Jesse Norman

The Enlightenment was a many-splendoured thing

Ritchie Robinson describes how its philosophy spread to literature, the arts, commerce, agriculture, science and medicine

Robert Edge Pine’s portrait of Catharine Macaulay, whose History of England rivalled that of Hume. Credit: Bridgeman Images

  • The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790

    Ritchie Robertson

    Allen Lane, pp. 1008, £30

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