By studying the correspondences of four prominent women during their middle and late years, Stewart explores the relation of female aging to respectability, sexuality and power. The focus lies in their physical, emotional and professional well-being during a time when all the available dignity of age seemed to belong to men.

Tony Halliday explores the connections between the representation of the body in art and 18th-century political and medical discourses.

This work highlights the key exchange routes and channels of communication between the two cultures of France and Britain in the 18th century.

Edition critique par Michel Mervaud, accompagnée d’une étude de Madeleine Pinault Sørensen sur les superbes planches de l’ouvrage d’après les dessins de Le Prince. Le récit de Chappe, astronome et académicien, parut en 1768. Sévère à l’égard de la Russie et des Russes, il suscita une réfutation attribuée à Catherine II. Cette édition intéressera les dix-huitièmistes, les historiens, les slavistes, et les comparatistes. Michel Mervaud est ancien élève de l’ENS de Saint-Cloud, agrégé de russe, et professeur honoraire à l’université de Rouen. Son ouvrage le...

This is an exploration of the political ideas and pre-Greek revolutionary social and cultural reforms instigated by the Greek englightenment figure, Adamantios Korais.

Focusing on 18th century Enlightenment writing, contributors explore the social, religious, artistic, political and scientific dimensions of the grey area that binds so-called 'illuminist' and 'rational' forms of thinking - the super-enlightenment.

This is an analysis of the 'private sphere' outside the home and family in the 18th century, with case studies from Russia, France, Italy and England.

A complete edition of Gibbon's 'Essai', with original footnotes, variants and unpublished chapter, a contextual introduction and a commentary on each chapter.

This title looks at the influence of John Locke's philosophy of political liberty on the Enlightenment.

Fifty years on from Ian Watt’s pioneering study, The Rise of the novel, Jenny Mander brings together the work of bibliographers, literary scholars and socio-cultural historians to present a new European perspective on the development of the genre. Remapping the rise of the European novel investigates how prose fiction between 1500 and 1800 was simultaneously shaped by the development of the nation-state and by multiple crossings of geographical, cultural and linguistic boundaries. Drawing on evidence from France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Russia, Greece, as well as England, authors argue...