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Eighteenth-Century Life 25.1 (2001) 126-130



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Bailey, Colin B. Jean Baptiste Greuze: "The Laundress." Getty Museum Studies on Art (Los Angeles: Getty Museum, 2000). Pp. 92. 37 b&w ills.; 37 color. Paper. ISBN 0-89236-564-1

Baker, Malcolm. Figured in Marble: The Making and Viewing of Eighteenth-Century Sculpture (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2000). Pp. 224. 100 b&w ills. $80. ISBN 0-89236-606-0

Bertelsen, Lance. Henry Fielding at Work: Magistrate, Businessman, Writer (N.Y.: Palgrave, 2000). Pp. 232. $45. ISBN 0-312-23336-1

Bogel, Fredric V. The Difference Satire Makes: Rhetoric and Reading from Jonson to Byron (Ithaca & London: Cornell Univ., 2001). Pp. ix + 262. $35. ISBN 0-8014-3804-7

Bondeson, Jan. The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2001). Pp. xv + 237. $29.95. ISBN 0-8122-3576-2

Burroughs, Catherine, ed. Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, and Society, 1790-1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2000). Pp. xvi + 344. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-66224-9

Choudhury, Mita. Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theatre, 1660-1800: Identity, Performance, Empire (Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ.; London Associated Univ. Presses, 2000). Pp. 217. $39.50. ISBN 0-8387-5448-1

Cleary, Patricia. Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in Eighteenth-Century America (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts, 2000). Pp. xii + 279. $29.95. ISBN 1-55849-263-1

Clery, E. J., and Robert Miles, eds. Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook 1700-1820 (Manchester & N.Y.: Manchester Univ., 2000). Pp. xii + 306. $69.95, $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-7190-4026-4; 4027-2. Distributed in the USA by Palgrave.

Copeland, David A. Debating the Issues in Colonial Newspapers: Primary Documents on Events of the Period (Westport, Conn. & London: Greenwood, 2000). Pp. xvii + 397. $59.95. ISBN 0-313-30982-5

Corbett, Mary Jean. Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790-1870: Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2000). Pp. x + 228. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-66132-3

Cross, Anthony. Peter the Great through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar since 1698 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2000). Pp. xii + 172. $54.95. ISBN 0-521-78298-8

Cross, Máire F., and David Williams, eds. The French Experience from Republic to Monarchy, 1792-1824: New Dawns in Politics, Knowledge and Culture (N.Y.: Palgrave, 2000). Pp. xii + 232. $65. ISBN 0-333-77265-2

Dunn, Walter S., Jr. The New Imperial Economy: The British Army and the American Frontier, 1764-1768 (Westport, Conn. & London: Praeger, 2001). Pp. viii + 208. $62.50. ISBN 0-275-97180-5

Eglin, John. Venice Transfigured: The Myth of Venice in British Culture, 1660-1797 (N.Y.: Palgrave, 2001). Pp. x + 262. $45. ISBN 0-312-23299-3

Evelyn, John. Elysium Britannicum, or The Royal Gardens, ed. John E. Ingram (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2001). Pp. 480. 86 ills. $69.95. ISBN 0-8122-3536-3

Feldman, Paula R., and Daniel Robinson, eds. A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival 1750-1850 (N.Y. & Oxford: Oxford Univ., 1999). Pp. xix + 279. $30. ISBN 0-19-511561-9

Fisk, Deborah Payne, ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2000). Pp. xxvii + 294. $54.95, $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-521-58215-6; 58812-X

Gilmore, John. The Poetics of Empire: A Study of James Grainger's "The Sugar-Cane" (1974) (London & New Brunswick, N.J.: Athlone, 2000). Pp. x + 342. $29.95 paper. ISBN 0-485-12148-4

Gilroy, Amanda, ed. Romantic Geographies: Discourses of Travel 1775-1844 (Manchester & N.Y.: Manchester Univ., 2000). Pp. xii + 260. $69.95, $29.95 paper. ISBN 0-7190-5576-8; 5785-X

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Iphigenia in Tauris (1793), trans. William Taylor. A Woodstock Fasimile (Otley, West Yorkshire & Washington, D.C.: Woodstock, 2000). Pp. 126. $70. ISBN 1-85477-235-X

Hall, Catherine, ed. Cultures of Empire: A Reader: Colonizers in Britain and the Empire in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (N.Y.: Routledge, 2000). Pp. x + 390. $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-415-92907-5

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