Description
A survey of influential thinkers and their ideas in eighteenth-century British philosophy, science, religion, history, law, and economics.
About the Author
Frans De Bruyn is Professor Emeritus at the Department of English, University of Ottawa. He is the author of The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke (1996), co-editor (with Shaun Regan) of The Culture of the Seven Years' War: Empire, Identity, and the Arts in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (2014), and most recently co-author (with Joyce Goggin) of Comedy and Crisis: Pieter Langendijk, the Dutch, and the Speculative Bubbles of 1720 (2020).
Reviews
'This fine collection of essays should be in the hands of specialists working on the 18th century. The volume comprises four long, substantive essays on philosophy, science, politics, and religion and four briefer essays on 'emerging' areas of inquiry-history, economics, aesthetics, and sensibility ... One can read these essays as separate treatments on distinct subjects, but there also is great value to reading the book as a whole ... Highly recommended.' J. A. Jaffe, Choice Connect
Book Information
ISBN 9781107442917
Author Frans De Bruyn
Format Paperback
Page Count 290
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 430g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 150mm * 16mm