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Eighteenth-Century Life 26.2 (2002) 101-107



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Anderson, Misty G. Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage (New York: Palgrave, 2002). Pp. 262. $55. ISBN 0-312-23938-6

Austen, Jane. Emma: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism, ed. Alistair M. Duckworth (New York: Palgrave, 2002). Pp. 637. $60. ISBN 0-312-23708-1

Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park, ed. June Sturrock (Peterborough, Ontario & Orchard Park, New York: Broadview, 2001). Pp. 521. $8.95. ISBN 1-55111-098-9

Bates, David W. Enlightenment Aberrations: Error & Revolution in France (Ithaca: Cornell Univ., 2002). Pp. 262. $39.95. ISBN 0-8014-3945-0

Beal, Joan C. English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Spence's 'Grand Repository of the English Language' (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 1999). Pp. 239. $105. ISBN 0-19-823781-2

Beatty, John D., ed. Protestant Women's Narratives of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Dublin: Four Courts, 2001). Pp. 272. $55. ISBN 1-85182-625-4

Blum, Carol. Strength In Numbers: Population, Reproduction, and Power in Eighteenth-Century France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2002). Pp. 261. $44.95. ISBN 0-8018-6810-6

Boyle, Nicholas. Goethe: The Poet and the Age, Volume II, Revolution and Renunciation, 1790-1803 (Oxford: Clarendon, 2000). Pp. 949. $45. ISBN 0-19-815869-6

Broadie, Alexander. The Scottish Enlightenment. The Historical age of the Historical Nation (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2001). Pp. 240. $20. ISBN 1-84158-151-8

Burden, Michael, ed. Henry Purcell's Operas: The Complete Texts (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2000). Pp. 528. $125. ISBN 0-19-816445-9

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Capitein, Jacobus Eliza Johannes. The Agony of Asar: A Thesis on Slavery by the Former Slave, Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein, 1717-1747 (Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2001). Pp. 200. $42.95 / $16.95 paper. ISBN 1-55876-125-X / 1-55876-126-8

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Conway, Alison. Private Interests: Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791 (New York & Toronto: Univ. of Toronto, 2001). Pp. 293. $65. ISBN 0-8020-3526-4

Cossy, Valerie & Deirdre Dawson, eds. Progres et Violence au XVIII Siecle. (Paris: Honore Champion, 2001). Pp. 458. Euro 68.60. ISBN 2-7453-0241-8

Dalberg-Acton, John Emerich Edward. Lectures on the French Revolution (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000). Pp. 342. $12. ISBN 0-86597-281-8

Davies, Adrian. The Quakers in English Society 1655-1725 (Oxford: Clarendon, 2000). Pp. 262. $65. ISBN 0-19-820820-0

Delaforce, Angela. Art and Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Portugal (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2022). Pp. 504. 175 ills., incl. 23 color. $175. ISBN 0-521-57130-8

Delon, Michel, ed. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, Volumes I & II (Chicago & London: Fitzroy Darborn, 2001). Pp. 1481 total. $285. ISBN 1-57958-246-X

Delon, Michel. Le savoir-vivre libertin (Paris: Hachette, 2000). Pp. 250. 120 francs. ISBN unavailable.

Elgin, John. Venice Transfigured: The Myth of Venice in British Culture, 1660-1797 (New York: Palgrave, 2001). Pp. 262. $40. ISBN 0-312-23299-3

Fawcett, Trevor, ed. Bath Entertain'd: Amusements, Recreations & Gambling At The 18th-Century Spa (Bath, UK: Ruton, 1998). Pp. 86. $8.50. ISBN 0-9526326-1-6

Fawcett, Trevor, ed. Voices of Eighteenth-Century Bath: An Anthology (Bath, UK: Ruton, 1995). Pp. 202. $12.75. ISBN 0-9526326-0-8

Fielding, Henry. Joseph Andrews, ed. Paul A. Scanlon (Peterborough, Ontario & Orchard Park, New York: Broadview, 2001). Pp. 530. $9.95. ISBN 1-55111-220-5

Fisher, Kirsten. Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in North Carolina (Ithaca & London: Cornell, 2002). Pp.265. $17.95 paper. ISBN 0-8014-8679-3

Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography (Wiltshire: Palgrave, 1998). Pp. 401. $24. ISBN 0-333-94946-3

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