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The Protestant Whore reveals the recurring connection between sexual impropriety and religious heterodoxy in Restoration thought, and Nell Gwyn, writ large as the nation's Protestant Whore, is shown to be a significant figure of sexual, political, and religious controversy.

This study undertakes a new definition of the 18th-century novel’s investment in visual culture, tracing the relationship between the development of the novel and that of the portrait, particularly as represented in the novel itself.

Imagining Religious Toleration is a contributed volume that examines how literary modes were used to influence cultural understandings of tolerance and coexistence over the course of two hundred years.

Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century’s two predominant approaches to the natural world in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the third Earl of Shaftesbury and Denis Diderot.