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John A. Eglin, Ph.D.
Biography
John Eglin, who received his Ph. D. from Yale University in 1996, teaches courses which focus on the cultural history of early modern Europe. His research concerns the cultural politics of Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His book Venice Transfigure was published in 2001 and a second book, The Imaginary Autocrat: Beau Nash and his Worlds, is in development for Profile Books, London. He is also investigating representations of small pox in the anglophone world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
   
Venice Transfigured
The Myth of Venice in British Culture, 1660-1797
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001.