Nathan Gorelick traces literary criticism and psychoanalysis to their shared origins during the 17th and 18th centuries.

He gives a rich and thorough account of the four authors he takes up, and convincingly refutes a series of common caricatures of the Enlightenment. Anyone interested in the period – whether friend or ...

This book tells the story of how the monarchy aimed at creating ... and enhanced their economic status by investing in and controlling the Buenos Aires' property market. In a short period, from 1776 ...

Gabrielle Émilie le Tonnelier-de-Breteuil, known as the Marquise du Châtelet after her marriage at age 18, was a brilliant ...

The term "Enlightenment," rooted in an intellectual skepticism to traditional beliefs and dogmas, denotes an "illumined" contrast to the supposed dark and superstitious character of the Middle Ages.

Edinburgh bibliophile Dr. William Zachs takes Paul Kennedy through his library of amazing books that were published in Scotland during the heyday of the Scottish Enlightenment. At the time ...

Châtelet’s scientific contributions were appreciated by some, then forgotten by all. But redeeming her as a mind shouldn’t undermine her as a woman.

But how did these cultural changes come about and spread in the period of fundamental change in Europe? How did the Enlightenment turn into the Industrial ... is what happened in eighteenth-century ...