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• Aesthetics -- History -- 18th century

• The Topography of Modernity: Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2012), by Elliott Schreiber (PDF and Epub at Cornell Open)
• The Role of the Sublime in Kant's Moral Metaphysics, by John R. Goodreau (PDF at crvp.org)

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• Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1996), by Marc Redfield (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Cities Built to Music: Aesthetic Theories of the Victorian Gothic Revival (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Michael Bright
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
• Flight From Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Steven Cassedy (HTML at UC Press)

• 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Thomas J. Harrison (HTML at UC Press)
• Revenge of the Aesthetic: The Place of Literature in Theory Today (Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Michael Clark (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Aesthetics of Paradoxism (second edition, 2002), by Titu Popescu, trans. by Florentin Smarandache, Lucian Popescu, and Paul Georgelin (PDF at UNM)
• Flight From Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Steven Cassedy (HTML at UC Press)

• Bigger Than You: Big Data and Obesity (Goleta, CA: Punctum Books, c2016), by Katherine Behar (PDF with commentary at Punctum Books)
• Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2018), by Ari Larissa Heinrich (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Amazons of the Avant-Garde (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c2000), ed. by John E. Bowlt and Matthew Drutt, illust. by Alexandra Exter, Nataliia Sergeevna Goncharova, Liubov' Sergeevna Popova, Ol'ga Vladimirovna Rozanova, Varvara Fedorovna Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udal'tsova (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931 (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2002), by Gennifer S. Weisenfeld (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Chic Ironic Bitterness (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by R. Jay Magill (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century, by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg text)

• Ann Radcliffe in Relation to Her Time (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920), by Clara Frances McIntyre (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Sublime: A Study of Critical Theories in XVIII-Century England (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1935), by Samuel Holt Monk (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Role of the Sublime in Kant's Moral Metaphysics, by John R. Goodreau (PDF at crvp.org)

• The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy (originally published 1995; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Ronald Paulson (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Sublime: A Study of Critical Theories in XVIII-Century England (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1935), by Samuel Holt Monk (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Aesthetic Thought of the French Enlightenment (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1971), by Francis X. J. Coleman (page images at Pitt)
• The Genius of Architecture; or, The Analogy of That Art with Our Sensations (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1992), by Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Robin Middleton (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Romantic Antiquarianism (2014), ed. by Noah Heringman and Crystal B. Lake (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Circulations: Romanticism and the Black Atlantic (2011), ed. by Paul Youngquist and Frances R. Botkin (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (c2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard (PDF at Toronto)

• Poems on Several Occasions (London: Printed by T. Browne for the author, 1733), by Mary Masters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs in the Night, by a Young Woman Under Heavy Afflictions (first American edition, from the fourth London edition, with supplement; Exeter, NH: Printed by H. Ranlet for A. March, 1802), by Susannah Harrison (multiple formats at archive.org)

• German Rationalism, In Its Rise, Progress, and Decline, In Relation To Theologians, Scholars, Poets, Philosophers, and the People: A Contribution to the Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1865), by K. R. Hagenbach, ed. by William Leonard Gage and J. H. W. Stuckenberg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• German Rationalism, In Its Rise, Progress, and Decline, In Relation To Theologians, Scholars, Poets, Philosophers, and the People: A Contribution to the Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (New York: C. Scribner, 1865), by K. R. Hagenbach, ed. by William Leonard Gage and J. H. W. Stuckenberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), ed. by Ferenc Feher (HTML at UC Press)

• Exploring the Interior: Essays on Literary and Cultural History (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Karl Siegfried Guthke (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Orchesography: or, The Art of Dancing (first edition), by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, trans. by John Weaver
  • page images at pbm.com
  • Gutenberg illustrated HTML
• Orchesography: or, The Art of Dancing (second edition, 1715), by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, trans. by John Weaver (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Essays on I. Moral Sentiments; II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysics; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian Verses (London: A. Murray and Co., 1872), by Adam Smith, ed. by James Hutton and Joseph Black
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• The Spectator: A New Edition, Reproducing the Original Text Both As First Issued and As Corrected by its Authors (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1891), by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, ed. by Henry Morley
  • Gutenberg text
  • searchable DjVu at Rutgers
• The Tatler (reprinted edition of the serial founded in 1709, in 4 volumes; New York: Hadley and Mathews, 1899), by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, ed. by George Atherton Aitken (searchable DjVu at Rutgers)
• Critical Essays of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1725 (1915), ed. by W. H. Durham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on Philosophical Subjects, by the Late Adam Smith, LL.D., Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, &c., &c.; To Which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1795), by Adam Smith, ed. by James Hutton and Joseph Black, contrib. by Dugald Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)

• Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (c2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard (PDF at Toronto)
• Eighteenth Century Literature (New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1929), ed. by Richard Foster Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New Foundling Hospital for Wit: Being a Collection of Fugitive Pieces, in Prose and Verse, Not in Any Other Collection; With Several Pieces Never Before Published (new edition, 6 volumes; London: J. Debrett, 1786), ed. by John Almon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on Various Subjects, by the Author of Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for J. and F. Rivington, 1772), by Catherine Talbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Foundling Hospital for Wit (6 volumes originally published 1743-1749), ed. by Charles Hanbury-Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Merry-Thought: or, The Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany (4 parts reprinted with new introductions in 2 volumes, 1982-1983), ed. by Hurlothrumbo, contrib. by George Robert Guffey and Maximillian E. Novak
  • Part 1: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Parts 2-4: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• British War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism, 1793-1815 (online edition, with a new bibliography of additional poems; 2004), ed. by Betty T. Bennett and Orianne Smith (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• English Poets of the Eighteenth Century, ed. by Ernest Bernbaum (Gutenberg text)
• Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions (London: Printed for John Barber and Sold by Benj. Tooke, William Taylor, and James Round, 1713), by Anne Kingsmill Finch Winchilsea (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Poems (third edition, corrected; London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1773), by Mrs. Barbauld (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Poems, by Mrs. M. Robinson (London: J. Bell, 1791), by Mary Darby Robinson (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Poetical Amusements at a Villa Near Bath (second edition, 2 volumes (later editions had more); London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly, 1776), ed. by Anna Riggs Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of Each (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1852), by William Collins, Thomas Gray, and James Beattie (page images at MOA)
• Selected works and commentary, by Mrs. Barbauld (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Academia: or, The Humours of the University of Oxford in Burlesque Verse (London: Randal Taylor, 1691), by Alicia D'Anvers (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• A Hymn of Praise For the Abundant Harvest of 1796 (London: J. Marshall, printer to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts, 1796), by Hannah More
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Poems on Several Occasions; Together with The Song of the Three Children Paraphras'd (London: Printed by W. B. for Bernard Lintott, 1703), by Mary Lee Chudleigh
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Foundling Hospital for Wit (6 volumes originally published 1743-1749), ed. by Charles Hanbury-Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems by the Most Eminent Ladies of Great Britain and Ireland: Re-Published From the Collection of G. Colman and B. Thornton, Esqrs., With Considerable Alterations, Additions, and Improvements (2 volumes; London: W. Stafford, n.d.), ed. by George Colman and Bonnell Thornton, contrib. by Mary Barber, Aphra Behn, Frances Brooke, Elizabeth Carter, Mary Lee Chudleigh, Catharine Trotter, Constantia Grierson, Mary Jones, Anne Killigrew, Mary Leapor, Mary Masters, Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Monck, Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, Katherine Philips, Laetitia Pilkington, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, and Anne Kingsmill Finch Winchilsea (page images at HathiTrust)

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