For those who care to pay attention to the scholarly work that is recognized as exceptional in the humanities, The Making of the Modern Self, by Dror Wahrman, has won the Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, which is one of the two most important professional organizations I belong to. The other is the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, which last year gave its top prize to Janine Barchas’ Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel.
Now you can behave as if we’re all obsessed with politically correct witch hunts, but I reserve the right to point out that your assertion is demonstrably false.