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Book SynopsisIncludes essays that represent scholarship on the Enlightenment in Britain, Europe, and North America.
Table of ContentsRichard Barney, The Splenetic Sublime: Anne Finch, Melancholic Physiology, and Post/Modernity; Sarah Cohen, Animal Performance in Oudry's Illustrations to the Fables of La Fontaine; JoLynn Edwards, The Conti Sales of 1777 and 1779 and their Impact on the Parisian Art Market; Ingrid Tague, Companions, Servants, or Slaves?: Considering Animals in Eighteenth Century Britain; Matthieu P. Raillard, Deism, the Sublime and the Formulation of Early Romanticism in Juan Melendez Valdes and Jose Cadalso; Romira Worvill, From Prose peinture to Dramatic tableau: Diderot, Fenelon and the Emergence of the Pictorial Aesthetic in France; Julie Candler Hayes, Friendship and the Female Moralist; Teresa Michals, "Like a Spoiled Actress off the Stage": Anti-Theatricality, Nature, and the Novel; Adam Beach, Behn's Oroonoko, the Gold Coast, and Slavery in the Early-Modern Atlantic World; Eric Gidal, "A gross and barbarous composition": Melancholy, National Character, and the Critical Reception of Hamlet in the Eighteenth Century Character; Nicole von Germeten, Prostitution and the Captain's Wife: A Public and Notorious Scandal in Eighteenth-Century Cartagena de Indias; Margaret Boyle, Chronicling Women's Containment in Bartolome Arzans de Orsua y Vela's History of Potsi.
