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Eighteenth-Century Life 24.2 (2000) 128-130



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Backscheider, Paula R., ed. Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women's Fiction" and Social Engagement (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2000). Pp. xv + 273. $39.95. ISBN 0-8018-6236-1

Bahrdt, Carl Friedrich. "The Edict of Religion. A Comedy" and "The Story and Diary of My Imprisonment," trans., ed., & intro. John Christian Laursen & Johan van der Zande (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2000). Pp. v + 131. $70, $21.95 paper. ISBN 0-7391-0089-0; 0090-4

Boyle, Nicholas. Goethe: The Poet and the Age, vol. 2: Revolution and Renunciation, 1790-1803 (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2000). Pp. xiv + 949. $45. ISBN 0-19-815869-6

Burke, Edmund. On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters, ed. David Bromwich (New Haven & London: Yale Univ., 2000). Pp. 536. $35, $15 paper. ISBN 0-300-08146-4; 08147-2

Charrière, Isabelle de. There Are No Letters Like Yours: The Correspondence of Isabelle de Charrière and Constant d'Hermenches, trans., intro., & annotations Janet Whatley & Malcolm Whatley (Lincoln & London: Univ. of Nebraska, 2000). Pp. xxxii + 538. $29.95. ISBN 0-8032-1714-5

Christie, Christopher. The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century (Manchester & N.Y.: Manchester Univ., 2000). Pp. xvi + 333. $69.95, $29.95 paper. ISBN 0-7190-4724-2; 4725-0. Dist. in USA by St. Martin's Press.

Clark, J. C. D. English Society, 1660-1832: Religion, Ideology and Politics during the Ancien Regime, 2nd edn. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2000). Pp. xii + 580. $74.95, $27.95 paper. ISBN 0-521-66180-3; 66627-9

Cross, David A. A Striking Likeness: The Life of George Romney (Aldershot & Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 2000). Pp. xiv + 258. $59.95. ISBN 1-84014-671-0

Daniels, Charlotte. Subverting the Family Romance: Women Writers, Kinship Structures, and the Early French Novel (Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ.; London: Associated Univ. Presses, 2000). Pp. 187. $36. ISBN 0-8387-5410-4

Davis, Michael T., ed. Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775-1848 (London: Macmillan; N.Y.: St. Martin's, 2000). Pp. xv + 242. $65. ISBN 0-312-22490-7

Dolan, Brian. Exploring European Frontiers: British Travellers in the Age of Enlightenment (London: Macmillan; N.Y.: St. Martin's, 2000). Pp. xi + 232. $59.95. ISBN 0-312-23051-6

Dolan, John. Poetic Occasion from Milton to Wordsworth (London: Macmillan; N.Y.: St. Martin's, 2000). Pp. 219. $59.95. ISBN 0-312-22094-4

Feldman, Burton, and Robert D. Richardson, Jr. The Rise of Modern Mythology 1680-1860, foreword by Wendy Doniger; 1972 foreword by Mircea Eliade (1972; Bloomington: Indiana Univ., 2000). Pp. xxvii + 564. $49.95, $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-253-35012-3; 20188-8

Fyfe, Christopher, ed. Anna Maria Falconbridge: "Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone During the Years, 1791-1792-1793," and "The Journal of Isaac DuBois," with Alexander Falconbridge, "An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa" (Liverpool: Liverpool Univ., 2000). Pp. 192. $21.95 paper. ISBN 0-85323-643-7. Dist. in USA by ISBS.

Goodman, Elise. The Portraits of Madame de Pompadour: Celebrating the Femme Savant (Berkeley: Univ. of California, 2000). Pp. xx + 188. $45. ISBN 0-520-21794-2

Hoffman, Ronald, in collaboration with Sally D. Mason. Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782 (Chapel Hill & London: Univ. of North Carolina for the Omohundro Inst. of Early American History & Culture, 2000). Pp. xxvi + 429. $39.95. ISBN 0-8078-2556-5

Inkster, Ian. Scientific Culture and Urbanisation in Industrialising Britain (Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 1997). Pp. xiv + 320. ISBN 0-86078-687-0

Jones, Vivian, ed. Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2000). Pp. 320. $54.95, $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-521-58347-0; 58680-1

Juxon, Thomas. The Journal of Thomas Juxon, 1644-1647, ed. Keith Lindley & David Scott. Camden Fifth Series, Vol. 15 (London: Cambridge Univ. for the Royal Historical Society, 1999). Pp. x + 214. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-65259-6

Kamen, Henry. Early Modern European Society (London & N.Y.: Routledge, 2000). Pp. x + 281. $85, $25.99 paper. ISBN 0-415-15864...

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