No. 79
June-July, 2000


 Search Selected Readings  
ACADEMIA

Mattone, A., Sanna, P.  "La 'rivoluzione delle idee': la riforma delle due università sarde e al circolazione della cultura europea (1764-1790)." Rivista Storica Italiana, 110, 3 (1998): 834-942.

Spitz, Jean-Fabien. «Les trois misères de l'universitaire ordinaire». le Débat, 108 (janvier-février 2000): 4-17.

AFRICA & THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

* Coquery-Vidrovitch, Catherine. Histoire des femmes d'Afrique noire du XIXe au XXe siècle. Paris: Desjonquères, 1999 (rééd.). 400 pp. ISBN: 2-90422-780-6.

* De Gruchy, John, ed. The London Missionary Society in Southern Africa, 1799-1999. Ohio University Press, November 2000.  240pp. ISBN 0-8214-1349-X (paper)

* Hlatshwayo, Simphiwe A.  Education and Independence: Education in South Africa, 1658-1988. Greenwood, 2000. 144pp. ISBN 0-313-30056-9

* Wood, Marcus. Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America, 1780-1865.  May 2000. 400pp. ISBN 0-415-92697-1

[See title by Sebastiani listed under Encyclopædia Britannica]

AUSTRIA - LITERATURE

[see also title by Catling listed under Germany - Literature]

BIBLIOGRAPHY, BIBLIOMANIA, BIBLIOPHILY,  EDITORIAL METHODOLOGY, LIBRARIES,
  HISTORY OF THE BOOK, AUTHORSHIP,
 PUBLISHING, & READING,
 TEXTUAL CRITICISM,
& RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
 IN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

* Alston, R. C.  Order and Connexion: Studies in Bibliography and Book History: Selected Papers from the Munby Seminar, Cambridge, July 1994. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997. xxii, 202 pp., ill.  ISBN 0859915069 

* Amory, Hugh, & David D. Hall (eds.). A History of the Book in America. Vol. I: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World.  Cambridge University Press & the  American Antiquarian Society, 1999.  xxiv, 638 pp., ill. ISBN 0-521-48256-9

Arbour, Keith. "Additions and Emendations to Pre-1801 Entries in Thomas J. Holme's Bibliographies of the Mathers." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 94 (2000): 81-130.

Ashton, Jean. "The Advent of Printing in New York: William Bradford and the Slow Growth of a Local Press." Biblion, 7, no. 1 (fall 1998), 20-31, ill.

Avery, Gillian. "Origins and English Predecessors of the New England Primer." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 108 (1998): 33-61.

* Baines, Paul. The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Ashgate, 1999.  viii, 195 pp., ill.  ISBN 1-8401-4601-X 

* Balston, John. The Whatmans and Wove Paper, Its Invention, and Development in the West.  West Farleigh, Kent, U.K.: J. N. Balston, 1998. xliv, 333 pp., ill.

Barber, Giles. "The Taylor Institution Library: Unfamiliar Libraries XXIX." The Book Collector, 47 (1998), 319-41, ill.

* Barker, Nicolas (comp.). Treasures from the Libraries of National Trust Country Houses. New York: Royal Oak Foundation & the Grolier Club, 1999.  181 pp., ill.

Barnard, John. "The Survival and Loss Rates of Psalms, ABCs, Psalters, and Primers from the Stationers Stock, 1660-1700." The Library, 6th ser., 21 (1999): 148-50.

Barnard, John. "The Stationers' Stock 1663/4 to 1705/6: Psalms, Psalters, Primers, and ABCs." The Library, 6th ser., 21 (1999): 369-75.

Barnard, Toby, Dáibhí O Cróinín, & Katharine Simms, eds. "A Miracle of Learning: Studies in Manuscripts and Irish Learning: Essays in Honour of William O'Sullivan.  Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1998. xiv , 303 pp., ill.

Barnhill, Georgia Brady.  "The Catalogue of American Engravings: A Manual for Users," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 108 (1998): 113-247.

* Benichou, Paul. The Consecration of the Writer, 1750-1830. Tr. by Mark K. Jensen. University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Pp. xv + 454; index.

Bennett, Kate. "John Aubrey, Joseph Barnes's Print-Shop and a Sham Newsletter." The Library, 6th ser., 21 (1999): 50-58.

* Bickerton, David, and Judith Proud (eds.). The Transmission of Culture in Western Europe, 1750-1850: Papers Celebrating the Bicentenary of the Foundation of the Bibliothèque britannique (1796-1815) in Geneva. Bern, New York, and Paris: Peter Lang, 1999. Pp. 264; 3 illustrations. [Includes Katherine Astbury's "Recommended Reading for Women in German, France, and England 1782-84"; Raymond Birn's "Transmitting Rousseau: Print and Fabrication of a Cultural Icon"; Cyprian Blamires's "The Bibliothèque britannique and the Birth of Utilitarianism"; Judith K. Proud's "Fair Play or Fair Game? Copyright and the Francophone Literary Press in the Eighteenth Century"; Ann Thomson's "The Diffusion of English Free Thought in France in the Early Eighteenth Century"; Barbara Traxler-Brown's "'Charity sermons and very, very white muslin': The Diffusion of Claude-Louis Berthollet's Description du blanchment (Paris 1789) in late Eighteenth-Century Ireland"; and Jacques Wagner's "Le Journal encyclopédique, une bibliothèque britannique?"]

Black, Fiona A. "'Advent'rous merchants and Atlantic Waves': A Preliminary Study of the Scottish Contribution to Book Availability in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1752-1810," in Michael Vance & Marjorie Harper (ed.), Myth, Migration, and Making of Memory: Scotia and Nova Scotia c. 1700-1990  (Toronto: Fernwood Books, 1999). 

Black, Fiona A. "Beyond Boundaries: Book Availability in the Canadian Northwest," in Bill Bell, Jonquil Bevan, and Philip Bennett (eds.), Across Boundaries: The Book in Commerce and Culture (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; Winchester, U.K.: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 2000).

Black, Fiona A. "Book Availability in Canada, 1752 to 1820, and the Scottish Contribution." Ph.D. Diss. Loughborough University [U.K.], [February] 1999.

* Blasselle, Bru.   Histoire du livre: A pleines pages. Vol. 1 [antiquity to the eighteenth century]. Paris: Gallimard, 1997. 160 pp.

Bloomfield, B. C. (with the assistance of Karen Potts). A Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. 2nd ed. London: Library Association (distributed in the U.S.A. by Lanham, MD: Bernan Essential Reference Publications): 1997. Pp. xxiii + 740; index.

* Bowman, John H. Greek Printing Types in Britain from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century. Thessaloniki: Typophilia, 1998. 342 pp., ill.

Brink, Ellen (comp.). "Index of Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography: 1977-1995." Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography, 10, 4 (1999): 197-432.

* Brown, Michelle P. The British Library Guide to Writing and Scripts. London: British Library; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. 96 pp., ill. 

Bruyère, Paul. "Recherche pour une typologie des éphémères liégeois 1550-1800." Le livre & l'estampe, 45, 151 (1999): 105-13.

Buchanan-Brown, John. "Bibliography in the Seventeenth Century." Quadrat, 7 (June 1998): 3-8.

* Burke, Mary, et al. (ed.). Women, Writing, and the Reproduction of Culture in Tudor and Stuart Britain.  Syracuse University Press, 1999.

* Carter, John. ABC for Book Collectors. 7th ed. Introduced by and corrected and expanded by Nicolas Barker. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1995.  224 pp.

* Cavallo, Guglielmo, and Roger Chartier (eds.). A History of Reading in the West. University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

* Cerquiglini, Bernard. In Praise of the Variant: A Critical History of Philology. Tr. Betsy Wing.  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xv, 93 pp.

Champion, J.A.I.  "'Manuscripts of Mine Abroad': John Toland and the Circulation of Ideas, c. 1700-1722."  Eighteenth-Century Ireland - Iris an dá chultúr, 14 (1999): 9-36 [clandestine ms. circulation as scribal publication; construction of community of readers by transmission of Toland mss.; Robert Viscount Molesworth].

Charteris, Richard. "Charles Barlow: Portrait of a Bibliophile, XXXIV." The Book Collector, 47 (1998), 352-62.

Culot, Paul. "La bibliophilie en Champagne." Le livre & l'estampe, 45, 152 (1999): 125-36.

* The Culture of the Book: Essays from Two Hemispheres in Honour of Wallace Kirsop. Ed. by Members of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, for the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1999.  504 pp., ill.

* Daly, Peter M. Literature in the Light of the Emblem: Structual Parallels between the Emblem and Literature in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. 2nd ed. University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Daniel, Emily L. "English Baroque Libraries." Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1998): 116-40; 5 plates.

* De Montluzin, Emily Lorraine. Attributions of Authorship in the 'Gentleman's Magazine': An Electronic Version of James M. Kuist's "The Nichols File of the 'Gentleman's Magazine.'"  Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1999. [Searchable by key-words on the Society's website at: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva 

de Quehen, Hugh. "Subscribers to the Cambridge University Press." Notes and Queries, n.s. 46, (1999): 344-45.

* Di Giuro, Vittorio, ed. Manuale enciclopedico della bibliofilia. Milan: Sylvestre Bonnard, 1997. x, 626 pp., ill. 

Dixon, Diana. "Annual Review of Work on Newspaper and Periodical History, 1996-1998." Media History, 5, 2 (December 1999): 201-21.

* Dolan, Frances E. Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture. Cornell University Press, 1999.

* Dowding, Geoffrey. An Introduction to the History of Printing Types. 2nd ed. Intro. by Alan Bartram. London: British Library; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1998. xxiv, 277 pp., ill.

Duranton, Henri, & Pierre Rétat (édit.). Gazettes et information politique sous l'Ancien Régime.  Saint-Etienne: Publications de l'Universite de Saint-Etienne, 1999. 443 pp.  (Proceedings of an International Congress at Lyon, June 1997).  Titles include: Keith M. Baker, Introduction; Stephane Haffemayer, "La géographie de l'information dans la Gazette de Renaudot de 1647 à 1663"; Marina Formica, "L'information politique à Rome au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècles"; Sergei Korotkov, "Les journaux de langue française source d'information des Nouvelles de Saint-Petersbourg"; Giuseppe Ricuperati, "La circulation des nouvelles politiques à Turin et dans l'état de Savoie"; Raffaella Buoso, "La Gazette de Nice et quatre gazettes pimontaises conserves à Turin"; J. Luis Lisboa, "Le statut du gazetier dans le Portugal de la première moitie du XVIIIe siècle"; Eric Briggs, "La famille Tronchin et Jean Tronchin du Breuil"; Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck, "L'information politique dans les journaux de Rousset de Missy"; Madeleine Fabre, "L'indépendance américaine: Des gazettes américaines aux Affiches de l'Angleterre et de l'Amérique"; Mario Infelise, "Le march des informations à Venise au XVIIe siècle"; Brendan Dooley, "Les réseaux d'informations à Rome au XVIIe siècle"; Chloe Barril, "Situation politique des lardons hollandais"; Olivier Ferret, "Pamphlet et information politique"; Hans Bots, "Quelques gazettes de Hollande en langue française et le Mercure historique et politique: Une analyse comparative"; Eric Francalanza, "Médicine et politique dans les journaux d'Arnaud et Suard (1760-66)"; Gilles Feyel, "Le Journal historique et politique de Geneve dans les annes 1770"; Paul Benhamou, "Un collectionneur de Gazettes en Amérique"; Otto S. Lankhorst "Les premiers Courants hollandais et les autorités politiques"; Jan de Vet's "Une révolution contrarie: Les Provinces unies dans quelques gazettes et mercures français de 1748"; Ute Van Runset, "La politique de Fredric II et les gazettes: Entre le Courrier du Bas-Rhin et la Gazette de Cologne"; Mathias Beermann, "Presse et propagande: Les projets secrets du gouvernement prussien"; François Weil, "L'état civil des protestants en 1778"; Veronique Sarrazin, "Lectures politiques des almanachs au XVIIIe siècle"; Pierre Rétat, "Politique et administration"; Jack Censer, La presse et la Révolution française"; Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, "Le tremblement de terre de Lisbonne dans les périodiques français et allemands du XVIIIe siècle"; Annie Rivara, "L'information vide: Le discours des gazetiers sur le premier partage de la Pologne"; Yannick Sit, "Politique et poétique: Le cas de la gazette"; Christophe Cave, "La gazette, le prince et son peuple: Écrire le disordre"; Jean Sgard, "L'anecdote mouvante en 1775"; Chontal Thomas, "Présentation et qualification des acteurs de la gazette"; and Anne-Marie Mercier-Faivre, "Les ambassadeurs: Gazette et diplomatie: L'exemple russo-ottoman"]

* Eddy, Donald D. A Bibliography of Richard Hurd. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1999. xlii, 312 pp.

English, Jim. "John Oswald of London & the Provincial Book Trade." Quadrat, 9 (June 1999): 13-15 [bookseller active 1712-1764 "with addresses in White's Alley, off Chancery Lane, and Rose & Crown in the Poultry"].

Evans, R. Paul. "Richard Bull and Thomas Pennant: Virtuosi in the Art of Grangerisation or Extra-Illustration." Cylchgrawn . . . National Library of Wales Journal, 30, 3 (Summer 1998): 269-94.

* Ezell, Margaret J. M.  Social Authority and the Advent of Print. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.  x, 182 pp.  [distribution of poetry in England through MSS and printed texts, touching on Jane Barker, Anne Bradstreet, Margaret Cavendish, John Dryden, and Katherine Philips]

Ferguson, Stephen. "History of the Book: Field Notes of a Curator." Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship, 14 (1999): 33-49.

* Feyel, Gilles. L'Announce et la nouvelle: La presse d'information en France sous l'ancien régime (1630-1788). Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1999.

Fiering, Norman. "'A Thick Web of Sources': The John Carter Brown Library." Uncommon Sense: A Newsletter Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 109 (Summer-Fall 1999): 13 ff.

* Fleming, Patricia, & Sandra Alston. Early Canadian Printing: A Supplement to Marie Tremaine's A Bibliography of Canadian Imprints, 1751-1800. University of Toronto Press, 1999. xxiv, 629 pp.

* Forster, Antonia. Index to Book Reviews in England, 1775-1800. London: British Library, 1997. lii, 490 pp.

* Fox, Peter (ed.). Cambridge University Library: The Great Collections. Cambridge University Press, 1998.  231 pp., ill.

* Funcke, Johann Michael. Kurtze Anleitung von Form und Stahlschneiden Erfurt 1740. Facsimile reprint edited by Martin Boghardt, Frans A. Janssen, and Walter Wilkes. Introduction in German and English by James Mosley. Darmstadt: Lehrdruckerei der Technischen Universität, 1998. 81, 108 pp., ill.

Gabler, Hans Walter, George Bornstein, & Gillian Borland Pierce (eds.). Contemporary German Editorial Theory.  University of Michigan Press, 1995. xii, 278 pp.

* Garraty, John A., & Mark C. Carnes (eds.). American National Biography.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 24 vols.  22,968 pp.

* Gascoigne, Bamber. Milestones in Colour Printing 1457-1859: With a Bibliography of Nelson Prints. Cambridge University Press (Sandars Lectures in Bibliography), 1997.  x, 123 pp., ill.

* Gaudriault, Raymond. Filigranes et autres Caractéristiques des Papiers Fabriqués en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles. Paris: Telford & CNRS Éditions, 1995.  472 pp., ill.

George, David. "Eighteenth-Century Editors, Critics, and Performers of Coriolanus." Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography, n.s. 10 (1999): 63-71.1

* Gould, Warwick, & Thomas F. Staley (eds.). Writing the Lives of Writers. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's, 1998. xvi, 328 pp.

Gray, Michael, & Lorelei Williams. "The Merchant's House, Marlborough: The Printing Years." Quadrat, 9 (June 1999): 8-12 [printers John Smith & Edward Harold in the early 1770s published the Marlborough Journal from 132-133 High Street. After 1774, when the paper ceased publication, Harold remained an active printer at the High Street address through 1823].

Green, James. "Early American Print Culture at the Library Company of Philadelphia." Uncommon Sense: A Newsletter Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. No. 108 (Winter-Spring 1999): 11, 13, 15, 17.

* Greenfield, Jane. ABC of Bookbinding: A Unique Glossary with over 700 Illustrations for Collectors and Librarians. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll; New York: Lyons, 1998. xi, 183 pp., ill., with glossaries of bookbinders' terms; of bookbinding's structural evolution; and of binders, designers, and styles of decoration.

* Greetham, D. C. Theories of the Text. Oxford: Clarendon, 1999.  xii. 580 pp., ill.

* Grésillon, Almuth. Literarische Handschriften: Einführung in die "Critique génétique."  Ed. Winfried Woesler. Bern: P. Lang (Arbeiten zur Editionswissenschaft, 4), 1999. 311 pp., ill.

Groom, Nick. "Letters from Thomas Percy to Thomas Ashe: Notes on Wynkyn de Worde and the Rowley Controversy." Notes and Queries, n.s. 46 (1999): 360-64.

* Gutjahr, Paul. An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880. Stanford University Press, 1999. xv, 256 pp., ill. maps.

Hammond, Brean S. Professional Imaginative Writing in England, 1670-1740: "Hackney for Bread." Oxford: Clarendon, 1997.  viii, 348 pp.

Hanks, Peter. "Joshua Drewry of Stafford." Quadrat. No. 7 (June 1998): 14-17 [bookseller & printer active in Stafford 1792-1821].

Harmon, Robert B. Elements of Bibliography: A Guide to Information Sources and Practical Applications. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 295; illustrations.

* Harris, Philip R. A History of the British Museum Library (1753-1973). London: British Library, 1998.  xx, 833 pp., ill.

* Helferty, Seamus, & Raymond Refaussé. eds. Directory of Irish Archives. Dublin: Fourt Courts Press, 1999. 160 pp.

* Hernandez, Vicente S. History of Books and Libraries in the Philippines, 1521-1900. Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 1996. xvi, 248.

* Herrmann, Frank. English as Collectors. Rev. ed. London: John Murray Ltd.; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1999. xlviii, 461 pp., ill.

Hill, Jonathan E. "From Provisional to Permanent: Books in Boards, 1790-1840." The Library, 6th ser., 21 (1999): 247-73, ill.

"The History of Printing Types."  The Book Collector, 48 (1999), 493-510. [Review essay, including a discussion of Fiona G. E. Ross's The Printed Bengali Character and Its Evolution (1999).]

Holden, Carole. "Early Printing from Africa in the British Library." British Library Journal, 23, no. 1 (Spring 1997), 1-11. [1,540 18th-c editions printed in Mauritius, & 110 printed in Madagascar].

* Howard-Hill, T. H., ed. British Book Trade Dissertations to 1980: A Bibliography. Signal Mountain, TN: Summertown, 1998. xx, 315 pp.

Howard-Hill, T. H. "Fredson Bowers Re-Viewed." The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 93 (1999): 255-68.

* Hunt, Arnold, Giles Mandelbrote, and Alison Shell (eds.). The Book Trade and Its Customers, 1450-1900: Historical Essays for Robin Myers. Introduction by D. F. McKenzie. Winchester, Hampshire, U.K.: St. Paul's Bibliographies; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1997.

Isaac, Peter. "Thomas Slack, 1723?-1784." Quadrat. No. 7 (June 1998): 18-20 [printer, publisher, & author in Newcastle- upon-Tyne, Slack published and co-edited works of his wife Anne Fisher Slack (1719-1778) after they married 15 December 1751].

* Isaac, Peter, and Barry McKay (eds.). The Human Face of the Book Trade.  Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll, 1999.  (Papers of the 16th Annual Seminar on the History of the Book, held 21-23 July 1998, at Napier University).

* Isaac, Peter [C. G.], and Barry McKay (eds.). Images and Texts: Their Production and Distribution in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Winchester, U.K.: St. Paul's Bibliographies; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll, 1997. xiv, 188 pp., ill.

* Jagodzinski, Cecile M. Privacy and Print: Reading and Writing in Seventeenth-Century England.  University Press of Virginia, 1999. 256 pp.

Jackson, Leon. "Jedidiah Morse and the Transformation of Print Culture in New England, 1784-1826." Early American Literature, 34 (1999): 2-31.

* Jammes, André (édit.). Les Didot: Trois siècles de typographie et de bibliophilie, 1698-1998. Paris: Agence culturelle de Paris, 1998.

* Johns, Adrian. Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. University of Chicago Press, 1998. xxi, 753 pp.

Jones, Alun R. "Mock-Learned Commentaries by Lewis Morris." Cylchgrawn . . . National Library of Wales Journal, 30, 4 (Winter 1998): 405-17.

* Jones, Philip Henry, & Eiluned Rees (eds.). A Nation and Its Books: A History of the Book in Wales. Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, in association with the Aberystwyth Centre for the Book, 1998. xvi, 432 pp., ill.

Kiessling, Nicolas K. "Anthony Wood, Thomas Gore, and the Use of Manuscript Material." The Library, 6th ser., 21 (1999): 108-23; illustrations; bibliography of heraldic books in and not in Wood's library].

* Kinane, Vincent, and Anne Walsh (eds.). A History of Trinity College Library, Dublin. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999. 160 pp.

Kliman, Bernice W. "Considering the Terminology of the New Bibliography and After." Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography, n.s. 10 (1999), 148-65.

Knott, David. "The Boston Agricultural Club: An Eighteenth-Century Vocational Book Club." The Library, 6th ser., 20 (1998): 62-67.

Knott, David. "John Brotherton--Bookbinder." Printing History Society Bulletin, 45 (Summer 1998): 15, ill. [From a check of the ESTC, Knott expands Brotherton's binding activities in London from 1717 to 1756, the year of his death; ill. of Brotherton's engraved label.]

* Lane, John A., & Mathieu Lommen. Letterproeven van Nederlandse gieterijen . . . / Dutch Typefounders Specimens from the Library of the KVB and Other Collections in the Amsterdam University Library with Histories of the Firms Represented. Specimens compiled by Johan de Zoete. Amsterdam: De Graaf, 1998. 350 pp., ill.

Lerner, Frederick Andrew. The Story of Libraries: From the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age. New York: Continuum, 1998. 246 pp., ill.

* Le Vot, Valérie. Des livres à la vie: Lecteurs et lectures dans le roman allemand des Lumières.  Bern, New York et Paris: Peter Lang (coll. "Series 3: Études et documents." 45).1999. xiv, 451pp., ill.

Love, Harold. "Some Strengths of the James Marshall and Marie Louise Osborn Collection." Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1998): 155-67.

Lutz, Cora E. "Ezra Stiles and the Legend of the Angel of Hadley." Yale University Library Gazette, 73 (1999): 115-23.

* Marciari, John, comp. Grand Tour Diaries and Other Travel Manuscripts in the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection. (Yale U. Library Gazette, Occasional Supplement 2.) Foreword by Stephen Parks. New Haven, CT: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1999. Pp. iv + 171; bibliography; indices. [includes ambassadorial reports on customs and sites, autograph letters, descriptions by sailors, etc.; most MSS unpublished, citations of published mss. given; printed travel diaries are excluded unless they contain MSS notations].

* Martin, Henri-Jean.  Livres, pouvoirs et société à Paris au XVIIe siècle (1598-1701).  Genève: Droz (coll. «Titre courant»), 1999 (1969). 1091 pp.

Martin, Henri-Jean (édit.).  la Naissance du livre moderne. Mise en page et mise en texte du livre français (XIVe-XVIIe siècle).  Paris: Cercle de la librairie, 2000.  494 pp.

* Marx, William (ed.). Essays in Memory of Robin Rider. Lampeter: Founders' Library, St. David's College, University of Wales, 1997. xvi,  275 pp., ill. (Trivium, Vols. 29-30)

* Mason, Haydn (ed.). The Darnton Debate: Books and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century.  Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1998. ix, 305 pp.  (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 359.)

May, James E. "The First Three Editions of Gilbert Burnet's Abridgement of the History of the Reformation of the Church, Parts 1-2." The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 93 (1999): 181-212.

May, James E. "Rare Books and MSS [manuscripts] Offered and Acquired 1995-1997." The East-Central Intelligencer, 13, 3 (September 1999): 23-34.

May, James E. (comp.). "Women as Publishers, Readers, and Writers." The East-Central Intelligencer, 13, 1 (January 1999): 45-85.  A revised and expanded online version is available: http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/maytools2.htm 

* McCarthy, Muriel, and Caroline Sherwood-Smith. The Wisdom of the East: March's Oriental Books. Dublin: Archbishop Marsh's Library, 1999. 109 pp., ill.

McCorison, Marcus A., "The New-England Primer Enlarged, 1727." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 108 (1998): 63-66.

* McDonnell, Joseph. Five Hundred Years of the Art of the Book in Ireland: 1500 to the Present. Dublin and London: National Gallery of Ireland in Association with Merrel Holberton, 1997. 175 pp., ill.

McKitterick, David. "Histories of the Book."  The Book Collector, 49 (2000), 9-26 [review essay].

* Mellot, Jean-Dominique (édit.). L'Edition rouennaise et ses marches (vers 1600 - vers 1730): Dynamisme provincial et centralisme parisien. Préface de Henri-Jean Martin. Paris: École des Chartes (coll. "Mémoires et documents de l'École des Chartes," 48) , 1998.  816 pp., ill.

* Mellot, Jean-Dominique, et Elisabeth Queval (édit.). Répertoire d'imprimeurs/libraires XVIe-XVIIIe siècle: État en 1995. 3rd édition. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1997. 719 pp.

Merlotti, A.  "Negli Archivi del re. La lettura negata delle opere di Giannone nel Piemonte sabaudo (1748-1848)."  Rivista Storica Italiana, 107, 2 (1995): 332-86.

"Michael Twyman: A Checklist of the Published Writings." Printing History Society Bulletin, 44 (Summer 1998): 7-9 [Twyman is Emeritus Professor of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading and Chairman of the Printing History Society; the bibliography lists many 1990s publications on early nineteenth-century lithography throughout Europe.]

Meyer, Horst (comp. and ed.). Bibliographie der Buch- und Bibliotheksgeschichte. Vol. 16: 1996, Mit Nachträgen aus den Jahren 1980 bis 1995. Bad Iburg, Germany: Bibliographischer Verlag Dr. Horst Meyer, 1998. 619 pp.

* Monaghan, Charles. The Murrays of Murray Hill. Brooklyn, New York: Urban History Press, 1998. x, 166.

* Moureau, François (édIT.). Répertoire des nouvelles à la main: Dictionnaire de la presse manuscrite clandestine (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle). Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1999. l, 517 pp.

Mulvihill, Maureen E. "The Eureka! Piece in the Ephelia Puzzle: Book Ornaments in Attribution Research and a New Location for Rahir Fleuron 203 (Elzevier, 1896)." ANQ [American Notes and Queries], 12, 3 (1999): 23-34 [original title-page ornament for Female Poems on Several Occasions Written by Ephelia (1679) appeared in Mathys Press (Leyden) publications ca. 1670; Lady Mary Villiers (Mulvihill's candidate for Ephelia), would have seen the fleuron ornament in editions such as the Severin Mathys Polybius, and had it copied for her edition because the design (calling to mind butterflies and swords) hinted at her identity].

Myers, Robin. "Dr. Andrew Coltée Ducarel, Lambeth Librarian, Civilian, and Keeper of the Public Records." The Library, 6th ser., 21 (1999): 199-222 [Presidential Address, Bibliographical Society in London, 21 April 1998, on DuCarel (1713-1785).]

* Myers, Robin, & Michael Harris (eds.). Antiquaries, Book Collectors, and the Circles of Learning.  Winchester, Hampshire, U.K.: St. Paul's Bibliographies; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1996. xvi, 166 pp., ill.

* Myers, Robin, and Michael Harris (eds.). Journeys through the Market: Travel, Travellers, and the Book Trade. (Publishing Pathways.) New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 164; ill

* Myers, Robin, & Michael Harris (eds.). Medicine, Mortality, and the Book Trade.  Winchester, U.K.: St. Paul's Bibliographies; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1998. 170 pp.

* Myers, Robin, & Michael Harris (eds.). Stationers' Company and the Book Trade (1550-1990).  Winchester, Hampshire, University K.: St. Paul's Bibliographies; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1997. xiii, 210 pp., ill.

* Nicholls, Christine S. (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Biography. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 1046 pp.

* Nickell, Joe. Pen, Ink, and Evidence: A Study of Writing and Writing Materials for Penman, Collector, and Document Detective. 2nd ed. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 416 pp., ill. 

O'Brien, Padraig. "The Eyres Press--the First Decade." Quadrat, 9 (June 1999): 3-7.

Pallone, Nathaniel J. "The Nature of the Book." The European Legacy, 5, 3 (2000): 431 ff.

* Parks, Stephen, assisted by Earle Havens. The Luttrell File: Narcissus Luttrell's Dates on Contemporary Pamphlets, 1678-1730. (Yale U. Library Gazette, Occasional Supplement 3.) With a Chronological Index compiled by Carolyn Nelson. New Haven, CT: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1999. vi, 223 pp.

[Pitcher, E.W.] -- ANQ, 12, 1 (Winter 1999) is a special issue comprised of articles by E. W. Pitcher on periodicals. Foreword by Arthur Sherbo (2-6).  Pitcher's pieces include:  "Eliza Gilding (Mrs. Daniel Turner): Some Facts and Inferences" (6-22); "Glover, Goldsmith, and Hugh Kelly: A Comment on the 'Authentic Anecdotes of the late Dr. Goldsmith' (1774)" (23-26); "Samuel Whitechurch and The Westminster Magazine" (26-28); William Mugleston and 'The Matron': Authorship of a Lady's Magazine Essay Serial, 1774-91" (28-29); "J. W. Smith and the Essay Serials by "Sigma" in The Lady's Monthly Museum" (29-31); "Samuel Jackson Pratt's Miscellanies (1785): Sources for the Essays and Tales" (31-34); "'A Complexion of Improbabilities': American Humor and Frontier News after the Revolution" (34-41); "Inventing Humorous Indians in Early American Literature" (41-49); "Dr. Elihu H. Smith and 'The Simplist' Essay Serial in The New Hampshire Journal: or, Farmer's Weekly Museum" (49-51); and "Fiction in American Magazines before 1800: Addenda and Corrigenda" (52-60).

* Pitcher, Edward William. Facts and Fictions: Discoveries in Periodicals 1720-1820. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1999. 600 pp. [British periodical literature; indexes principal 18th-c essayists who followed Addison and Steele].

* Pitcher, Edward William. The Lady's Monthly Museum: First Series: 1798-1806. An Annotated Index Under Contributors' Names, Pseudonymous Signature, and Ascriptions.  Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1999. 356 pp.

* Pitcher, Edward William. The Literary Prose of Westminster Magazine, 1773-1785: An Annotated Index Under Contributors' Names, Pseudonymous Signature, and Ascriptions.  Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1999. 356 pp.

"Print, Picture, or Text?" The Book Collector, 47 (1998), 297-318; bibliography. [Unsigned review essay of recent publications on prints, including Timothy Clayton's The English Print, 1688-1802 (1997).]

Purcell, Mark. "'Useful Weapons for the Defence of that Cause': Richard Allestree, John Fell, and the Foundation of the Allestree Library." The Library, 6th ser., 21 (1999): 124-47 [historic library of the Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, founded by Allestree in 1681].

Raymond, Joad. "The History of Newspapers and the History of Journalism: Two Disciplines or One?" Media History, 5, 2 (1999): 223-32.

* Raymond, Joad. News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain. London and Portland, OR: F. Cass, 1999. 239 pp.

Reed, Joseph W. "Early Morning in the Boswell Vinyard." Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1998): 141-54.

Reese, William S. "The Rare Book Market Today." Yale University Library Gazette, 74 (1999): 146-65.

* Renwick, John et Lucette Pérol, avec la collaboration de Jean Ehrard.  Deux bibliothèques oratoriennes à la fin du XVIIIe siècle: Riom et Effiat.  Saint-Étienne: Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne, 1999.

Rétat, Pierre. "Batailles," dans D. Reynaud and C. Thomas (édit.), La Suite à l'ordinaire prochain: La représentation du monde dans les gazettes (Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1999), pp. 111-22.

Rétat, Pierre. "Politique et administration," dans Henri Duranton et Pierre Rétat (édit.), Gazettes et information politique sous l'Ancien Régime (Saint-Etienne: Presses Universitaires de Saint-Etienne, 1999), pp. 269-80.

* Reynaud, Denis, et Chantal Thomas (édit.). La Suite: L'Ordinaire prochain: La représentation du monde dans les gazettes. Lyon: Presses universitaires de Lyon, 1999. 293 pp.

* Rhodes, Barbara, & William Wells Streeter. Before Photocopying: The Art and History of Mechanical Copying, 1780-1938: A Book in Two Parts. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; Northampton, MA: Heraldry Bindery, 1999. 495 pp., ill.

Rohrer, James R. "The Connecticut Missionary Society and Book Distribution in the Early Republic." Library and Culture, 34 (1999): 17-26.

* Rosenblum, Joseph. Practice to Deceive: The Amazing Stories of Literary Forgery's Most Notorious Practitioners. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 416 pp., ill.

* Ross, Fiona G. E. The Printed Bengali Character and Its Evolution. Richmond: Curzon, 1999. xix, 244 pp., ill. 

* Schmidt-Glintzer, Helwig (ed.). A Treasure House of Books: The Library of Duke August of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.  Translated by Malcolm Green. Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek (Ausstellungs-kataloge der Herzog August Bibliothek, 75), 1998. 270 pp., ill.

* Scott, Patrick. "The Biographical Part of Literature": An Exhibition in Celebration of Literary Biography from the Collections of Thomas Cooper Library. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1998. x, 61 pp., ill. [exhibit dates: November 1998 to January 1999].

* Shaw, David J. (ed.). The Cathedral Libraries Catalogue. Vol. 2: Books Printed on the Continent of Europe before 1701 in the Libraries of the Anglican Cathedrals of England and Wales Part 1: A-K. Part 2: L-Z. Compiled with the assistance of Margaret S. G. McLeod (née Hands): Karen I. James, Lawrence Le R. Dethan, et al. London: British Library and the Bibliographical Society, 1998. xvi, 819 pp.

Shell, Alison. "Antiquarians, Local Politics, and the Book Trade: The Publication of Philip Morant's History of Colchester 1748)." The Library, 6th ser., 21 (1999): 223-46.

Solheim, Helene. "Thomas, not John, Baskerville and Thomas Hearne." Notes and Queries, n.s. 46, (1999): 345.

* Spalding, Paul S. Seize the Book, Jail the Author: Johann Lorenz Schmidt and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Germany. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1998. xvii, 347 pp., ill.

* Streeter, William W., and Barbara Rhodes. Before Photocopying: Art and History of Mechanical Copying 1780-1938. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1999. vii, 495 pp., ill.

"Studies in the History of the Book." The Book Collector, 48 (1999), 9-31; bibliography [unsigned review essay].

Suarez, Michael F., S.J. "English Book Sale Catalogues as Bibliographical Evidence: Methodological Considerations Illustrated by a Case Study in the Provenance and Distribution of Dodsley's Collection of Poems, 1750-1795." The Library, 6th ser., 21 (1999): 321-60.

* Sweeney, Tony, ed. Ireland and the Printed Word: A Short Descriptive Catalogue of Early Books, Pamphlets, Newsletters and Broadsides Relating to Ireland. Printed: 1475-1700. Dublin: Éamonn de Burca, 1997. 1000, pp., ill.

* Tanselle, G. Thomas. Literature and Artifacts. Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1998. xvii, 355, pp.

* Tattersfield, Nigel. Bookplates by Beilby and Bewick: A Bibliographical Dictionary of Bookplates from the Workshop of Ralph Beilby, Thomas Bewick, and Robert Bewick, 1760-1849. London: British Library; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1999. xi, 352 pp., ill., facsimiles.

* Traniello, Paolo. La biblioteca publica: Storia di un istituto nell'Europa contemporanea.  Bologna: Il Mulino (Saggi, 464), 1997. 388 pp.

* Tremaine, Marie. A Bibliography of Canadian Imprints, 1751-1800. 1970; rpt. University of Toronto Press, 1999. xxx, 705 pp.

* Trombetta, Vincenzo. Storia della Biblioteca Universitaria de Napoli dal vice-regno spagnolo all'unitá d'Italia. Naples: Vivarium, 1995.

* Twyman, Michael. The British Library Guide to Printing: History and Techniques. London: British Library, 1998. 88 pp., ill.

* Twyman, Michael. Printing 1770-1970: An Illustrated History of the Development and Uses in England. 1970; rpt. 1998.

* Vander Meulen, David L. (ed.). The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia: The First Fifty Years. Preface by G. Thomas Tanselle. Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1998. x, 272 pp.

* Van Dulken, Stephen. British Patents of Invention, 1617-1977: A Guide for Researchers. London: British Library; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. 211 pp., ill.

* Vodosek, Peter, & Graham Jefcoate (eds.). Bibliotheken in der literarischen Darstellung: Libraries in Literature. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (Wolfenbütteler Schriften zur Geschichte des Buchwesens, 33), 1999. 235 pp.

* Völpel, Annegret. Der Literarisierungsprozeß der Volksaufklärung des späten 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert. Dargestellt anhand der Volksschriften von Schlosser, Rochow, Becker, Salzmann und Hebel. Mit einer aktualisierten Bibliographie der Volksaufklärungsschriften.  Bern, New York, and Paris: Peter Lang (Europäische Hochschulschriften, Reihe 1: Deutsche Sprache und Literatur, 1568), 1996. 439 pp.

* Wächter, Wolfgang. Bücher erhalten pflegen und restaurieren. Stuttgart: Hauswedell, 1997. ix, 278 pp., ill.

Warkentin, Germaine. "The World and the Book at Penshurst: The Second Earl of Leicester (1595-1677) and His Library." The Library, 6th ser., 20 (1998): 325-46.

Weimerskirch, Philip J. "The National Library of England--Past and Present." Library Quarterly, 69 (1999): 505-10 [review essay].

Wenzel, Sarah G. "From Revolution to Evolution: The Transformation of the Bibliothèque Nationale into the Bibliothèque National de France, through the Lens of Popular and Professional Reports." Library Quarterly, 69 (1999): 324-38.

West, Anthony James. "Sales and Prices of Shakespeare First Folios: A History, 1623 to the Present (Part Two):" Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 93 (1999): 75-142.

* Whitley, Kathleen P. The Gilded Page: The History and Technique of Manuscript Gilding. Introduction by Michelle Brown. London: British Library; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 236 pp., ill.

Willison, Ian.  "The Creation of the Concept of the Rare Book.  The emergence of historical bibliography as a discipline: the case of the British Library."  Intellectual News, 6-7 (WInter 2000): 27-36.

* Wilsdorf, Heinz G. F. Early German-American Imprints.  Bern & New York: P. Lang (New German-American Studies, 17), 1999. xvi, 259 pp., ill.

* Wright, C. J. (ed.). Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and his Legacy. London: British Library, 1997. viii, 470 pp. ill.

[Yale University Libraries] "Recent Acquisitions Briefly Noted." Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1998): 171-92.

[Yale University Libraries.] "Recent Acquisitions Briefly Noted." Yale University Library Gazette, 74 (1999): 71-96; 173-92.

* Zachs, William. The First John Murray and the Late Eighteenth-Century London Book Trade: With a Checklist of His Publications.  Oxford University Press, 1999. xvi, 437 pp.

§ Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 80, 2 (Summer 1998), 1-381 -- a Guide to the Special Collections Division of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, arranged mostly under subject headings (not chronological period), such as "Western (European) Manuscript."]

[see also titles by Dobranski listed under England - Literature - Milton; by Brady listed under Theatre History]

 

 CANADA, L'ACADIE, LA LOUISIANE, LA NOUVELLE FRANCE, NEWFOUNDLAND, QUÉBEC, &c.

Andrés, Bernard. "Les manuscrits d'un Albigeois: De la signature maçonnique dans les pétitions québécoises de Pierre de Sales Laterrière (1778-1782)," dans Jacinthe Martel et Robert Melançon, édit., Inventaire, lecture, invention: Mélanges de critique et d'histoire littéraires offerts à Bernard Beugnot (Montréal: Paragraphes, 1999), pp. 119-52.

Laflèche, Guy.  Bibliographie littéraire de la Nouvelle-France. Laval: Éditions du singulier (coll. «Les cahiers universitaires du singulier», 2), 2000.  249 pSp. ISBN: 2-920580-08-6.

* Lemelin, André en collaboration avec Claude Marcil.  le Purgatoire de l'ignorance. L'éducation au Québec jusqu'à la grande réforme. Beauport, Québec: Publication MNH, 1999. 165 pp.

* Lamonde, Yvan. Histoire sociale des idées au Québec (1760-1960). Volume I: Un goût de clairière, 1760-1896. Montréal, Fides, 2000. ISBN: 2-7621-2104-3.

Lamonde, Yvan.  «"La France et nous": perceptions réciproques du Québec et de la France (1760-2000)», dans Alain Bardet et René Durocher (édit.), France-Québec, le regard de l'autre (Paris: CNRS/CCIFQ, 1999), pp. 426-437.

* Trudel, Marcel.  le Régime militaire et la disparition de la Nouvelle-France, 1759-1764.  Montréal: Fides (coll. «Histoire de la Nouvelle-France», X), 1999.  570 pp. ISBN: 2-7621-2062-4.

[see also title by Tremaine listed under Biblliography &c.]

 

CARTOGRAPHY & GEOGRAPHY

* Lewis, G. Malcolm (ed.). Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use.  University of Chicago Press, for the Herman Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, the Newberry Library, 1998. 318 pp.  (The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr.., Lectures in the History of Cartography.)

Myers, James P., Jr. "Mapping Pennsylvania's Western Frontier in 1756." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 123 (1999): 3-30.

* Pedley, Mary Spoonberg. Map Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century: Letters to the London Map Dealers Jefferys and Faden.  Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2000. 

Peltz, Lucy. "Aestheticizing the Ancestral City: Topography and the Representation of London in the Long Eighteenth Century." Art History, 22 (1999): 472-94 [on antiquarian representations of London, as Wenceslaus Hollar's engravings authorized by the Society of Antiquaries].

* Smith, Richard J.  Chinese Maps: Images of 'All Under Heaven'.  Oxford University Press, 1996 0-19-585949-9

* Suarez, Thomas.  Early Mapping of Southeast Asia.  Periplus Editions, 1999.  300 pp.  ISBN: 9625934707

* Whitfield, Peter. New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration. London: British Library, 1998. viii, 200 pp., ill.

 

CEYLON, SRI LANKA

* Arasaratnam, Sinnappah.  Ceylon and the Dutch, 1600-1800 : External Influences and Internal Change in Early Modern Sri Lanka.  Variorum (Collected Studies Series, 525), 1996.  ISBN: 0860785793 

 

 CHINA

* Dillon, Michael.  China : A Historical and Cultural Dictionary.  Curzon Press (Durham East Asia Series), 1998.  ISBN: 0700704388 (cloth); 0700704396 (paper)

* Gunn, Geoffrey C. Encountering MacAu : A Portuguese City-State on the Periphery of China, 1557-1999.  Westview Press, 1996. ISBN: 0813389704 

*  Millward, James A.  Beyond the Pass : Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864.  Stanford University Press, 1998. 450 pp.  ISBN: 0804729336

* Spence, Jonathan D. la Chine imaginaire. La Chine vue par les Occidentaux. De Marco Polo à nos jours. Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2000. ISBN: 2-7621-1757-2.

[see also title by Smith listed under Cartography; by Jones listed under History of Religion - Buddhism]

 

 CLASSICS, CLASSICAL CIVILISATION

* Benitez, Miguel, Antony McKenna, Gianni Paganini, et Jean Salem (édit.). Materia actuosa, Antiquité, Âge classique, Lumières. Mélanges en l'honneur d'Olivier Bloch.  Slatkine, 2000.  400 pp. ISBN: 2-7453-0237-X.

Schnapp, A. «Les Antiquités entre la France et l'Allemagne au XVIIIe siècle». Revue germanique internationale, 13, (2000).

HOMER

Scalvini, B.  "L'Iliade tra compendio e dramma: Alessandro Verri traduttore di Omero."  Studi Settecenteschi, 18 (1998): 159-78.

LUCRETIUS

* Repetzki, Michael M. (ed.). John Evelyn's Translation of Titus Lucretius Carus, De rerum natura: An Old-Spelling Critical Edition  Bern and New York: Peter Lang (Münster Monographs on English Literature, 22), 2000. cxiii, 275 pp.

ROME

* Edwards, Catharine, ed.  Roman Presences: Receptions of Rome in European Culture, 1789-1945.  Cambridge University Press, 1999.  xii + 279 pp. ISBN 0-521-59197-X [Select essay titles include Catharine Edwards, "Introduction: shadows and fragments" (1-18); Duncan F. Kennedy, "A Sense of place: Rome, history and empire revisited" (35-52); Stephen Bann, "Envisioning Rome: Granet and Gibbon in dialogue" (35-52); Valérie Huet, "Napoleon I: a new Augustus?" (53-69); Javed Majeed, "Comparativism and references to Rome in British imperial attitudes to India" (88-109); Norman Vance, "Decadence and the subversion of empire" (110-24); Chloe Chard, "The road to ruin: memory, ghosts, moonlight and weeds" (125-39)].

[see also title by Villis listed under History of Art - Bellotto; by Von Solodkoff listed under Material Culture]

STRABO

Dizès, J.-M.. «Un passage de Strabon provenant des Papiers Dupin». Études Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 9 (1997).

TACITUS

Soll, Jacob.  "Amelot de La Houssaye (1634-1706) Annotates Tacitus." Journal of the History of Ideas, 61, 2 (April, 2000): 167-87.

 

COMPUTERS, THE INTERNET, & ELECTRONIC RESOURCES FOR TEACHING & SCHOLARSHIP

Blake, N.  "Tutors and Students without Faces or Places."  Journal of Philosophy of Education, 34, 1 (2000): 183-96.

Bramall, S.  "The Educational Significance of the Interface." Journal of Philosophy of Education, 34, 1 (2000): 71-84.

* Brown, John Seely, & Pail Duguid.  The Social Life of Information.  Harvard Business School, 2000.  304 pp.  ISBN 0-8758-4762-5 -- and see review by Luciano Floridi, "A little e-learning...," TLS, 5069 (May 26, 2000):  30.

Bruce, B.  "Credibility of the Web: Why We Need Dialectical Reading."  Journal of Philosophy of Education, 34, 1 (2000): 97-109.

Darnton, Robert. «Paris: The Early Internet». New York Review of Books, 11 (juin 2000): 42-47.

Duncan, B.J.  "Writing Feminist Webzines and the Confusion of Identity."  Journal of Philosophy of Education, 34, 1 (2000): 85-95.

Kolb, D.  "Learning Places: Building Dwelling Thinking Online." Journal of Philosophy of Education, 34, 1 (2000): 121-33.

Lankshear, C., M. Peters & M. Knobel.  "Information, Knowledge and Learning: Some Issues Facing Epistemology and Education in a Digital Age."  Journal of Philosophy of Education, 34, 1 (2000): 17-29.

 Lelliott, A., S. Pendlebury & P. Enslin.  "Promises of Access and Inclusion: Online Education in Africa."  Journal of Philosophy of Education, 34, 1 (2000): 41-52.

Lüethy, Christopher. "Caught in the electronic revolution: Observations  and analyses by some historians of science, medicine, technology and philosophy."  Early Science and Medicine, 5, 1 (2000): 64-92.

Marshall, J.  "Electronic Writing and the Wrapping of Language." Journal of Philosophy of Education, 34, 1 (2000): 135-49.

McKie, J.  "Conjuring Notions of Place."  Journal of Philosophy of Education, 34, 1 (2000): 111 -120.

* Miller, Daniel, & Don Slater.  The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach.  Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2000.  224 pp.  ISBN 1-85973-384-0 (cloth); 1-85973-389-1 (paper) -- see web tie-in: http://ethnonet.gold.ac.uk/ 

Sandbothe, M.  "Media Philosophy and Media Education in the Age of the Internet."  Journal of Philosophy of Education, 34, 1 (2000): 53-69.

Standish, P.  "Fetish for Effect."  Journal of Philosophy of Education, 34, 1 (2000): 151-68.

[see also title by Brady listed under Theatre History]

 

CULINARY HISTORY, OENOLOGY, FOOD & DRINK, CAKES & ALE

* Cagle, William R.  A Matter of Taste. Rev. ed. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll, 1999. 1205 pp., ill. [a companion to American Books on Food and Drink (1998), by W.R. Cagle & Lisa Killion Stafford]

Lehmann, Gilly. "Le Livre de cuisine en Angleterre aus XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: Par qui, pour qui?" Bulletin de la Société d'Études Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles, 46 (1999): 89-102.

* Mayson, Richard.  Port and the Douro.  Faber, 2000.  320 pp.  ISBN 0-571-19522-9 (paper) -- and see review by Paul Duguid, "Goodbye to the Englishman's wine," TLS, 5069 (May 26, 2000): 36.

* Oldenburg, Henrik.  Port.  Copenhagen: Smag & Behag, 2000.  380 pp.  ISBN 87-90179-16-1 -- and see review listed under Mayson.

 

ECONOMICS

Amato, M.  "Dal 'dibattito sulle monete' al Della Moneta. Riforme, monete, calcolo e intelletto da Muratori e Beccaria a Galiani."  Rivista Storica Italiana, 108, 2-3 (1996): 836-56.

Arrow, Kenneth J.  "Increasing returns: historiographic issues and path dependence."  European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 7, 2 (2000): 171 ff.

* Denis, Henri.  Histoire de la pensée économique.  Paris: Presses universitaires de France (coll. «Quadrige», 290), 1999.  736 pp. ISBN: 2-13-050171-0.

* Tabatoni, Pierre. Mémoire des monnaies européennes, du denier à l'euro. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1999. 256 pp. ISBN: 2-13-050237-7.

* Teichova, Alice, Ginette Kurgan-Van Hentenryk, & D. Ziegler, eds.  Banking, Trade and Industry : Europe, America and Asia from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0-521-57361-0 

Colander, David.  "The Death of Neoclassical Economics."  Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 22, 2 (2000): 127-44.

 Harpham, Edward  J.  "The Problem of Liberty in the Thought of Adam Smith."  Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 22, 2 (2000):  217 ff.

Van Den  Berg, Richard.  "Differential rent in the 1760s: two neglected French contributions."  European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 7, 2 (2000):  181 ff.

§ The Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 22, 2 (2000) includes a special roundtable on heterodox economics; titles include A.W. Bob  Coats, "The Progress of Heterodox Economics" (145);  Roger  E.  Backhouse, "Progress in Heterodox Economics" (149); Sheila  C.  Dow, "Prospects for the Progress of Heterodox Economics" (157); Daniel  R.  Fusfeld, "Comments on the Roundtable Discussion" (171); Craufurd  D.  Goodwin, "Comment: It's the Homogeneity, Stupid!" (179); Malcolm  Rutherford, " It's the Prospects of Heterodox Economics: A Comment" (185); and A.W. Bob  Coats, "Concluding Reflections" (189).

[see also titles by McGowen & by Russell listed under England - History]

 

ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA

Abbattista, G.  "La 'folie de la raison par alphabet'. Le origini settecentesche dell'Encyclopaedia Britannica (1768-1801)."  Studi Settecenteschi, 16 (1996): 397-434.

Castagneto, P.  "Uomo, natura e società nelle edizioni settecentesche dell'Encyclopaedia Britannica.Studi Settecenteschi, 16 (1996): 435-76.

Sebastiani, S.  "Race as a Construction of the Other: 'Native Americans' and 'Negroes' in the 18th Century Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica," in Bo Stråth, ed., Europe and the Other and Europe as the Other (Bruxelles/Bern/Berlin/Oxford/New York/Wien: Peter Lang, 2000).

 

ENGLAND - HISTORY

* Baranger, Denis.  le Parlementarisme des origines. Essai sur les conditions de formation d'un exécutif responsable en Angleterre, des années 1740 au début de l'âge victorien.  Paris: Presses universitaires de France (coll. «Léviathan»), 1999. 416 pp. ISBN: 2-13-049744-6.

* Barker, Hannah. Newspapers, Politics, and Public Opinion in Late Eighteenth-Century England. Oxford: Clarendon, 1999.  vii, 202 pp., ill. 

Birtles, Sara. "Common Land, Poor Relief and Enclosure: The Use of Manorial Resources in Fulfilling Parish Obligations 1601-1834." Past and Present, 165 (November 1999): 74-106 [the elimination of use-rights].

* Black, Jeremy. Britain as a military power, 1688-1815. London: UCL Press, 1999. ISBN 1-85728-772-X.

* Butler, Larry, and Anthony Gorst (ed.). Modern British History: A Guide to Study and Research. London: I. B. Tauris, 1998. x, 310 pp.

Castagneto, P.  "La prima missione diplomatica di Francesco Maria Ageno, ministro della Serenissima a Londra." Studi Settecenteschi, 17 (1997): 187-226 [Venetian diplomacy in London].

* Claydon, Tony and Ian McBride, ed. Protestantism and national identity. Britain and Ireland c. 1650-c. 1850. Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-521-62077-5.

* Clout, Hugo.  Histoire de Londres.  Paris: Presses universitaires de France (coll. «Que sais-je ?», 3428), 1999. Traduction de Jean Robert. ISBN: 2 13 049583 4.

* Davis, Robert P. Where a Man Can Go: Major General William Phillips, British Royal Artillery, 1731-1781.  Foreword by Peter Somerville-Large. Westport, CT: Greenwood (Contributions in Military Studies, 179), 1999. 240 pp., ill., maps.

French, H.R. "Social Status, Localism and the 'Middle Sort of People' in England 620-1750." Past and Present, 166 (February 2000): 66-99.

* Jaffe, James A.  Striking a Bargain: Work and Industrial Relations in England, 1780-1850. Manchester University Press, September 2000. 256pp. ISBN 0-7190-4952-0

* Loretelli, Rosamaria, & Roberto De Romanis (eds.). Narrating Transgression: Representations of the Criminal in Early Modern England.  Bern and New York: P. Lang (Anglo-American Studies, 11), 1999. 172 pp., ill.

* Macleod, Emma. A war of ideas: British attitudes to the wars against revolutionary France, 1792-1802. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. ISBN 1-8401-4614-1.

McGowen, Randall. "From Pillory to Gallows: The Punishment of Forgery in the Age of the Financial Revolution." Past and Present, 165 (November 1999): 107-140 [the Forgery Statute of 1729, the system of paper credit, and the forgeries of William Hales].

Russell, Gillian. "'Faro's Daughters': Female Gamesters, Politics, and the Discourse of Finance in 1790s Britain." Eighteenth-Century Studies, 33, 4 (Summer 2000): 481-504.

* Sweet, Rosemary. The Writing of Urban Histories in Eighteenth-Century England. Oxford: Clarendon, 1997. x, 356 pp.

 

ENGLAND - LITERATURE

* Alexander, Harriet Semmes. American and British Poetry: A Guide to Criticism, 1979-1990. Ohio University Press, 1996. xiv, 465 pp.

Bois, Catherine. «The Natural Sublime in Wordsworth's Poetry and Romantic Landscape Paintings». article électronique, Cercles. Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone, 1, 1 (2000). Available (in Adobe Acrobat format]: http://www.cercles.com/vol1_n1/bois.pdf  ISSN: 1292-8968 [18th-c theories of the sublime; Boileau, Dennis, Addison, Locke, Baillie, French Academy, Burke, Smith, Joseph Wright of Derby, Rosa, Cozens, Turner].

* Darton, F. J. Harvey. Children's Books in England: Five Centuries of Social Life. 3rd ed. Corrected & expanded by Brian Alderson. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; London: British Library, 1999.  xviii, 398 pp., ill.

* Garside, Peter, & Rainer Schöwerling. The English Novel 1770-1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles. Vol. 2: 1800-1829.  Oxford University Press, 2000. [For Vol. 1 see title by Raven listed below]

* Harner, James L. Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies. New York: MLA, 1998. 772 pp.

* Keen, Paul. The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s: Print Culture and the Public Sphere.  Cambridge University Press, 1999.

* Kitson, Peter J., et al.  The Year's Work in English Studies. Vol. 77: 1996.  Malden, MA, and Oxford: Blackwell, for the English Association, 1999. lxxiv, 1082 pp.

* Kramnick, Jonathan Brody. Making the English Canon: Print-Capitalism and the Cultural Past 1700-1770.  Cambridge University Press, 1999. viii, 287 pp.

* Letellier, Robert Ignatius, ed. A Bibliography of the English Novel from the Restoration to the French Revolution: A Checklist of Sources and Critical Materials, with Particular Reference to the Period 1660-1740. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, University Salzburg; Lewisburg, NY: E. Mellen, 1994. xxxvii, 428 pp.

* Looser, Devoney. British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820. Johns Hopkins University Press, November 2000. 320pp. ISBN 0-8018-6448-8

* McDowell, Paula. Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1998. viii, 347 pp., ill.

* Norton, Rictor, ed. Gothic Readings: The First Wave 1764-1840. Leicester University Press, 2000. 384 pp., ill. ISBN: and 0-7185-0216-7 (cloth); 0-7185-0217-5 (paper). [Anthology including selections from Walpole, Beckford, Radcliffe, Lewis, Coleridge, Godwin, Shelley, Maturin, Poe & followers incl. Reeve, Smith, Dacre, Baillie, Brown, Cowley, Cuthbertson & Parsons, as well as reviews, letters, diaries, chapbooks, and anecdotes about dramatic performances and the design of theatre sets. A complete Table of Contents may be seen at the editor's site, available: http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/gothic.htm and the Introduction at http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/gothintr.htm]

O'Connor, Mary.  «Representations of Intimacy in the Life-Writing of Anne Clifford and Anne Dormer», dans Patrick Coleman, Jayne Lewis et Jill Kowalik (édit.), Representations of the Self from the Renaissance to Romanticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 79-96. ISBN: 0 521 66146 3.

* Pearson, Jacqueline. Women's Reading in Britain, 1750-1835: A Dangerous Recreation. Cambridge University Press, 1999. x, 300 pp.

Prescott, Sarah, & Jane Spencer. "Prattling, tattling and knowing everything: public authority and the female editorial persona in the early essay-periodical." British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 23 (Spring 2000): 43-57 [discussion of The Female tatler, The Female spectator, and The Old maid].

* Raven, James. The English Novel 1770-1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles. Vol. 1: 1770-1799.  Oxford University Press, 2000. [For Vol. 2 (1800-1829) see title by Garside & Schöwerling listed above].

Shuger, Debora.  «Life-Writing in Seventeenth-Century England», dans Patrick Coleman, Jayne Lewis et Jill Kowalik (édit.), Representations of the Self from the Renaissance to Romanticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 63-78. ISBN: 0 521 66146 3.

* Treglown, Jeremy, & Bridget Bennett (eds.). Grub Street and the Ivory Tower: Literary Journalism and Literary Scholarship from Fielding to the Internet. Oxford University Press, 1999. 304 pp.

* Warner, William B. Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750. University of California Press, 1998. xvi, 325 pp.

* Wheale, Nigel. Writing and Society: Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain (1590-1660). London: Routledge, 1999.

§ Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 12, 2-3 (January-April 2000) is a special double issue on "Reconsidering the Rise of the Novel."  Titles include David Blewett, "Introduction" (141-45); Ian Watt, "Flat-Footed and Fly-Blown: The Realities of Realism" (147-66); W.B. Carnochan, "'A Matter Discutable': The Rise of the Novel" (167-84); Max Byrd, "Two or Three Things I Know about Setting" (185-91); Michael Seidel, "The Man Who Came to Dinner: Ian Watt and the Theory of Formal Realism" (193-212); Robert B. Alter, "A Question of Beginnings" (213-25); J. Paul Hunter, "Serious Reflections on Daniel Defoe (with an Excursus on the Farther Adventures of Ian Watt and Two Notes on the Present State of Literary Studies)" (227-37);  Maximillian E. Novak, "Gendered Cultural Criticism and the Rise of the Novel: The Case of Defoe" (239-52); Michael McKeon, "Watt's Rise of the Novel within the Tradition of the Rise of the Novel" (253-76); Robert Mayer, "Did You Say Middle Class ? The Question of Taste and the Rise of the Novel" (277-307); J.A. Downie, "Mary Davys's 'Probable Feign'd Stories' and Critical Shibboleths about 'The Rise of the Novel'" (309-26); John Richetti, "Ideas and Voices: The New Novel in Eighteenth-Century England" (327-44); Deidre Lynch, "Personal Effects and Sentimental Fictions" (345-68); Everett Zimmerman, "Personal Identity, Narrative, and History: The Female Quixote and Redgauntlet" (369-90); William Beatty Warner, "Staging Readers Reading" (391-416, ill.); JanetTodd, "Fatal Fluency: Behn's Fiction and the Restoration Letter" (417-34); Margaret Anne Doody, "Shandyism, Or, the Novel in Its Assy Shape: African Apuleius, The Golden Ass, and Prose Fiction" (435-57); Robert Folkenflik, "The New Model Eighteenth-Century Novel" ( 459-78); Lennard J. Davis, "Reconsidering Origins: How Novel Are Theories of the Novel ?" (479-99).

AKENSIDE

Dix, Robin. "The pleasures of speculation: scholarly methodology in eighteenth-century literary studies." British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 23 (Spring 2000): 85-103 [the case of Mark Akenside, tracing evidence for speculations on his attitude to his humble origins and his possible homosexuality].

AUSTEN

* Austen, Jane.  A Celebration.  Ed. Maggie Lane & David Selwyn.  Manchester: Fyfield/Carcanet/Jane Austen Society/Chawton House Library, 2000.  96 pp.  ISBN 1-85754-457-9

* Austen, Jane.  Evelyn.  Edmonton: Juvenilia Press, 1999.  xxiii, 38 pp., ill. Ed. Peter Sabor et al. ISBN: 0-9681961-2-8.

Delany, Paul. "'A Sort of Notch in the Donwell Estate': Intersections of Status and Class in Emma." Eighteenth Century Fiction, 12, 4 (July 2000): 533-48.

Goubert, Pierre. «Le regard de la femme dans les romans de Jane Austen», article électronique, Cercles. Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone, 1, 1 (2000).  ISSN: 1292-8968.  Localisation (Adobe Acrobat): http://www.cercles.com/vol1_n1/goubert.pdf  

[see also title by Spacks listed under England - Literature - Burney]

BEHN

Burrows, John, & Harold Love. "Did Aphra Behn Write 'Cesar's Ghost'?" in The Culture of the Book: Essays from Two Hemispheres in Honour of Walter Kirsop (Melbourne: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1999).  [edited text, contextual and stylometric evidence supplementing Mary Ann O'Donnell's identification of Behn's hand in Bodleian MS Firth c16, maintaining Behn wrote this lampoon of "senior officals of the army of James II from a loyalist perspective."]

Rivero, Albert J. "Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and the 'Blank Spaces' of Colonial Fictions." Studdies in English Literature, 39 (1999): 443-62.

 BLAKE

Bentley, G. E., Jr. (with the assistance of Keiko Aoyama for Japanese publications). "William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Publications and Discoveries in 1998." Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, 32 (1999): 114-48.

BROOKE

[see title by Prescott & Spencer listed under England - Literature]

BUNYAN

[see title by Sim & Warner listed under History of Religion - Christianity - Protestant]

BURNEY

Justice, George. "Frances Burney's Revision of Camilla." Notes and Queries, n.s. 46, (1999): 368-69.

Spacks, Patricia Meyer. "Privacy, Dissimulation, and Propriety: Frances Burney and Jane Austen", Eighteenth Century Fiction, 12, 4 (July 2000): 515-32.

CHARKE

Fields, Polly S. "Charlotte Charke and the Liminality of Bi-Gendering: A Study of the Canonical Works," in Sigrid King (ed.), A Pilgrimage for Love: New Essays in Early Modern Literature (Tempe, AR: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies [MRTS, 213], 2000), pp. 221-39.

CIBBER

Szilagyi, Stephen. "The Importance of Being Easy: Desire and Cibber's The Careless Husband." Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 41, 2 (1999): 142-59.

CLELAND

Sabor, Peter. "From Sexual Liberation to Gender Trouble: Reading Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure from the 1960s to the 1990s." Eighteenth-Century Studies, 33, 4 (Summer 2000): 561-78 [review essay].

COMBE

Spearing, Elizabeth.  "Dr. Syntax's dream: the Battle of the books."  Intellectual News, 6-7 (Winter 2000): 37-41 [a selection (canto 25) with annotations, under the heading "Department of Serious Fun"].

CONGREVE

McKenzie, D. F. "William Congreve in Dutch (1695) and his Travels Abroad (1700)." The Library, 6th ser., 21 (1999): 67-70.

DEFOE

Furbank, P.N. and W.R. Owens. "Defoe, the De La Faye letters and Mercurius politicus." British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 23 (Spring 2000): 13-19.

DRYDEN

Hammond, Paul. "A Song Attributed to Dryden." The Library, 6th ser., 21 (1999): 59-66 [transcribes & discusses Bodleian manuscript MS Firth e.6, Fol. 60, with the heading "Song. By Mr. Dryden; in the Person of my Lord Salisbury."]

[see also title by Berkhout listed under England - Literature - Rochester]

FIELDING, HENRY

Amory, Hugh. "Fielding's Latin Poem: A Correction." Notes and Queries, n.s. 46, (1999): 356-58 [Journey from This World to the Next].

[see also title by Pitcher listed under Bibliography]

GIBBON

Breeze, Andrew. "Gibbon's Memoirs and Queenborough Castle, Kent." Notes and Queries, n.s. 46 (1999): 364-65.

GODWIN

* Graham, Kenneth W. William Godwin Reviewed: A Reception History 1783-1834. New York: AMS Press, 2000. xiv, 607 pp.

GRAY

* Mack, Robert L. Thomas Gray. Yale University Press, November 2000. 578 pp. ISBN 0-300-08499-4

HAYWOOD

* Selected Works of Eliza Haywood. Set I, vol. 1: Miscellaneous Writings, 1725-1743, ed. Alexander Pettit. Pickering & Chatto, 2000. lxxxii, 288pp. [Christine Blouch, "Eliza Haywood" (biographical introduction); The Tea-Table (1725); The Tea-Table ... Part the Second (1726); Reflections on the Various Effects of Love (1726); Love-Letters on All Occasions (1730); A Present for a Servant-Maid (1743)].
    Set I, vol. 2: Epistles for the Ladies, ed. Christine Blouch and Alexander Pettit. Pickering & Chatto, 2000 xi, 480pp. [Epistles for the Ladies, vol. 1 (1749); Epistles for the Ladies, vol. 2 (1750)].
    Set I, vol. 3: "The Wife," "The Husband," and "The Young Lady," ed. Alexander Pettit and Margo Collins. Pickering & Chatto, 2000. xii, 339 pp. [The Wife (1755); The Husband (1756); The Young Lady (1756)].
    ISBN (3 vols). 1-85196-528-9.

[see also title by Prescott & Spencer listed under England - Literature]

 JOHNSON

Ferrero, Bonnie. "Alexander Chalmers and the Canon of Samuel Johnson." British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 22 (1999): 173-86.

* Fleeman, J. D. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784. Vol. 1: 1731-1759.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1999. 688 pp.; Vol. 2: 1759-1787.  Oxford: Clarendon, 2000. 864 pp.

* Wechselblatt, Martin. Bad behavior: Samuel Johnson and modern cultural authority. London: Associated University Presses, 1998. ISBN: 0-8387-5329-9.

LILLO

Fields, Polly S. "George Lillo and the Victims of Economic Theory." Studies in the Literary Imagination , 32, 2 (Autumn 1999): 77-88.

MILTON

* Dobranski, Stephen B. Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade. Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiii, 245 pp., ill.

Shawcross, John T. "Commercialism: Early Editors of Milton and Their Publishers." Milton Quarterly, 33, 3 (1999): 61-66.

RADCLIFFE

MacKenzie, Scott. "Ann Radcliffe's Gothic Narrative and the Readers at Home." Studies in the Novel, 31 (1999): 409-31.

RICHARDSON

Austin, Michael. "Lincolnshire Babylon: Competing Typologies in Pamela's 137th Psalm." Eighteenth Century Fiction, 12, 4 (July 2000): 501-14.

ROBINSON

Mellor, Anne K., «Mary Robinson and the Scripts of Female Sexuality», dans Patrick Coleman, Jayne Lewis et Jill Kowalik (édit.), Representations of the Self from the Renaissance to Romanticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 230-259. Ill. ISBN: 0 521 66146 3.

ROCHESTER

Berkhout, Carl T. "Rochester on Dryden: Another Manuscript of A Satyre against Reason and Mankind." Restoration, 24 (2000): 11-14. [early MS of ll. 60-111 from the University of Arizona copy of Dryden's The Last Emperour, 1670; "partial witness to the text in British Library MS. Sloane 1458 "]

Ellis, Frank H., & David F. Severs. "NYCRO  ZK9785, a New Rochester Manuscript." Restoration, 25 (1999): 71-75, ill. [Re: 4 poems in North Yorkshire County Record Office MS.,concluding Etherege is the more likely author of "Seising of 12 Dildos" & Rochester the likely author of "Dialogue."]

Saslow, Edward L. "A 'New' Epilogue by Rochester." Restoration, 23 (1999): 1-9 [verses from Rochester holograph published by Vivian de Sola Pinto as "Draft of a Satire on Men" is a "complete epilogue" for a 1672 all-female performance].

SHAKESPEARE

George, David. "Eighteenth-Century Editors, Critics, and Performers of Coriolanus." Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography, n.s. 10 (1999): 63-71.

* Kahan, Jeffrey. Reforging Shakespeare: The Story of a Theatrical Scandal. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1998. 272 pp.

* Kolb, Sabine.  Wielands Shakespeare-Übersetzung: Ihre Enstehung und ihre Rezeption im Sturm und Drang.  Frankfurt am Main &c.: Peter Lang, 2000.  ISBN 3-631-35968-3

[see titles by George and by West listed under Bibliography &c.]

SMOLLETT

Puel, Marc. «La ville et le luxe dans Humphry Clinker», article électronique, Cercles. Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone, 1, 1 (2000).ISSN: 1292-8968  Localisation (Adobe Acrobat pdf file): http://www.cercles.com/vol1_n1/puel.pdf

STERNE

* Hardin, Michael.  Playing the Reader: The Homoerotics of Self-Reflexive Fiction.  New York &c.: Peter Lang (Sexuality and Literature, 8), 2000.  157 pp.  ISBN 0-8204-4408-1 [maintains a strong homoerotic metanarrative exists despite the heterosexual relationships at the narrative level of select novels; includes discussion of Tristram Shandy].

WORTLEY MONTAGU

Shaw, Jane. "Gender and the 'Nature' of Religion: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Embassy Letters and Their Place in Enlightenment Philosophy of Religion." Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 80, no. 3 (Autumn, 1998), 129-45.

WOLLSTONECRAFT

* Windle, John. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 1759-1797. Expanded 2nd ed. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 90 pp., ill.

 

EUROPEAN HISTORY

Guerra, L.  "Scandinavia 1795. Rapporto dai confini d'Europa." Studi Settecenteschi, 15 (1995): 281-330.

 

FICTION, DRAMA, & POETRY
WITH (WE THINK)
AN 18TH-CENTURY HISTORICAL SETTING

* Adahazzi, Federico.  The Merciful Women.  Tr. Alberto Manguel.  London: Doubleday, 2000.  188 pp.  ISBN: 0-385-6-0053-4 -- and see review by Mick Imlah, "White mischief," TLS, 5006 (May 5, 2000): 21 [alternative fictional account of Polidori's authorship & association with Mary Shelley, Byron, &c].

* Bail, Micheline.  l'Esclave.  Montréal: Libre expression, 1999.  400 pp.  [Roman qui se déroule au XVIIIe siècle.]

* Bradbury, Malcolm.  To the Hermitage.  Picador, 2000.  489 pp.  ISBN 0-330-37622-4 -- and see review by David Coward, "Postmortemism: Diderot -- and Malcolm Bradbury -- in St Petersburg," TLS 5068 (May 19, 2000): 22.

 * Brantôme, Marie. le Galant Exil du marquis de Boufflers. Paris: Flammarion, 2000. 288 pp. [Roman qui se déroule au XVIIIe siècle.]

* Breton, Yves.  les Chasseurs de continents. La Vérendrye et fils.  Vanier: l'Interligne, 1999.  148 pp. [Roman qui se déroule au XVIIIe siècle.]

* Desprat, Jean-Paul.  les Enfarinés.  Rodez: Éditions du Rouergue, 2000.  360 pp.  [Roman qui se déroule au XVIIIe siècle.] ISBN: 2 84156 233 6.

* Liss, David.  A Conspiracy of Paper: A Novel.  Random House, 2000. 442 pp.  ISBN: 0-375-50292-0 [see reviews and information and a pretty impressively high sales figure at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375502920/qid=962331375/sr=1-2/103-1771861-8303040 

* Murph, Roxane C. The English Civil War through the Restoration in Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography, 1625-1999. Westport, CT: Greenwood (Bibliographies and Indexes in World History, 49) , 2000. 360 pp.

Vissière, Jean-Louis. «Denis et les détectives». Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, 28 (avril 2000): 164-165. [Sur des romans policiers mettant Diderot en scène.]

* Weiss, Peter.  Marat-Sade.  Paris: l'Arche, 2000.  160 pp. Traduction de Jean Baudrillard. ISBN: 2-85181-464-8.

* Zweig, Arnold.  Sortilèges à Palerme, Paris: Desjonquères (coll. «Littérature allemande»), 1999.  128 pp. Traduction de Jacques Legrand. Roman qui se déroule au XVIIIe siècle. ISBN: 2 84 321023 2.

 

FRANCE - HISTORY

* L'Affiche en révolution.  Vizille: Musée de la Révolution française, 1998 (catalogue of an exhibition at the Musée de la Révolution française, 3 July - 21 September 1998).

Alimento, A.  "Un gioco di scacchi? Aspetti e problemi di storia politica della Francia pre-rivoluzionaria."  Rivista Storica Italiana, 110, 2 (1998): 529-72 [politics in pre-revolutionary France].

* Barbiche, Bernard, les Institutions de la monarchie française à l'époque moderne, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle.  Paris: Presses universitaires de France (coll. «Premier cycle»), 1999.  448 pp. ISBN: 2 13 048195 7.

* Beyerlé, Jean-Pierre Louis. De Conventu generali Latomorum. Paris: Libris éditions (coll. «Acta Latomorum»), 1997. lxv, 256 pp. Préfacé par M. Mirabel. Reprint du texte de 1782.

Blanquie, C. «Dans la main du Grand Maître, les offices de la maison du roi, 1643-1720». Histoire et mesure, 13, 3-4 (1998).

* Bodineau, Pierre, et Michel Verpeaux. Histoire constitutionnelle de la France. Paris: Presses universitaires de France (coll. «Que sais-je ?», 3547), 2000. ISBN: 2-13-050588-0.

Cassina, C.  "L'obsession interminable. La révolution française dans la littérature ultra-royaliste au début de la Restauration."  Storia della storiografia, 27 (1995): 17-37.

Cave, Christophe, et Denis Reynaud. "L'anne 1748 dans

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