Harris beyond Hermes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ESSAYS
4. Harris beyond Hermes 3
5. The Courier de l’Europe, the Gordon Riots and Trials, and the Changing Face of Anglo-French Relations 19
6. Lapdogs/Lenses: Microscopy, Narrative, and The History of Pompey the Little 45
7. Deus sive Natura: The Monistic Link of Spinoza with China 64
8. Murphy and Johnson: Prolegomenon to a New Edition 86
9. SPECIAL FEATURE. The Achievements of John Dennis
10. Introduction to Special Feature 107
11. “A Separate Ministry”: Dennis, Drury Lane, and Opposition Politics 129
12. “Naked Majesty”: The Occasional Sublime and Miltonic Whig History of John Dennis, Poet 154
13. Anatomy of a Pan: John Dennis’s Annotated Copy of Blackmore’s Prince Arthur 181
14. My Enemy’s Enemy: Dennis, Pope, and Edmund Curll 201
15. Ovid Made English: Dennis’s Translation of The Passion of Byblis 217
16. BOOK REVIEWS
17. Catherine Ingrassia, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Women’s Writing in Britain, 1660–1789 239
18. Stephen Gaukroger, The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1739–1841 244
19. Malcolm Jack, To the Fairest Cape: European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope 248
20. Nan Goodman, The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination 252
21. Christopher J. Berry, The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment 255
22. Stewart Pollens, Stradivari 258
23. Paul Prescott, Reviewing Shakespeare: Journalism and Performance from the Eighteenth Century to the Present 260
24. Jonathan I. Israel, Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750–1790 263
25. Andrew Janiak and Eric Schliesser, eds., Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays 266
26. Geordan Hammond, John Wesley in America: Restoring Primitive Christianity 270
27. Geordan Hammond and David Ceri Jones, eds., George Whitefield: Life, Context, and Legacy 273
28. Felix Waldmann, ed., Further Letters of David Hume 276
29. Henry Hitchings, The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters, or, Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life 278
30. Ian Woodfield, Performing Operas for Mozart: Impresarios, Singers and Troupes 281
31. Stephen Rumph, Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics 287
32. Susan Carlile, Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind 292
33. Antoine Quatremère de Quincy, Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities from Rome and Athens, introduction by Dominique Poulot, translation by Chris Miller and David Gilks 295
34. Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith, eds., The Oxford Companion to the Brontës, Anniversary Edition 301
35. About the Contributors 305