Simon During (Johns Hopkins)
"Feverish: charlatanism and resentment in London 's mid-eighteenth-century literary culture"
Read more ›"Feverish: charlatanism and resentment in London 's mid-eighteenth-century literary culture"
Read more ›"'Medical Enlightenment' or 'Golden Age of Quackery'?: Charlatans and Charlatanism in Eighteenth-Century Italy"
Read more ›"Giacomo Casanova: three episodes in his life as a charlatan"
Read more ›Literary Representations of charlatanism in eighteenth-century Germany
Read more ›The Contested Professional Places of La Mettrie, Doctor, Philosopher, and Libertine
Read more ›"From Powder of Sympathy to Power of Suggestion: The Case of Sir Kenelm Digby"
Read more ›"Charlataneria Eruditorum: On the social semantics of scientific fraud in 17th and 18th century Germany"
Read more ›"Con or Craft? Changing defenses of chrysopoeia in a late seventeenth-century medical journal"
Read more ›"From Gold-Maker to Stockmarket Speculator: Faust and the Modern Economy (a study in European cultural & social history)"
Read more ›"Charlatanism, Alchemy and Critique of Religion in Hamburg (1750-1761)"
Read more ›"Performing the resurrection: James Graham and the suspension of disbelief"
Read more ›"The spontaneous generation theory after Redi and Leeuwenhoek: On the strategic use of (pseudo)science in 18th-c. philosophical texts"
Read more ›Annabel Temple-Smith (Queensland) "Charlatan Philosopher and Wise Enchantress: seduction and authority in 18th century French discourses on happiness"
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