul. Encountering Islam: Joseph Pitts: An English slave in 17th-century Algiers and Mecca. A critical edition, with biographical introduction and notes, of Joseph Pitts of Exeter's "A faithful account of the religion and manners of the Mahometans," 1731 (London: Arabian Publishing LTD, 2012). Pp. 354. $96.00 cloth.
Bannister, Jerry, and Liam Riordan, eds. The Loyal Atlantic: Remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary Era (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012). Pp. 2011. $29.95 paper.
Beattie, J. M. The First English Detectives: The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750-1840 (New York: Oxford University Press USA, 2012). Pp. 352. $125.00 cloth.
Belcher, Wendy Laura. Abyssinia's Samuel Johnson: Ethiopian Thought in the Making of an English Author (New York: Oxford University Press USA, 2012). Pp. 304. $74.00 cloth. [End Page 175]
Berman, Ric. The Foundations of Modern Freemasonry: The Grand Architects—Political Change and the Scientific Enlightenment, 1714-1740 (Eastbourne, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2012). Pp. 320. £25.00, $39.95 paper.
Bohanan, Donna. Fashion beyond Versailles: Consumption and Design in Seventeenth-Century France (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2012). Pp. 168. $40.00 cloth.
Bowers, Toni, and Tita Chico, eds. Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century: Seduction and Sentiment (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Pp. 282. $85.00 cloth.
Breuninger, Scott, and David Burrow, eds. Sociability and Cosmopolitanism: Social Bonds on the Fringes of the Enlightenment (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012). Pp. 240. £60.00, $99.00 cloth
Brownley, Martine W., ed. Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's "Life of Johnson" (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2012). Pp. 174. $59.99 cloth.
Cahill, Edward. Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). Pp. 328. $65.00, £42.50 cloth.
Canuel, Mark. Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). Pp. 192. $49.95 cloth.
Caradonna, Jeremy L. The Enlightenment in Practice (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012). Pp. 352. $59.95 cloth.
Casalena, Maria Pia. Sismondi Biographe: L'histoire Italienne dans la Biographie Universelle et L'encyclopédie des gens (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2012). Pp. 712. €112.00 cloth.
Chmielewski, Laura M. The Spice of Popery: Converging Christianities on an Early American Frontier (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012). Pp. 384. $38.00 paper.
Clark, Rex, and Oliver Lubrich, eds. Cosmos and Colonialism: Alexander von Humboldt in Cultural Criticism (Brooklyn, NY: Berghahn Books, 2012). Pp. 480. $120.00, £75.00 cloth.
———. Transatlantic Echoes: Alexander von Humboldt in World Literature (New York: Berghahn Books, 2012). Pp. 364. $120.00, £75.00 cloth.
Collett-White, James. How Bedfordshire Voted, 1735-1784: The Evidence of Local Documents and Poll Books (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2012). Pp. 332. $45.00 cloth.
Crosby, Mark, Troy Patenaude, and Angus Whitehead, eds. Re-envisioning Blake (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Pp. 280. $85.00 cloth.
Csengei, Ildiko. Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Pp. 280. $85.00 cloth.
Dabhoiwala, Faramerz. The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press USA, 2012). Pp. 496. $34.95 cloth. [End Page 176]
Dickie, Simon. Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011). Pp. 384. $45.00 cloth.
Dirst, Matthew. Engaging Bach: The Keyboard Legacy from Marpurg to Mendelssohn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). Pp. 200. $99.00 cloth.
Eltis, David, and David Richardson. Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010). Pp. 336. $50.00 cloth.
Everton, Michael J. The Grand Chorus of Complaint: Authors and the Business Ethics...

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