The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought

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).

'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

• Introduction Frans De Bruyn; 1. Philosophical Thought: Theories of Knowledge and Moral Thought Frans De Bruyn; 2. Science in the Long Eighteenth Century Sara Landreth; 3. Political and Legal Thought Nancy E. Johnson; 4. Religious Thought: The Defence of Religious Establishment Roger D. Lund; 5. Historical Thought Ruth Mack; 6. Wealth and Corruption: Eighteenth-Century Social and Economic; 7. Thought in Four Scandals Robert Sparling; 8. Literary and Aesthetic Theory Philip Smallwood; 9. Sensibility: Passion, Emotion, Affect Julie Murray.