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• New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life
• Intellectual life -- 18th century

• Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), by Bryan Waterman (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

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• Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Neil Jumonville (HTML at UC Press)
• The New York of the Novelists (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1916), by Arthur Bartlett Maurice (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Day in Bohemia, or Life Among the Artists, by John Reed (HTML at swbell.net)

• The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles Scruggs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2010), by James F. Wilson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The Big Sea (c1940), by Langston Hughes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The New Yorker (partial serial archives)

• Disquisitions on Several Subjects (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1782), by Soame Jenyns
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Constructing the Criollo Archive: Subjects of Knowledge in the Bibliotheca Mexicana and the Rusticatio Mexicana (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2000), by Antony Higgins (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken: The Church of England and its Enemies, 1660-1730 (c1992), by Justin Champion (HTML at Newton Project; sections may be listed out of order)
• A Woman of Wit and Wisdom: A Memoir of Elizabeth Carter, One of the "Bas Bleu" Society (1717-1806) (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1906), by Alice C. C. Gaussen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Die Europaidee im Zeitalter der Aufklärung (in German; Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Rotraud von Kulessa and Catriona Seth (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Idea of Europe: Enlightenment Perspectives (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Catriona Seth and Rotraud von Kulessa (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• L'Idée de l'Europe au Siècle des Lumières (in French; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Rotraud von Kulessa and Catriona Seth (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Tolerance: The Beacon of the Enlightenment (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), ed. by Caroline Warman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• French Inventions of the Eighteenth Century (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, c1952), by Shelby T. McCloy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literature and History in the Age of Ideas: Essays on the French Enlightenment, Presented to George R. Havens (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1975), ed. by Charles G. S. Williams (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968), by Robert Darnton
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Creative Commons reprint; multiple formats at archive.org

• Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770-1815 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2014), by Matt Erlin (Epub and PDF at Cornell Open)

• William Stukeley: Science, Religion, and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century England (c2002), by David Boyd Haycock (HTML at Newton Project; sections may be listed out of order)
• Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Jasper Albert Cragwall (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Woman of Wit and Wisdom: A Memoir of Elizabeth Carter, One of the "Bas Bleu" Society (1717-1806) (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1906), by Alice C. C. Gaussen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Early Kentucky Literature, 1750-1840 (second edition; Frankfort: Kentucky State Historical Society, 1932), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Kentucky Literature, 1750-1840 (first edition; Frankfort: Kentucky State Historical Society, 1931), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Men of Letters in Colonial Maryland (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1972), by J. A. Leo Lemay (PDF at Tennessee)

• Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780-1835 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1989), by William J. Gilmore-Lehne (PDF at Tennessee)

• The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800 (Main Currents in American Thought v1; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1927), by Vernon Louis Parrington (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A History of American Literature, 1607-1765 (2 volumes; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1880), by Moses Coit Tyler
  • Volume I (1607-1676): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1676-1765): multiple formats at archive.org

• Intellectual Life in Jefferson's Virginia, 1790-1830 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1964), by Richard Beale Davis (PDF at Tennessee)