PorterRoy, The creation of the modern world: The untold story of the British Enlightenment (New York, 2000); published in the UK as Enlightenment: Britain and the creation of the modern world (Harmondsworth, 2000).
2.
PorterRoy, “Science, provincial culture and public opinion in Enlightenment England”, British journal for eighteenth-century studies, iii (1980), 20–46; idem, “The Enlightenment in England”, in The Enlightenment in national context, ed. by PorterRoyTeichMikuláš (Cambridge, 1981), 1–18.
3.
CassirerErnst, The philosophy of the Enlightenment, transl. by KoellnFritz C. A.PettegroveJames P. (Princeton, NJ, 1951); GayPeter, The Enlightenment: An interpretation (2 vols, London, 1967–70).
4.
For this text, contextual writings, and extensive commentary, see: SchmidtJames (ed.), What is Enlightenment? Eighteenth-century answers and twentieth-century questions (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1996).
5.
The key texts are: HabermasJürgen, The structural transformation of the public sphere: An inquiry into a category of bourgeois society, transl. by BurgerThomas (Cambridge, Mass., 1989); and FoucaultMichel, Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison, transl. by SheridanAlan (Harmondsworth, 1977). Each has generated an extensive body of commentary.
6.
See the remarks in PorterRoy, London: A social history (Cambridge, Mass., 1994), pp. xiii–xv, 1–10, 364–89.
7.
Building upon the collaborative volume edited by PorterTeich (ref. 2), recent work includes: LivingstoneDavid N.WithersCharles W. J. (eds), Geography and Enlightenment (Chicago, 1999); and the chapters in Part 4, “Provinces and peripheries”, in ClarkWilliamGolinskiJanSchafferSimon (eds), The sciences in enlightened Europe (Chicago, 1999).
8.
JordanovaLudmilla, Sexual visions: Images of gender in science and medicine between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries (Hemel Hempstead, 1989); OutramDorinda, The Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1995), 80–95.
