About the Author

Richard Nash, Associate Professor of English at Indiana University, is the author of John Craige's Mathematical Principles of Christian Theology.

Reviews

Wild Enlightenment is a stimulating and insightful work that opens up new avenues of understanding into the eighteenth century. While other authors have treated the general topic of the Enlightenment 'savage, ' Nash provides a provocative, capacious, and original framework for understanding the importance of this phenomenon.--Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University

The critical thrust of Wild Enlightenment is historicist in the sense that it encourages us to understand the terms of early eighteenth-century debates before the consolidation of terminology (and thought) that we associate with Linnaeus.... [T]he very best of contemporary eighteenth-century scholarship.-- "Eighteenth Century Fiction"