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  • Books Received*

Books Received from September through December 2008

Beiler, Rosalind. Immigrant and Entrepreneur: The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650-1750 (University Park: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008). Pp. 224. $55 cloth.
Cottegnies, Line and Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille, Tony Gheeraert, Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise, Gisèle Venet, eds. Les Voix de Dieu: Littérature et prophétie en Angleterre et en France à l'âge baroque (Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2008). Pp. 315. 23€ paper.
Elmer, Jonathan. On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sovereignty in the New World (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008). Pp. 260. $75 cloth, $24 paper.
Ferraro, Joanne M. Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557-1789 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). Pp. 248. $45 cloth.
Finseth, Ian Frederick. Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770-1860 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009). Pp. 348. $39.95 cloth.
Fronius, Helen and Anna Linton. Women and Death: Representations of Female Victims and Perpetrators in German Culture 1500-2000 (Rochester: Camden House, 2008). Pp. 267. $75 cloth.
Gray, Richard T. Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008). Pp. 464. $70 cloth, $30 paper. [End Page 477]
Guichard, Charlotte. Les Amateurs D'Art à Paris au XVIIIe Siècle (Seysell: Éditions Champ Vallon, 2008). Pp. 383. 29€ paper.
Hudson, Nicholas and Aaron Santesso, eds. Swift's Travels: Eighteenth-Century Satire and its Legacy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Pp. 303. $99 cloth.
Jainchill, Andrew. Reimagining Politics after the Terror (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008). Pp. 232. $45 cloth.
King, Shelley and Yaël Schlick, eds. Refiguring the Coquette: Essays on Coquetry (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2008). Pp. 228. $52.50 cloth.
Munro, George E. The Most Intentional City: St. Petersburg in the Reign of Catherine the Great (Madison: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008). Pp. 372. $69.50 cloth.
Shuck-Hall, Sheri Marie. Journey to the West: The Alabama and Coushatta Indians (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2008). Pp. 304. $34.95 cloth.
Sonenscher, Michael. Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008). Pp. 508. $45 cloth.
Syrett, David. Shipping and Military Power in the Seven Years War: The Sails of Victory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008). Pp. 160. $59.95 cloth.
Valone, David A. and Jill Marie Bradbury, eds. Anglo-Irish Identities, 1571-1845 (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2008). Pp. 289. $56 cloth.
Wildermuth, Mark E. Print, Chaos, and Complexity: Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Media Culture (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008). Pp. 197. $48.50 cloth.
Woodfield, Ian. Mozart's Così fan tutte: A Compositional History (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2008). Pp. 242. $95 cloth. [End Page 478]

Footnotes

* Books for review may be sent to Michael Ziser, Reviews Editor, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Dept. of English, UC Davis, One Shields Ave., University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616.

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