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Eighteenth-Century Studies 41.1 (2007) 135-137

Books Received*
Bellanca, Mary Ellen. Daybooks of Discovery: Nature Diaries in Britain, 1770–1870 (Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2007). Pp. 296. $59.50 cloth, $22.50 paper. 

Bevilacqua, Mario, Heather Hyde Minor, and Fabio Barry, eds. The Serpent and the Stylus: Essays on G.B. Piranesi (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2006). Pp. 274. $80.00 cloth.

Bowden, Martha F. Yorick's Congregation: The Church of England in the Time of Laurence Sterne (Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 2007). Pp. 291. $57.50 cloth.

Bowie, Karin. Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union, 1699–1707 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2007). Pp. 193. $85.00 cloth. 

Bresadola, Marco, Sandro Cardinali, and Paola Zanardi. La Casa Delle Scienze: Palazzo Paradiso e i luoghi del sapere nella Ferrara del Settecento (Padova: Il Poligrafo, 2006). Pp. 297. €25 paper.

Carroll, Lorrayne. Rhetorical Drag: Gender Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History (Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 2007). Pp. 251. $28.95 cloth. 

Cash, Arthur H. John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2006). Pp. 496. $22.00 paper. 

Chartier, Roger. Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century, tr. Arthur Goldhammer (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). Pp. 208. $55.00 cloth.
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Clingham, Greg, ed. Sustaining Literature: Essays on Literature, History, and Culture, 1500–1800, Commemorating the Life and Work of Simon Varey (Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell Univ. Press, 2007). Pp. 325. $59.50 cloth. 

Corfield, Penelope J. Time and the Shape of History (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2007). Pp. 336. $45.00 cloth. 

Crawford, Katherine. European Sexualities, 1400–1800. New Approaches to European History (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007). Pp. 246. $75.00 cloth, $25.99 paper. 

Ewing, Heather. The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian (New York: Bloomsbury, 2007). Pp. 434. $29.95 cloth.

Fergus, Jan. Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2006). Pp. 314. $110.00 cloth. 

Fogleman, Aaron Spencer. Jesus is Female: Moravians and the Challenge of Radical Religion in Early America (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). Pp. 328. $49.95 cloth.

Frail, Robert J. A Singular Duality: Literary Relations Between France and England in the Eighteenth Century (Brooklyn: AMS Press, 2007). Pp. 163. $74.50 cloth. 

Heywood, Colin. Growing Up in France: From the Ancien Régime to the Third Republic (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007). Pp. 313. $90.00 cloth.

Kierner, Cynthia A., ed. The Contrast: Manners, Morals, and Authority in the Early American Republic (New York: New York Univ. Press, 2007). Pp. 147. $55.00 cloth, $17.00 paper. 

Kilday, Anne-Marie. Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2007). Pp. 183. $85.00 cloth. 

Kneller, Jane. Kant and the Power of Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007). Pp. 171. $85.00 cloth. 

Matus, Jill L., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007). Pp. 246. $85.00 cloth, $29.99 paper.

Mercantini, Jonathan. Who Shall Rule at Home: The Evolution of South Carolina Political Culture, 1748–1776 (Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2007). Pp. 336. $49.95 cloth. 

Moscovici, Claudia. Romanticism and Postromanticism (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007). Pp. 140. $55.00 cloth. 

Noonan, F. Thomas. The Road to Jerusalem: Pilgrimage and Travel in the Age of Discovery (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). Pp. 352. $55.00 cloth.

Rasmussen, Eric and Aaron Santesso, eds. Comparative Excellence: New Essays on Shakespeare and Johnson (Brooklyn: AMS Press, 2007). Pp. 243. $76.50 cloth.

Ravel, Jeffrey S. and Linda Zionkowski, eds. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Volume 36 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2007). Pp. 298. $45.00 
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Rawson, Claude, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007). Pp. 201. $85.00 cloth, $29.99 paper.

Rice, John A. The Temple of Night at Schönau: Architecture, Music, and Theater in a Late Eighteenth-Century Viennese Garden (Philadelphia: American...

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