Book Reviews

Boswell’s Enlightenment

Robert Zaretsky. Harvard University Press, 2015. 288 pages. $26.95.

The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir

Michael Bundock. Yale University Press, 2015. 282 pages. $35.00.

The Civil War as Global Conflict: Capital Transnational Meanings Of The American Civil War

Edited by David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis. University of South Carolina Press, 2014. 308 pages. $49.95.

It Starts With Trouble: William Goyen And The Life Of Writing

Clark Davis. University of Texas Press, 2015. 400 pages + 19 black-and-white photographs. $30.00.

Ancestors in Our Genome: The New Science of Human Evolution

Eugene E. Harris. Oxford University Press, 2015. 226 pages. $29.95.

Inside Paradise Lost: Reading the Designs of Milton’s Epic

David Quint. Princeton University Press, 2014. 329 pages. $95.00 cloth; $35.00 paperback.

Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

Danielle Allen. Liveright Publishing (W.W. Norton), 2014. 315 pages. $27.95.

Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England

Ramie Targoff. University of Chicago Press, 2014. 243 pages. $40.00.

Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘N’ Roll: The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science

Zoe Cormier. Da Capo Press, 2015. 327 pages. $26.99.

Classicism of the Twenties: Art, Music, and Literature

Theodore Ziolkowski. University of Chicago Press, 2015. 237 pages. $45.00.

Unrequited: Women and Romantic Obsession

Lisa A. Phillips. Harper, 2015. 304 pages. $25.00.

Existentialism and Romantic Love

Skye Cleary. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 208 pages. $95.00.