The Enlightenment World

Political and Intellectual History of the Long Eighteenth Century

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This series features monographs that take an innovative and challenging look at the political and intellectual history of the Enlightenment period.

The richness of the Enlightenment experience makes it a significant topic for study. It had a profound impact on nearly every aspect of life during the long eighteenth century and many of its values are familiar to modern society. Some of the key themes that this series embraces include the scientific revolution; philosophical origins and progress of the Enlightenment; high and popular culture; the political impact of the Enlightenment; and its comparative impact in a broad European context.

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Readership

Many scholars throughout the world are actively engaged in studying, researching, and teaching the Enlightenment period. The broad implications of the Enlightenment movement means that works published in the series will have a multi-disciplinary approach. Scholars in History, Political Studies, Political Science, Political Thought, English Literature, Religion, and Philosophy will find the works of interest.

Editorial board

Michael T Davis is a Senior Lecturer in Humanities at the University of Tasmania. He is editor of Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775–1848 (2000); London Corresponding Society (Pickering & Chatto, 2002); Newgate in Revolution: An Anthology of Radical Prison Literature in the Age of Revolution (2005) (with Iain McCalman and Christina Parolin); Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform (2008) (with Paul A Pickering); and Terror: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism in Europe, 1605 to the Future (2008) (with Brett Bowden).

Jack Fruchtman, Jr, is at the Department of Political Science, Towson University, where he teaches on constitutional law and legal theory. He has published widely, including The Apocalyptic Politics of Richard Price and Joseph Priestley (1983), Thomas Paine and the Religion of Nature (1993) and Atlantic Cousins: Benjamin Franklin and His Visionary Friends (2005). He has edited Helen Maria Williams’s eyewitness account of the French Revolution (1997) and served as associate editor for history, politics, and philosophy of Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837 (1997).

Iain McCalman is a specialist in British and European cultural history of the late Enlightenment period. He is author of Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries and Pornographers in London , 1795-1840 (1988); editor of An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832 (1999); author of The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro (2003); co-editor of The Enlightenment World (2004); and editor of Newgate in Revolution: An Anthology of Radical Prison Literature in the Age of Revolution (2005) (with Michael T Davis and Christina Parolin). He has served as President of the Australian Academy of Humanities and Director of the Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, and is currently a Federation Fellow. He is based at the University of Sydney.

Paul A Pickering is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University. His publications include Chartism and the Chartists in Manchester and Salford (1995); The People's Bread: A History of the Anti-Corn Law League (2000) (with Alex Tyrrell); Friends of the People: Uneasy Radicals in the Age of the Chartists (2003) (with Owen Ashton); Contested Sites: Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain (with Alex Tyrrell) (2004); and Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform (2008) (with Michael T Davis).

Hideo Tanaka is at Kyoto University.

Published titles

• Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human Nature
• Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society
• Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism
• The Cosmopolitan Ideal in the Age of Revolution and Reaction, 1776–1832
• The Edinburgh Review in the Literary Culture of Romantic Britain : Mammoth and Megalonyx
• The English Deists : Studies in Early Enlightenment
• Enlightenment and Modernity : The English Deists and Reform
• The Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Harlequin Empire : Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular Enlightenment
• John Thelwall: Radical Romantic and Acquitted Felon
• Liberating Medicine, 1720–1835
• Rhyming Reason : The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists
• The Scottish People and the French Revolution
• William Wickham, Master Spy : The Secret War against the French Revolution
• Writing the Empire : Robert Southey and Romantic Colonialism

Forthcoming titles

• British Visions of America, 1775–1820: Republican Realities

  Emma Vincent Macleod

  (May 2013)
• Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution

  Russell M Lawson

  (February 2011)
• The Language of Whiggism: Liberty and Patriotism, 1802–1830

  Kathryn Chittick

  (May 2010)
• Montesquieu and England: Enlightened Exchanges, 1689–1755

  Ursula Haskins Gonthier

  (March 2010)
• Romantic Localities: Europe Writes Place

  Editors: Christoph Bode and Jacqueline Labbe

  (June 2010)
• The Spirit of the Union: Popular Politics in Scotland

  Gordon Pentland

  (June 2011)
• The Sublime Invention: Ballooning in Europe, 1783–1820

  Michael R Lynn

  (May 2010)
• William Godwin and the Theatre

  David O'Shaughnessy

  (July 2010)

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