Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

by Roy Porter

  ———, ‘John Hunter: A Showman in Society’, The Transactions of the Hunterian Society (1993–4), 19–24

  ———, ‘Visiting London’, in M. S. Moretti (ed.), Il Senso del Nonsenso: Scritti in Memoria di Lynn Salkin Sbiroli (Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1994), 93–108

  ———, ‘Medical Science and Human Science in the Enlightenment’, in C. Fox, R. Porter and R. Wokler (eds.), Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth Century Domains (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995), 53–87

  ———, ‘The People's Health in Georgian England’, in Tim Harris (ed.), Popular Culture in England c. 1500–1850 (London: Macmillan, 1995), 124–42

  ———, ‘Forbidden Pleasures: Enlightenment Literature of Sexual Advice’, in Paula Bennett and Vernon A. Rosario II (eds.), Solitary Pleasures: The Historical, Literary and Artistic Discourses of Autoeroticism (New York and London: Routledge, 1995), 75–100

  ———, ‘Accidents in the Eighteenth Century’, in Roger Cooter and Bill Luckin (eds.), Accidents in History: Injuries, Fatalities and Social Relations (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996), 90–106

  ———, ‘Capital Art: Hogarth's London’, in F. Ogée (ed.), The Dumb Show. Image and Society in the Works of William Hogarth (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation: Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 1997), 47–64

  ———, ‘The New Eighteenth-century Social History’, in Jeremy Black (ed.), Culture and Society in Britain 1660–1800 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997), 29–50

  ———, ‘Madness and the Family before Freud: The Views of the Mad Doctors’, Journal of Family History, xxiii (1998), 159–72

  ———, ‘Reading: A Health Warning’, in Robin Myers and Michael Harris (eds.), Medicine, Mortality and the Booktrade (Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1999), 131–52

  ———, ‘The Malthusian Moment’, in Brian Dolan (ed.), Malthus, Medicine and Morality: ‘Malthusianism’ After 1798 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000), 57–72

  ———, ‘The Soul and the English Enlightenment’, in Duncan Salkeld (ed.), The History of the Soul (forthcoming)

  Roy Porter and Lesley Hall, The Facts of Life: The History of Sexuality and Knowledge from the Seventeenth Century (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1994)

  Roy Porter and Michael Neve, ‘Alexander Catcott: Glory and Geology’, The British Journal for the History of Science, x (1977), 37–60

  Roy Porter and Mikuláš Teich (eds.), The Enlightenment in National Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981)

  —— (eds.), The Scientific Revolution in National Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)

  John Potter, Observations on the Present State of Music and Musicians (London: Henderson, 1762)

  Frederick A. Pottle (ed.), Boswell's London Journal, 1762–1763 (London: Heinemann, 1950)

  N. Powell, Fuseli's ‘The Nightmare’ (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1956)

  Frederick J. Powicke, The Cambridge Platonists: A Study (New York: Archon Books, 1971)

  J. R. Poynter, Society and Pauperism (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969)

  Samuel Jackson Pratt, Humanity, or, the Rights of Nature: A Poem; in Two Books/by the Author of Sympathy (London: printed for T. Cadell, 1788)

  John Valdimir Price, ‘The Reading of Philosophical Literature’, in Isabel Rivers (ed.), Books and Their Readers in Eighteenth-century England (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1982), 165–96

  Richard Price, Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles of Government, and the Justice and Policy of the War with America (London: T. Cadell, 1776)

  ———, Observations on the Importance of the American American Revolution, and the Means of Making It a Benefit to the World (London: Powars and Willis, 1784)

  ———, The Evidence for a Future Period of Improvement in the State of Mankind, with the Means and Duty of Promoting It (London: Goldney, 1787)

  ———, A Discourse on the Love of Our Country (London: T. Cadell, 1789)

  Uvedale Price, Essays on the Picturesque, as Compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful; and, on the Use of Studying Pictures, for the Purpose of Improving Real Landscape, 3 vols. (London: J. Mawman, 1810)

  Joseph Priestley, The Rudiments of English Grammar (London: Griffiths, 1761; Menston: Scolar, 1969)

  ———, The Scripture Doctrine of Remission (London: P. F. C. Henderson, 1761)

  ———, A Chart of Biography (London: J. Johnson, 1765)

  ———, An Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life;… To Which are Added Remarks on a Code of Education, Proposed by Dr Brown, in a Late Treatise, Intitled, Thoughts on Civil Liberty, &c. (London: c. Henderson, 1765)

  ———, The History and Present State of Electricity, with Original Experiments (London: J. Dodsley, 1767)

  ———, An Essay on the First Principles of Government; and on the Nature of Political, Civil, and Religious Liberty (London: J. Dodsley; T. Cadell; J. Johnson, 1768)

  ———, A Sermon on Behalf of the Leeds Informary Preached at Mill Hill Chapel (Leek: sn, 1768)

  ———, New Chart of History (London: J. Johnson, 1769)

  ———, A View of the Principles and Conduct of the Protestant Dissenters with Respect to the Civil and Ecclesiastical Constitution of England (London: J. Johnson, 1769)

  ——, Remarks on Some Paragraphs in the Fourth Volume of Dr Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, Relating to the Dissenters (London: J. Johnson and J. Payne, 1769)

  ———, An Essay on the First Principles of Government (1771), in John Towill Rutt (ed.), The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley, 25 vols. in 26 (London: Smallfield, 1817–32), vol. xxii

  ———, The History of the Present State of the Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours (London: J. Johnson, 1772)

  ———, An Examination of Dr Reid's Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Commonsense, Dr Beattie's Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, and Dr Oswald's Appeal to Common Sense on Behalf of Religion (London: J. Johnson, 1774)

  ———, Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air (London: J. Johnson, 1774–7)

  [———], An Appeal to the Serious and Candid Professors of Christianity… by a Lover of the Gospel (London: J. Johnson, 1775)

  ———, Hartley's Theory of the Human Mind On the Principle of the Association of Ideas; With Essays Relating to the Subject of It (London: J. Johnson, 1775)

  ———, Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism (London: J. Johnson, 1777)

  ———, The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated: Being an Appendix to the Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit; To Which is Added an Answer to the Letters on Materialism, and on Hartley's Theory of the Mind (London: J. Johnson, 1777)

  ———, Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit, 2 vols. (London: J. Johnson, 1777)

  ———, Miscellaneous Observations Relating to Education: More Especially, as It Respects the Conduct of the Mind. To Which is Added, an Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life (London: J. Johnson, 1778)

  ———, A Free Address to Those Who-Have Petitioned for the Repeal of the Late Act of Parliament in Favour of the Roman Catholics (London: J. Johnson, 1780)

  ———, Additional Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever, in Answer to Mr William Hammon [i.e. Matthew Turner] (Birmingham: Pearson and Rollason, 1782)

  ———, The Importance and Extent of Free Inquiry in Matters of Religion: A Sermon (Birmingham: sn, 1785)

  ———, An History of Early Opinions Concerning Jesus Christ, Compiled from Original Writers; Proving that the Christian Church was at First Unitarian (Birmingham: Pearson and Rollason, 1786)

  ———, Letter to the Right Honourable William Pitt (London: Johnson, 1787)

  ——, Lectures on History and General Policy: To Which is Prefixed, An Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life (Birmin
gham: Pearson and Rollason, 1788)

  ———, Letters to Edmund Burke Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France, &c. (Birmingham: Thomas Pearson, 1791)

  ———, Proper Objects of Education in the Present State of the World: Represented in a Discourse, Delivered on Wednesday, the 27th of April, 1791, at the Meeting-House in the Old-Jewry, London to the Supporters of New College at Hackney by Joseph Priestley. To Which is Subjoined, a Prayer… by Thomas Belsham (London: J. Johnson, 1791)

  [—], A Political Dialogue on the General Principles of Government (London: Johnson, 1791)

  ———, Familiar Letters Addressed to the Inhabitants of the Town of Birmingham in Refutation of Several Charges Advanced against the Dissenters and Unitarians, by the Revd Mr Madan: Also, Letters to the Revd Edward Burn… and Considerations of the Differences of Opinion among Christians, Which Originally Accompanied the Reply to the Revd Mr Venn (Birmingham: J. Thompson, 1790–92)

  ———, Lectures on History, 2 vols. (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1793)

  Joseph Priestley, The Doctrines of Heathen Religion Compared with Those of Revelation (Northumberland: John Binns, 1804)

  ———, An History of the Corruptions of Christianity (London: The British and Foreign Unitarian Association, 1871 [1782])

  ———, Lecture on History and General Policy To Which is Prefixed, An Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life, 4th edn (London: T. Tegg, 1826 [1788])

  ———, Discourses Relating to the Evidences of Revealed Religion, 3 vols. (London: Johnson, 1794–9)

  ——, Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberland (Northumberland: for the author, 1801)

  ———, Memoirs of Dr Joseph Priestley, Written on Himself (London: Allenson, 1904 [1795])

  ———, Political Writings, Peter N. Miller (ed.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)

  Joseph Priestley and Richard Price, A Free Discussion of the Doctrines of Materialism and Philosophical Necessity (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1994 [1778])

  Michael Prince, Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment: Theology, Aesthetics, and the Novel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)

  David Punter, The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1785 to the Present Day (London: Longman, 1980)

  Diane Purkiss, The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth Century Representations (London: Routledge, 1996)

  Andrew Pyle (ed.), Population: Contemporary Responses to Thomas Malthus (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1994)

  Peter Quennell, The Pursuit of Happiness (London: Constable, 1988)

  Maurice J. Quinlan, Victorian Prelude: A History of English Manners, 1700–1830 (London: Cass, 1941)

  ———, Samuel Johnson: A Layman's Religion (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964)

  Karlis Racevskis, Postmodernism and the Search for Enlightenment (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1993)

  John B. Radner, ‘The Youthful Harlot's Curse: The Prostitute as Symbol of the City in Eighteenth-century English Literature’, Eighteenth-Century Life, ii (1976), 59–64

  James Ralph, The Case of Authors by Profession or Trade, Stated with Regard to Booksellers, the Stage and the Public (London: R. Griffiths, 1758)

  D. D. Raphael, ‘Adam Smith: Philosophy, Science, and Social Science’, in S. C. Brown (ed.), Philosophers of the Enlightenment (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1979), 77–93

  Frederick Raphael, Byron (London: Thames and Hudson, 1982)

  S. Rashid, ‘Dugald Stewart, Baconian Methodology and Political Economy’, Journal of the History of Ideas, xlvi (1985), 245–7

  James Raven, Judging New Wealth: Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce in England 1750–1800 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992)

  ———, ‘From Promotion to Proscription: Arrangements for Reading and Eighteenth-century Libraries’, in James Raven, Helen Small and Naomi Tadmor (eds.), The Practice and Representation of Reading in England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 175–201

  James Raven, Helen Small and Naomi Tadmore (eds.), The Practice and Representation of Reading in England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)

  Claude Rawson, Satire and Sentiment 1660–1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)

  Elizabeth Rawson, The Spartan Tradition in European Thought (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969)

  John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation (London: Samuel Smith, 1691)

  Barry Reay (ed.), Popular Culture in Seventeenth-century England (London: Croom Helm, 1985)

  Bruce Redford, ‘Boswell's “Libertine” Correspondences’, Philological Quarterly, lxiii (1984), 55–73

  ———, The Converse of the Pen: Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth-century Familiar Letter (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1986)

  John Redwood, Reason, Ridicule and Religion: The Age of Enlightenment in England, 1660-1750 (London: Thames & Hudson, 1976; repr. 1996)

  Jonathan Rée, I See a Voice: Language, Deafness and the Senses: A Philosophical History (London: HarperCollins, 1999)

  Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences… Biography, Geography and History, 39 vols. (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819)

  Clara Reeve, The School for Widows: A Novel (London: Hookham, 1791)

  Thomas Reid, An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (Dublin: Ewing, 1764)

  ———, The Works of Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (ed.), 2 vols. with continuous pagination (Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart, 1846–63; Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1995)

  ———, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (Edinburgh: sn, 1785)

  Jane Rendall, The Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment (London: Macmillan, 1978)

  Neil Rennie, Far-fetched Facts: The Literature of Travel and the Idea of the South Seas (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)

  Humphry Repton, Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (London: T. Bensley and Sons, 1816)

  Myra Reynolds, The Learned Lady in England 1650–1760 (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1920)

  Alan Richardson, Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice, 1780–1832 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)

  Ruth Richardson, Death, Dissection and the Destitute: A Political History of the Human Corpse (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987)

  Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (London: Richardson, 1748)

  ———, Pamela, in Works, Leslie Stephen (ed.), 12 vols. (London: Southeran, 1883–4 [1740–41])

  ———, Pamela, Peter Sabor (ed.) (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980 [1740–41])

  John J. Richetti, Popular Fiction Before Richardson: Narrative Patterns, 1700–1789 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969; repr. 1992)

  Harriet Ritvo, The Animal Estate (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987)

  ———, ‘Possessing Mother Nature. Genetic Capital’, in John Brewer and Susan Staves (eds.), Early Modern Conceptions of Property (London: Routledge, 1995), 414–26

  Isabel Rivers (ed.), Books and Their Readers in Eighteenth-century England (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1982)

  Caroline Robbins, The Eighteenth-century Commonwealthmen: Studies in the Transmission, Development and Circumstances of English Liberal Thought from the Restoration of Charles II until the War with the Thirteen Colonies (New York: Atheneum, 1968)

  H. C. Robbins-Landon, Handel and His World (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984)

  Marie Mulvey Roberts, ‘Pleasures Engendered by Gender: Homosociality and the Club’, in Roy Porter and Marie Mulvey Roberts (eds.), Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century (London: Macmillan, 1996), 48–76

  W. Roberts (ed.), Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs Hannah More, 4 vols. (London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1834)

  John Robertson, ‘The Scottish Enlightenment at the Limits of the Civic Tradition’, in Istvan Hont and Michael Ignatieff
(eds.), Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 137–78

  ——.), A Union for Empire: Political Thought and the British Union of 1707 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)

  ——— (ed.), Andrew Fletcher: Political Works (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)

  William Robertson, Works, 8 vols. (Edinburgh: T. Cadell, 1840)

  Howard Robinson, The British Post Office: A History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1948)