Philosophy & Religion

Major works

• American Exceptionalism
• Blasphemy in Britain and America, 1800–1930
• Christianity Not as Old as the Creation: The Last of Defoe's Performances
• Conduct Literature for Women, Part I, 1500–1640
• Conduct Literature for Women, Part II, 1640–1710
• Conduct Literature for Women, Part III, 1720–1770
• Conduct Literature for Women, Part IV, 1770–1830
• Conduct Literature for Women, Part V, 1830–1900
• The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson
• Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture
• English Catholicism, 1680–1830
• English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800
• English Nonconformist Poetry, 1660–1700
• The Enlightenment in America, 1720–1825
• Female Education in the Age of Enlightenment
• G K Chesterton at the Daily News: Literature, Liberalism and Revolution, 1901–1913
• Ghosts: A Social History
• The Great Exhibition: A Documentary History
• Jews in the Americas, 1621–1826
• Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part IV: John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hill Green, William Morris and Walter Bagehot by their Contemporaries
• The Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson
• Marriage and its Dissolution in Early Modern England
• The Political Writings of the 1790s
• The Political and Philosophical Writings of William Godwin
• The Religious and Didactic Writings of Daniel Defoe
• The Selected Writings of Andrew Lang
• Spiritualism, Mesmerism and the Occult, 1800–1920
• The History of Suicide in England, 1650–1850
• The Letters of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza
• Thomas Paine and America, 1776–1809

Monographs

• Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human Nature
• Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society
• Anatomy and the Organization of Knowledge, 1500–1850
• Angels and Belief in England, 1480–1700
• Church-State Relations in the Early American Republic, 1787–1846
• The Cosmopolitan Ideal in the Age of Revolution and Reaction, 1776–1832
• Diabolism in Colonial Peru, 1560–1750
• Dialogue, Didacticism and the Genres of Dispute: Literary Dialogues in the Age of Revolution
• English Catholics and the Education of the Poor, 1847–1902
• The English Deists: Studies in Early Enlightenment
• Enlightenment and Modernity: The English Deists and Reform
• The Enlightenment World 1–10
• Free Will and the Human Sciences in Britain, 1870–1910
• The Historiography of the Chemical Revolution: Patterns of Interpretation in the History of Science
• Hobbes, the Scriblerians and the History of Philosophy
• Hume and the Enlightenment
• The Laudians and the Elizabethan Church: History, Conformity and Religious Identity in Post-Reformation England
• Militant Protestantism and British Identity, 1603–1642
• Missionary Education and Empire in Late Colonial India, 1860–1920
• Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany
• Montesquieu and England: Enlightened Exchanges, 1689–1755
• Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire
• A Political Biography of John Toland
• A Political Biography of Thomas Paine
• Possession, Puritanism and Print: Darrell, Harsnett, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Exorcism Controversy
• The Religious Culture of Marian England
• Religious Space in Reformation England: Contesting the Past
• Robert and James Adam, Architects of the Age of Enlightenment
• Sacred History and National Identity: Comparisons between Early Modern Wales and Brittany
• Selling Cromwell's Wars: Media, Empire and Godly Warfare, 1650–1658
• Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 1500–1800
• Sociability and Cosmopolitanism: Social Bonds on the Fringes of the Enlightenment
• Theory and Practice in the Eighteenth Century: Writing between Philosophy and Literature
• Utilitarian Biopolitics: Bentham, Foucault and Modern Power
• Utilitarianism and the Art School in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• Visions of an Unseen World: Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth-Century England
• Winifred Holtby's Social Vision: 'Members One of Another'