The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought

Allegory and Enlightenment in the Eighteenth Century

In a reading of William Blake's frontispiece to “There is no Natural Religion” that draws largely on the history of the allegorical mode, I offer a narrative that explores the creative ways in which Blake illuminated his ideas about the value of Enlightenment thought.

Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-century Britain

The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century

This fine volume of essays on the nobility in the later eighteenth century is a most welcome addition to the existing literature. It comprises eleven essays by American historians whose research engages with the concept of nobility. The collection issues from a conference in 2004 and reflects the cultural turn in historiography that has such sway, particularly in America. There is a stimulating...

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

"Vital Forces and Vital Laws in Eighteenth-Century French Physiology"