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SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 40.3 (2000) 594-601



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The Age of Johnson 10. Ed. Paul J. Korshin. New York: AMS Press, 1999. Pp. xiv + 527. $97.50. ISBN 0-404-62760-9.

Aravamudan, Srinivas. Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804. Durham and London: Duke Univ. Press, 1999. Pp. x + 424. $59.95 cloth. ISBN
0-8223-2283-8. $20.95 paper. ISBN 0-8223-2315-x.

Baines, Paul. The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Brookfield VT: Ashgate Publishing, 1999. Pp. viii + 195. $83.95. ISBN 1-84014-601-X.

Barney, Richard A. Plots of Enlightenment: Education and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 402. $49.50. ISBN 0-8047-2978-6.

Beebee, Thomas O. Epistolary Fiction in Europe, 1500-1850. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999. Pp. x + 277. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-62275-1.

Behn, Aphra. Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave. Ed. Catherine Gallagher with Simon Stern. Bedford Cultural Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. xviii + 473. $39.95. ISBN 0-312-21065-5.

Behn, Aphra. The Rover: Or, the Banished Cavaliers. Ed. Anne Russell. 2d edn. Peterborough ON and Orchard Park NY: Broadview Press, 1999. Pp. 220. $8.95 paper. ISBN 1-55111-214-0.

Boswell, James. "Life of Johnson": An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes. Vol. 2: 1766-1776. Ed. Bruce Redford with Elizabeth Goldring. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press; New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 1998. Pp. xviii + 303. $70.00. ISBN 0-300-07969-9.

Bowerbank, Sylvia, and Sara Mendelson, eds. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Peterborough ON and Orchard Park NY: Broadview Press, 2000. Pp. 332. $12.95 paper. ISBN 1-55111-173-X.

Brown, Marshall, ed. Eighteenth-Century Literary History. An MLQ Reader. Durham and London: Duke Univ. Press, 1999. Pp. 279. $49.99 cloth. ISBN
0-8223-2135-1. $17.95 paper. ISBN 0-8223-2267-6.

Bulletin de la Societe D'etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles. n.s. 47 (Novembre 1998). Ed. Guyonne Leduc. Lilles: Presses de l'Universite Charles de Gaulle Lille III. ISSN 0291-3798.

Bulletin de la Societe D'etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles. n.s. 48 (Juin 1999). Ed. Guyonne Leduc. Lilles: Presses de l'Universite Charles de Gaulle Lille III. ISSN 0291-3798.

Bulletin de la Societe D'etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles. n.s. 49 (Novembre 1999). Ed. Guyonne Leduc. Lilles: Presses de l'Universite Charles de Gaulle Lille III. ISSN 0291-3798.

Canfield, J. Douglas. Tricksters and Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1997. Pp. xii + 315. $44.95. ISBN
0-8131-2012-8.

Case, Alison A. Plotting Women: Gender and Narration in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel. Charlottesville and London: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1999. Pp. x + 223. $37.50. ISBN 0-8139-1895-2.

Cavendish, Margaret. "The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays. Ed. Anne Shaver. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 280. $49.95 cloth. ISBN 0-8018-6099-7. $15.95 paper. ISBN 0-8018-6100-4.

Chard, Chloe. Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour: Travel Writing and Imaginative Geography, 1600-1830. Manchester and New York: Manchester Univ. Press, 1999. Pp. ix + 278. $69.95 cloth. ISBN 0-7190-4804-4. $29.95 paper. ISBN 0-7190-4805-2.

Chernaik, Warren, and Martin Dzelzainis, eds. Marvell and Liberty. New York: St. Martin's Press; Hampshire UK: Macmillan Press, 1999. Pp. xiii + 365. $59.99. US ISBN 0-312-22171-1; UK ISBN 0-333-72585-9.

Clery, E. J. The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999. $21.95 paper. ISBN 0-521-66458-6.

Davis, Leith. Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707-1830. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1998. Pp. viii + 219. $39.50. ISBN 0-8047-3269-8.

Davys, Mary. The Reform'd Coquet: Or, Memoirs of Amoranda, Familiar Letters...

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