Allegory and Enlightenment in the Eighteenth Century

Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-century Britain

In the shadow of the Enlightenment. Occultism and Renaissance science in eighteenth-century America

The Ottoman East and the ‘Moral Geography’ of Europe's Enlightenment

European perceptions of the Islamic Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth century have often been read through the prism of Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws (1748). His ‘moral geography’ depicted a despotic and decayed Islamic Ottoman polity in contrast to the dynamism displayed in European states. Montesquieu’s comparisons and contrasts between the Ottoman East and Europe appear to support Edwa...

Perfecting the world: the life and times of Dr. Thomas Hodgkin 1798–1866

eighteenth-century sexuality is beginning to emerge which takes us beyond the memoirs of Boswell. Historians of eighteenth-century medicine will find the volume especially interesting. Virtually every essay has some bearing on the history of medicine, for medical men occupied a vital position in the sexual marketplace. It was medical men who produced the serious and not-so-serious sexual litera...

Bastard Daughters and Foundling Heroines: Rewriting Illegitimacy for the Eighteenth-Century Stage

ç 2005 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. 0026-8232/2005/10204-0003$10.00 Demographers and historians refer to the eighteenth century as the “century of illegitimacy,”1 pointing out that “in every city in England and the continent for which data are available, the upsurge of illegitimacy commenced around 1750 or before.”2 Whereas scholars such as Edward Shorter, Peter Laslett, L...