Edgeworth’s first novel and an immediate success. Scott, in his postscript to the original edition of Waverley, described his aim as being “in some distant degree to emulate the admirable Irish portraits drawn by Miss Edgeworth.”

Translated in 1848 as the The Vocation of Man.

Elizabeth Hamilton’s (1758-1816) second novel, published in three volumes, quickly went through a number of editions. The anti-heroine, Bridgetina Botherim, represents Mary Hays; one of Hamilton’s most effective satirical techniques is to put Godwin’s literal words into the mouth of Vallaton, the seducer of Julie Delmond. The objects of Elizabeth Hamilton’s satire seem chiefly to have been the extremists of the modern philosophers, among whom she did not include Mary Wollstonecraft. The introduction is signed “Geoffry Jarvis”, a pseudonym used by Elizabeth Hamilton.

Hamilton describes contemporary philosophers as “men who, without much knowledge, either moral or natural, entertain a high idea of their own superiority from having the temerity to reject whatever has the sanction of experience and common sense.”

A critical review of Kant's aesthetics.

The Handbook was edited by Jäsche.

Maréchal was a disciple of Holbach.

Hymns to the Night, prose lyrics inspired by death of Novalis’ fiancée, was translated in 1889.

Influential work that was translated into English, Spanish, and German soon after publication.

Les Crimes de l’amour consists of four volumes of short stories with an essay on the novel.

Atala established Chateaubriand’s literary reputation.

Collection of Cobbett’s American works published in 12 volumes.

Published between 1801 and 1815.

Society novel admired by Jane Austen.

In 1800, Hegel went to Jena, where Schelling had succeeded Fichte as professor of philosophy. Hegel was accepted as a teacher at Jena on the strength of his dissertation, De Orbitis Planetarum, 1801. “This was also the period of close and regular collaboration between Schelling and Hegel, who arrived in Jena in 1801. For the next two years the two were allied in a collaborative effort to explicate and to defend the new System of Identity. In pursuit of this goal, they founded and co-wrote the entire contents of a short-lived new Critical Journal of Philosophy. During this same period the rift between Schelling and Fichte - a rift which originally arose over Fichte’s misgivings at Schelling’s efforts to ‘supplement’ transcendental philosophy with Naturphilosophie and then turned into a more general disagreement concerning the nature and limits of philosophy itself - became permanent and public.” The Age of German Idealism, edited R.C. Solomon and K.M. Higgins, pp.162/3.

"According to Roy Porter, ""a veritable enlightenment omnium gatherum"", which, in 3 volumes, gave advice on poverty, prisoners, fevers, a Samaritan society, crimes and punishments, wills and testaments, charities, the blind, religious persecution, etc."

A seminal work in the history of psychiatry

Saint-Martin's final work, published a year before he died.

A satire later adapted for the stage.

Published in three volumes.

Cabanis defended a mechanistic materialism. He attended the Comte de Mirabeau in his final illness as friend and physician. He also moved in the company of Diderot, d’Alembert, Condorcet, Condillac and Holbach and knew Franklin and Jefferson during their stay in Paris.

Translated into English as The Genius of Christianity in 1856.

Chateaubriand assertion that Christianity was morally and aesthetically superior to other religions had a profound influence within religious and literary circles of his time. With the aim of Romanticizing Catholicism, it appeared six days after the ratification of Napoleon’s Concordat with the Vatican and four days before the great bell of Notre Dame for the first time in ten years called the faithful to mass. As a result Chateaubriand was awarded a diplomatic appointment in Rome.

In his later years Chateaubriand - he died in 1848 - wrote his celebrated autobiography, Mémoires d’outre-tombe (Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb), which was not published in full until 1902.

Launch of a journal by William Cobbett.

Essay co-authored with Maria Edgeworth.

The Ballads were published with engravings by Blake.

Hegel edited the Critical Journal with Schelling.

Article printed in the Critical Journal of Philosopy.

Published between 1802 and 1803.

Unfinished novel published posthumously, a translation appeared in 1802.

A work that became the standard exposition of the teleological argument that greatly influenced Darwin and was universally accepted until Darwin’s own work undermined it. Paley based his work on John Ray’s The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of Creation (1691), with material derived from the anatomists of Paris and medical literature.

After its first publication by subscription in 1802, the rights were sold to Richard Edwards, Bristol bookseller. Edwards published a revised and enlarged second edition in 1803. The work met with much success, with four editions in England and two in the United States before a fifth edition with additions was published in 1831. Drew (1765-1833), who in early life was involved in smuggling, became known as the “Cornish metaphysician”; he also wrote Remarks on the first part of a Book written by Thomas Paine, entitled ‘The Age of Reason’, and a history of Cornwall.

Goethe's last classical drama was intended as a response to the French Revolution.

A six volume celebratation of the lives of women.

Published in the Critical Journal

Posthumous and Beccaria’s most important work on economics in which he investigated the division of labour and in which his arguments on population anticipated some of the ideas of Malthus.

Written in 1795.

Published in three volumes.

Fries aimed to establish a new basis for Kantian critical philosophy and to reconcile criticism of Kant to Jacobi' s religious philosophy.

Published in Leipzig, translated by Goethe under the title Rameaus Neffe. It appeared in France in 1821, when it was translated back from Goethe’s German. Goethe found Diderot’s novel “more audacious and contenue, more full of brilliance and impudence, more immorally moral” than anything he could have expected to read.

Published by Mary Wollstonecraft's publisher and friend, Joseph Johnson, a radical Dissenter, who has become known as the founder of the English book trader

Potocki began work on the Manuscript in 1797, it was his only novel, and he worked on it intermittently until his suicide in 1815. Fragments of the novel were published in St Petersburg in 1805, and in Paris in 1813 and 1814.

Collection contains Jane Taylor's poem "Star," which begins "Twinkle, twinkle, little star . . ."

Second edition, enlarged. Edinburgh: printed for Mundell and son; and sold in London by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme ... 1806. 220 pp; first published anonymously the previous year, and comprising only 46 pages.

Printed privately and immediately suppressed when the Rev. John Becher objects to some of the poems.

Published between 1818 and 1832.

A romantic novel.

The friend was Richard Hurd.

Issued in six volumes, the first three in 1809 and the second three in 1812. The Absentee, one of her best works, appeared in 1812 and depicts the evils of the system of absentee landlords.

Written originally as a short story between 29 May 1808 and the end of July. In April 1809 Goethe decided to expand the story and completed the final version on 4 October. It was published by Gotta in two volumes.

Posthumous publication.

Posthumous publication.

Goethe's unsuccessful attempt to overturn Newtonian optics.

De Maistre regarded the French Revolution as divine punishment for France’s acceptance of the anti-Christian Enlightenment.