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1800-1810

1800

William Agutter, On the difference between the deaths of the righteous and the wicked, illustrated in the instance of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and David Hume, Esq. A sermon, preached before the University of Oxford, . . . On Sunday, July 23, 1786. By the Rev. William Agutter

Louis de Bonald, Essai analytique sur les lois naturelles de l’order social

Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent
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.”

Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Bestimmung des Menschen
Translated in 1848 as the The Vocation of Man.

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis, Les mŠres rivales ou la calomnie (The Rival Mothers, or Calumny)

Elizabeth Hamilton, Memoirs of Modern Philosophers
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.”

Johann Gottfried von Herder, Kalligone
A critical review of Kant's aesthetics.

Immanuel Kant, Logic, a Handbook for Lectures
The Handbook was edited by Jäsche.

Sylvain Maréchal, Dictionnaire des athées
Maréchal was a disciple of Holbach.

Thomas Moore, Odes of Anacreon

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

Philippe Pinel, Trait‚ m‚dico-philosophique sur l'ali‚nation mental ou la manie
Influential work that was translated into English, Spanish, and German soon after publication.

Donatien Alphonse François, comte de Sade, Les Crimes de l?amour
Les Crimes de l?amour consists of four volumes of short stories with an essay on the novel.

Wilhelm Friedrich Schelling, System of Transcendental Idealism

William Smellie, Literary and characteristical lives of John Gregory, M.D. Henry Home, Lord Kames. David Hume, Esq. and Adam Smith, L.L.D. To which are added A dissertation on public spirit; and three essays. By the late William Smellie, . . .

Madame de Stael, De la litt‚rature consid‚r‚e dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales

1801

Louis de Bonald, Du divorce

William Lisle Bowles, Sorrows of Switzerland

François Auguste René Chateaubriand, Atala
Atala established Chateaubriand’s literary reputation.

William Cobbett, Porcupine’s Works
Collection of Cobbett’s American works published in 12 volumes.

Antoine-Louis-Claude Destutt de Tracy, Elements of Ideology
Published between 1801 and 1815.

Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Early Lessons and Moral Tales for Young People

Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Belinda
Society novel admired by Jane Austen.

Elizabeth Hamilton, Letters on Education

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Difference Between Fichte’s and Schelling’s System of Philosophy
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.

John Coakley Lettsom, Hints Designed to Promote Beneficence, Temperance, and Medical Science
"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."

Matthew G Lewis, Tales of Wonder

Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Néologie

Thomas Moore, Poems by Thomas Little

Lady Sydney Morgan, Poems

Amelia Opie, Father and Daughter

Philippe Pinel, Trait‚ m‚dico-philosophique sur l?ali‚nation mentale ou la manie
A seminal work in the history of psychiatry

Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Le MinistŠre de l'Homme-Esprit
Saint-Martin's final work, published a year before he died.

Wilhelm Friedrich Schelling, My System of Philosophy

Joanna Southcott, The Strange Effects of Faith

Robert Southey, Thalaba

Helena Maria Williams, Perourou, the Bellow Mender
A satire later adapted for the stage.

1802

Thomas Beddoes, Hyeia

Jeremy Bentham, Civil and Penal Legislation

Louis de Bonald, Législation primitive considérée...par les seules lumières de la raison
Published in three volumes.

Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, Rapports du physique et du moral de l’homme (On the Relations between the Physical and Moral Aspects of Man)
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.

François Auguste René Chateaubriand, Le Génie du christianisme
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.

François Auguste René Chateaubriand, René

William Cobbett, The Political Register
Launch of a journal by William Cobbett.

Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Poetry explained for the Use of Young People

Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Essay on Irish Bulls
Essay co-authored with Maria Edgeworth.

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis, Mademoiselle de Clermont

William Hayley, A Series of Ballads
The Ballads were published with engravings by Blake.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Faith and Knowledge
Article printed in the Critical Journal of Philosopy.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Essay on the German Constitution

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Critical Journal of Philosophy, vol.1: ‘Outbreak of Popular Joy Over the Destruction at Long Last of Philosophy’
Hegel edited the Critical Journal with Schelling.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, System der Sittlichkeit
Published between 1802 and 1803.

Immanuel Kant, Physical Geography

Novalis, Heinrich von Ofterdingen
Unfinished novel published posthumously, a translation appeared in 1802.

John Ogilvie, An Examination of the Evidence from Prophecy, in behalf of the Christian Religion

Amelia Opie, Poems

William Paley, Natural Theology
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.

Delisle de Sales, M‚moire en faveur de Dieu

Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border

Baruch Spinoza, Works

1803

Samuel Drew, An Original Essay on the Immateriality and Immortality of the Human Soul, founded solely on Physical and Rational Principles
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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die natrliche Tochter (The Illegitimate Daughter)
Goethe's last classical drama was intended as a response to the French Revolution.

Mary Hays, Female Biography: Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women of All Ages and Countries
A six volume celebratation of the lives of women.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Essay on ‘Natural Law’
Published in the Critical Journal

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, First Philosophy of Spirit

Jean-Baptiste Say, Treatise on Political Economy

Constantin-François de Chasseboeuf Volney, Le tableau du climat et du sol des tats-Unis (A View of the Soil and Climate of the United States of America)

1804

Joanna Baillie, Miscellaneous Plays

Cesare Beccaria, Elementi de economia pubblica
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.

Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, Coup d'oeil sur les r‚volutions et sur la r‚forme de la m‚decine (Sketch of the Revolutions of Medical Science and Views Relating to its Reform)
Written in 1795.

Maria Edgeworth, Popular Tales
Published in three volumes.

Eliza Fenwick, The Life of Carlo, the Family Dog of Drury Lane Theatre

Johann Gottlieb Fichte, The Fundamental Characteristics of the Present Age

Jakob Friedrich Fries, System der Philosophie als evidente Wissenschaft (New Critique of Reason)
Fries aimed to establish a new basis for Kantian critical philosophy and to reconcile criticism of Kant to Jacobi' s religious philosophy.

Elizabeth Hamilton, Agrippina, the Wife of Germanicus

William Hayley, Triumphs of Music

Mary Hays, Harry Clinton

Immanuel Kant, What Real Progress Has Been Made by Metaphysics in Germany Since the Time of Leibniz and Wolff?

Jean-François Marmontel, Mémoires d’ un père

Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head

1805

Antoine-Louis-Claude Destutt de Tracy, Trait‚de la volont‚et de ses effets

Denis Diderot, Rameau’s Nephew
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.

Maria Edgeworth, The Modern Griselda

William Hayley, Ballads Founded on Anecdotes of Animals

William Hazlitt, An Essay on the Principles of Human Action
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

Richard Payne Knight, Principles of Taste

Lady Sydney Morgan, The Novice of St. Dominick

Amelia Opie, Adeline Mowbray

Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
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.

Wilhelm Friedrich Schelling, System of Transcendental Idealism

Walter Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel

Robert Southey, Madoc

Jane Taylor, Original Poems for Infant Minds
Collection contains Jane Taylor's poem "Star," which begins "Twinkle, twinkle, little star . . ."

Mary Tighe, Psyche

1806

Tom Brown, Observations on the Nature and Tendency of the Doctrine of Mr. Hume, concerning the relation of Cause and Effect
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.

Lord Byron, Fugitive Pieces
Printed privately and immediately suppressed when the Rev. John Becher objects to some of the poems.

Maria Edgeworth, Leonora

Eliza Fenwick, The Class Book, or 365 Reading Lessons Adapted to the Use of Schools

William Forbes, The Life and Writings of James Beattie

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis, Alphonsine ou la tendresse maternelle (Alphonsine, or Maternal Affection)

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis, Madame de Maintenon

Elizabeth Hamilton, Letters Addressed to the Daughter of a Nobleman on the Formation of the Religious and Moral Principles

Elizabeth Inchbald, Remarks for the British Theatre

Lady Sydney Morgan, The Wild Irish Girl

Amelia Opie, Simple Tales

Walter Scott, Ballads and Lyrical Pieces

1807

Lord Byron, Hours of Idleness

Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Addresses to the German Nation

Jakob Friedrich Fries, Handbuch der praktischen Philosophie
Published between 1818 and 1832.

Jakob Friedrich Fries, Neue oder anthropologische Kritik der Vernunft

Jean-François de La Harpe, Commentaire sur Racine

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit

William Jones, Discourses

Charles Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare

Jean-Georges Noverre, Lettres sur les arts imitateurs

Wilhelm Friedrich Schelling, On Human Freedom

Robert Southey, Letters from England by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella

Madame de Stael, Corinne
A romantic novel.

William Wordsworth, Ode on Intimitions of Immortality

1808

Thomas Clarkson, History of the Abolition of the African Slave-trade

Antoine-Louis-Claude Destutt de Tracy, Commentaire sur l' Esprit des lois de Montesquieu

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part 1

Henri Grégoire, De la litt‚rature des nŠgres (An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties, and Literature of Negroes)

William Warburton, Letters from a Late Eminent Prelate to One of His Friends
The friend was Richard Hurd.

1809

François Auguste René Chateaubriand, Les Martyrs

Samuel Drew, An Essay on the Identity and General Resurrection of the Human Body; in which the evidences in favour of these important subjects are considered, in relation both to Philosophy and Scripture

Maria Edgeworth, Tales from Fashionable Life
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.

Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Essays on Professional Education

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis, Alphonse ou le fils naturel (Alphonso, or the Natural Son)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wahlverwandtschaften (Elective Affinities)
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.

Chrétien Guillaume de Lamiognon de Malesherbes, La Liberté de la presse
Posthumous publication.

Chrétien Guillaume de Lamiognon de Malesherbes, Mémoires sur la librairie
Posthumous publication.

David Ricardo, The High Price of Bullion, Proof of the Depreciation of Bank Notes

Friedrich Schlegel, Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

1810

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Farbenlehre (Theory of Colors)
Goethe's unsuccessful attempt to overturn Newtonian optics.

Joseph de Maistre, Essay on the Generation of Political Constitutions
De Maistre regarded the French Revolution as divine punishment for France’s acceptance of the anti-Christian Enlightenment.

Dugald Stewart, Philosophical Essays

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