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SEL: Studies in English Literature 39.3 (1999) 636-644



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Amelang, James S. The Flight of Icarus: Artisan Autobiography in Early Modern Europe. Stanford CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1998. Pp. ix + 497. $60.00. ISBN 0-8047-3340-6.

Armstrong, Isobel, and Virginia Blain, eds. Women's Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xvi + 226. $55.00. ISBN 0-312-21282-8.

Barchas, Janine, ed. The Annotations of Lady Bradshaigh's Copy of "Clarissa." With the editorial collaboration of Gordon D. Fulton. English Literary Studies Monograph 74. Victoria: Univ. of Victoria Press, 1998. Pp. 144. $14.50 paper. ISBN 0-920604-59-5.

Baruth, Phillip E., ed. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma. Urbana and Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1998. Pp. viii + 250. $47.50 cloth. ISBN 0-252-02415-X. $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-252-06723-1.

Beasley, Jerry C. Tobias Smollett: Novelist. Athens and London: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1998. Pp. xiii + 259. $45.00. ISBN 0-8203-1971-6.

Bellamy, Liz. Commerce, Morality, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998. Pp. vii + 223. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-62224-7.

Bolingbroke, Henry St. John. Bolingbroke: Political Writings. Ed. David Armitage. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. xliv + 305. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-44393-8.

Borlase, Lady. Lady Borlase's Receiptes Book. Ed. David E. Schoonover, with the assistance of Jessica Renaud. Iowa Szathmáry Culinary Arts. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press, 1998. Pp. viii + 172. $32.95. ISBN 0-87745-636-4.

Boswell, James. The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb, Overseers of Auchinleck Estate. Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, Correspondence 8. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press; New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 1998. Pp. lvi + 276. $70.00. Edinburgh ISBN 0-7486-0624-6. Yale ISBN 0-300-07681-9.

Burney, Frances. Evelina, or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World. Ed. Stewart J. Cook. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998. Pp. x + 490. $9.95. ISBN 0-393-97158-9.

Carne-Ross, D. S. and Kenneth Haynes, eds. Horace in English. New York: Penguin Classics, 1998. Pp. xvi + 560. $14.95 paper. ISBN 0-14-042387-7.

Chung, Ewha. Samuel Richardson's New Nation: Paragons of the Domestic Sphere and "Native" Virtue. American University Studies 4: English Language and Literature 187. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. Pp. vii + 162. $36.95. ISBN 0-8204-3362-4.

Clingham, Greg, ed. Making History: Textuality and the Forms of Eighteenth-Century Culture. Bucknell Review 42, 1. Lewisburg PA: Bucknell Univ. Press; London: Associated Univ. Presses, 1998. Pp. 157. $24.00. ISBN 0-8387-5384-1.

Clingham, Greg, ed. Questioning History: The Postmodern Turn to the Eighteenth Century. Bucknell Review 41, 2. Lewisburg PA: Bucknell Univ. Press; London: Associated Univ. Presses, 1998. Pp. 196. $24.00. ISBN 0-8387-5383-3.

Cole, Richard C., Peter S. Baker, Rachel McClellan, and James C. Caudel, eds. The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769. Vol. 2: 1768-1769. Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1997. Pp. xxii + 330. $70.00. ISBN 0-300-07403-4.

Condren, Conal. Satire, Lies, and Politics: The Case of Dr. Arbuthnot. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xviii + 192. $59.95. ISBN 0-312-17515-9.

Cope, Kevin L., ed. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 4. New York: AMS Press, 1999. Pp. xix + 445. $82.50. ISBN 0-404-64404-X.

Curley, Thomas M. Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1998. Pp. xxii + 698. $87.50. ISBN 0-299-15150-6.

Davie, Donald, ed. The Psalms in English. New York: Penguin Classics, 1998. Pp. lviii + 385. $13.95 paper. ISBN 0-14-044618-4.

DeMaria, Robert Jr., ed. British Literature, 1640-1789: A Critical Reader. Oxford and Malden MA...

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