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Table of Contents

Preface

The Editors
p. xi
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The Clifford Lectures

Edmond Halley: His Life and Scientific Achievements

Norman J. W. Thrower
pp. 3-15
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"Wicked Whiston" and the Scriblerians: Another Ancients-Modern Controversy

G. S. Rousseau
pp. 17-44
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Authorized Prophets: Comets and Astronomers after 1759

Simon Schaffer
pp. 45-74
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Medicine as a Key to Defining Enlightenment Issues: The Case of Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Kathleen Wellman
pp. 75-89
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From Curiosité to Utilité: The Automaton in Eighteenth-Century France

Reed Benhamou
pp. 91-105
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"A Visible History of Art": The Forms and Preoccupations of the Early Museum

Paul Holdengräber
pp. 107-117
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Chinese Export Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century Tidewater Virginia

Julia B. Curtis
pp. 119-144
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Anglo-Irish Attitudes: Changing Perceptions of National Identity Among the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland, ca. 1690–1750

David Hayton
pp. 145-157
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From "the French and Dutch are more sober, frugal and industrious" to the "nobler" position: Attitudes of the Prince of Wales toward a General Naturalization and a Popular Monarchy, 1757–1760

John L. Bullion
pp. 159-172
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Blackstone's Commentaries as Constitutive Rhetoric

Jeffrey Smitten
pp. 173-189
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Women, Publishers, and Money, 1790–1820

Jan Fergus, Janice Farrar Thaddeus
pp. 191-207
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The Ideological Implications of Onomatopoeia in the Eighteenth Century

Roy Harris
pp. 209-216
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Hazlitt, the Novel, and the French Revolution

Robert W. Uphaus
pp. 217-227
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Cowper, Hayley, and Samuel Johnson's "Republican" Milton: For Louis A. Landa

James King
pp. 229-238
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Following the Stage-Itinerant: Perception, Doubt, and Death in Swift's Tale of a Tub

Veronica Kelly
pp. 239-258
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Mourning as Reception in Rousseau's Julie

Patrick Coleman
pp. 259-270
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Redressing Passion: Sophie d'Houdetot and the Origins of Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse

Susan Klem Jackson
pp. 271-287
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The Meeting Place of Autobiography and Censorship: Rousseau's Lettres à Malesherbes

E. S. Burt
pp. 289-308
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Rousseau and the Democratization of Language in the French Revolution

Carol Blum
pp. 309-317
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Jefferson's Music Library, His Catalogue of 1783, and A Revision of Lowens's Haydn in America

Ronald R. Kidd
pp. 319-334
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The Enlightenment: What and Who?

Lester G. Crocker
pp. 335-347
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Contributors

pp. 349-350
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Index

pp. 359-371
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