#18th-century engravings

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“Sublime Luxuries” of the Gothic Edifice: Immersive Aesthetics and Kantian Freedom in the Novels of Ann Radcliffe, pp. 713-738, by Kristin M. Girten
See above some illustrations from Ann Radcliffe’s (1764-1823) gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolph (1794), and at the bottom a caricature of the ladies who read such gothic novels in the late 18th century.

Other articles:
Fear, Liberty, and Honourable Death in Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, pp. 623-644, by Megan Gallagher

“A Reformation so much wanted”: Clarissa’s Glorious Shame, pp. 645-666, by Ailsa Kay

“Give Me the Consideration of Being the Bondsman”: Embarrassment and the Figure of the Bond in the Sentimental Fiction of Samuel Richardson, pp. 667-690, by Greg Morgan

The Abbé Mallet’s Unsigned Contribution to the Encyclopédie, pp. 691-712, by Reginald McGinnis

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