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Fact and Fiction : Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Fact and fiction : literary and scientific cultures in Germany and Britain -- thoughts on a contentious relationship / Christine Lehleiter -- Facts are what one makes of them : constructing the Faktum in the Enlightenment and early German Romanticism / Jocelyn Holland -- The competing structures of signification in Samuel Hahnemann's Homeopathy : between 18th-century Semiosis and Romantic Hermeneutics / Alice Kuzniar -- "She comes! …”
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Mind, Body, Motion, Matter : Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives / by McMurran, Mary Helen, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Hogarth's practical aesthetics / Ruth Mack -- Presence of mind : an ecology of perception in eighteenth-century England / Jonathan Kramnick -- Reading Locke after Shaftesbury : feeling our way towards a postsecular genealogy of religious tolerance / David Alvarez -- Rethinking superstition : Pagan ritual in Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages / Mary Helen McMurran -- Defoe on spiritual communication, action at a distance, and the mind in motion / Sara Landreth -- The persistence of Clarissa / Sarah Ellenzweig -- The early-modern embodied mind and the entomological imaginary / Kate E. …”
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Marking Time : Romanticism and Evolution /

Table of Contents: “…Deep time in the South Pacific : scientific voyaging and the ancient/primitive analogy / Noah Heringman ; 5. Malthus our contemporary? : toward a political economy of sex / Maureen N. …”
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Clandestine Philosophy : New Studieson Subversive Manuscrips in Early Modern Europe, 1620-1823 /

Subjects: “…Manuscrits europeens Histoire 19e siecle Congres.…”
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Curious Encounters : Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Adriana Craciun and Mary Terrall -- The British way of tea : tea as an object of knowledge between Britain and China, 1690-1730 / Markman Ellis -- Evliya Çelebi, explorer on horseback : knowledge gathering by a seventeenth-century Ottoman / Donna Landry -- Indigenous voyaging, authorship, and discovery / Michael Bravo -- The world in a nicknackatory : encounters and exchanges in Hans Sloane's collection / Miles Ogborn and Victoria Pickering -- A slaving surgeon's collection : the pursuit of natural history through the British slave trade to Spanish America / Kathleen S. …”
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Artists' Things : Rediscovering Lost Property from Eighteenth-Century France / by Scott, Katie, 1958-, Williams, Hannah, 1980-

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French Women and the Age of Enlightenment /

Table of Contents: “…Diderot and women / Blandine L. McLaughlin -- Rousseau's "Antifeminism" reconsidered / Gita May -- The death of an ideal: female suicides in the eighteenth-century French novel / Ruth P. …”
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The Topography of Modernity : Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy / by Schreiber, Elliott, 1969-

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Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 / by Dominique, Lyndon Janson, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…cried the delighted mulatto, 'are we going to prosecu massa?'" : 'Adeline Mowbray''s distinguished complexion of abolition ; "An unportioned girl of my complexion can ... be a dangerous object" : abolition and the mulatto heiress in England -- Afterword.…”
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Fashioning Celebrity : Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making / by Engel, Laura

Subjects: “…Theâtre Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siecle.…”
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Novel Translations : The European Novel and the German Book, 1680–1730 / by Wiggin, Bethany, 1972-

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Empire and Identity in Guizhou : Local Resistance to Qing Expansion / by Weinstein, Jodi L.

Table of Contents: “…Guizhou and the livelihoods approach to Zhongjia history -- Natural, human, and historical landscapes -- The consolidation of Qing rule -- Livelihood choices in the mid-eighteenth century -- The Nanlong uprising of 1797 -- A legacy of fragile hegemony.…”
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Lake Methodism : Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780–1830 / by Cragwall, Jasper Albert, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…"Lake Methodism" and the lows of high argument -- "Elocution to the mute" : Anglican authority and the cultural revolt of Methodism -- Wordsworth and the ragged legion : poets, priests, and preachers -- Sage or Sibyl? …”
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Little Songs : Women, Silence, and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet / by Billone, Amy Christine, 1972-

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Reading London : Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature / by Bond, Erik

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Interrogating Orientalism : Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices /

Table of Contents: “…Spector -- Teaching the quintessential Turkish tale : Montagu's Turkish embassy letters / Jeanne Dubino -- Representing India in drawing-room and classroom : or, Miss Owenson and "those gay gentlemen, Brahma, Vishnu, and Co." / Michael J. Franklin -- "Unlettered tartars" and "torpid barbarians" : teaching the figure of the Turk in Shelley and De Quincey / Filiz Turhan -- "Boundless thoughts and free souls" : teaching Byron's Sardanapalus, Lara, and The corsair / G. …”
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Bastards and Foundlings : Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England / by Zunshine, Lisa

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Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law / by Harris, Sharon M.

Table of Contents: “…Executing race : infanticide narratives -- Belinda : the politics of petitions -- Posthumous constructions : the writings of Ann Eliza Bleecker -- Margaretta Bleecker Faugeres : a post-revolutionary "freedom of mind" -- Lost boundaries : carnivalizing race and sexuality in Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism -- Lucy Terry : a life of radical resistance -- Appendix : Lucy Terry's obituary.…”
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Gender and Petty Violence in London, 1680-1720 / by Hurl-Eamon, Jennine

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Necessary Luxuries : Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815 / by Erlin, Matt

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Guilty pleasures -- The conceptual landscape of luxury in Germany -- Thinking about luxury editions in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany -- The appetite for reading around 1800 -- The enlightenment novel as artifact: J.H. Campe's Robinson der Jüngere and C.M. Wieland's Der goldne Spiegel -- Karl Philipp Moritz and the system of needs -- Products of the imagination: mining, luxury, and the Romantic artist in Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen -- Symbolic economies in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften -- Conclusion: Useful subjects?…”
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