Reviews/Comptes Rendus

Abstract

Vivasvan Soni, Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity, reviewed by Neil Saccamano Paul Pelckmans, Le Probleme de l’incroyance au xviiie siecle, reviewed by Critique littéraire par Mladen Kozul Patrick Coleman, Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer, reviewed by Caroline Jacot Grapa Richard Adelman, Idleness, Contemplation and the Aesthetic, 1750–1830, reviewed by Nancy Kendrick Minsoo Kang, Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination, reviewed by Alex Wetmore Christopher J. Lukasik, Discerning Characters: The Culture of Appearance in Early America, reviewed by Jordan Alexander Stein Cheryl L. Nixon, The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature: Estate, Blood, and Body, reviewed by Patricia Whiting éd. Patrice Bret et Brigitte Van Tiggelen, préface d’Élisabeth Badinter, Madame d’Arconville: Une femme de lettres et de sciences au siècle des Lumières, reviewed by Éliane Viennot Jane Austen, ed. Robert Morrison, Persuasion: An Annotated Edition, reviewed by Sarah Raff Daniel Defoe, ed. G.A. Starr and Linda Bree, Moll Flanders, reviewed by Lee Kahan Ellen R. Welch, A Taste for the Foreign: Worldly Knowledge and Literary Pleasure in Early Modern French Fiction, reviewed by Paul J. Young Pierre Saint-Amand, trad. Jennifer Curtiss Gage The Pursuit of Laziness: An Idle Interpretation of the Enlightenment, reviewed by Mitia Rioux-Beaulne