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An ambitious exploration of the generic status, purpose, and consumption of the anecdote in the Enlightenment, covering five major fields of inquiry: philosophy, scientific experiment, journals of voyagers, periodical literature, and the poetry of the Lyrical Ballads. Although the anecdote is a topic that has preoccupied scholars since the onset of New Historicism, James Wood has refreshed the discussion in a manner that will appeal to younger academics intrigued by the fluidities of Epicurean materialism. Wood's argument is as extensive as it is polished. --Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt University, author of Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery Absolutely wonderful. Anecdotes of Enlightenment is a very valuable contribution to eighteenth-century British literary studies. --Jenny Davidson, Columbia University, author of Reading Jane Austen

An ambitious exploration of the generic status, purpose, and consumption of the anecdote in the Enlightenment, covering five major fields of inquiry: philosophy, scientific experiment, journals of voyagers, periodical literature, and the poetry of the Lyrical Ballads. Although anecdote is a topic that has preoccupied scholars since the onset of New Historicism, James Wood has refreshed the discussion in a manner that will appeal to younger academics intrigued by the fluidities of Epicurean materialism. Wood's argument is as extensive as it is polished. --Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt University, author of Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery

Absolutely wonderful. Anecdotes of Enlightenment is a very valuable contribution to eighteenth-century British literary studies. --Jenny Davidson, Columbia University, author of Reading Jane Austen An ambitious exploration of the generic status, purpose, and consumption of the anecdote in the Enlightenment, covering five major fields of inquiry: philosophy, scientific experiment, journals of voyagers, periodical literature, and the poetry of the Lyrical Ballads. Although the anecdote is a topic that has preoccupied scholars since the onset of New Historicism, James Wood has refreshed the discussion in a manner that will appeal to younger academics intrigued by the fluidities of Epicurean materialism. Wood's argument is as extensive as it is polished. --Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt University, author of Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery

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James Robert Wood is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of East Anglia.

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