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Book SynopsisA selection of the most exciting current work in eighteenth-century studies. Focusing on the fraught ways in which communities are defined, volume 51 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture showcases groundbreaking research in all of the disciplines that constitute eighteenth-century studies. An article by Aaron Santesso and David Rosen intervenes in the current debates over critique by excavating a theory of ethical reading embedded in liberalism. In a similar mode, Jesslyn Whittell reads Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno as a stuplime forerunner to contemporary experimental poetry. Considering communities that emerge around artworks, Aaron Gabriel Montalvo examines Joseph Highmore's Pamela paintings for the ways in which they inculcated new forms of moral spectatorship, while Stacey Jocoy shows how Robert Burns's ballad collections manipulated both tunes and lyrics in order to fashion a new vision of Scottish culture. Renee Bryzik finds that asymmetrical friendships in eightee
Table of ContentsLiberal Theory and Eighteenth-Century Criticism, by David Rosen and Aaron Santesso
Novel Paintings: Learning to Read Art Through Joseph Highmore's Adventures of Pamela, by Aaron Gabriel Montalvo
"A tedious accumulation of nothing": Christopher Smart, Imperialist Archives, and Mechanical Poetry in the Eighteenth Century, by Jesslyn Whittell
Robert Burns and the Refashioning of Scottish Identity through Songs, by Stacey Jocoy
Animal Domestication and Human-Animal Difference in Buffon's Natural History, by Dario Galvo
Marvelous Maples: Visions of Maple Sugar in New France, 1691-1761, by Nathan D. Brown
Pirate Vices, Public Benefits: The Social Ethics of Piracy in the 1720s, by Noel Chevalier
Defoe's "Mobbish" Utopias, by Maximillian E. Novak
Fragile Communities in the Crusoe Trilogy, by Li Qi Peh
Family Instruction in Defoe's Further Adventures: Consider the Children, by Judith Stuchiner
Friendship, Not Freedom: Dependent Friends in the Late Eighteenth-Century Novel, by Renee Bryzik
The Art of Intercultural Engagement: A Cluster on Daniel O'Quinn's Engaging the Ottoman Empire: Vexed Mediations, 1690-1815
Introduction: Daniel O'Quinn's Melancholy Cosmopolitanism, by Ashley L. Cohen
The Archive and the Repertoire of the Treaty of Karlowitz, by Angelina del Balzo
Empire and Modern Media: Vanmour or less, by Douglas Fordham
Wrinkles in Imperial Time, by Lynn Festa
Between Geographic and Conceptual Fields: Mapping Microhistories in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire, by Katherine Calvin
Rabble, Rubble, Repeat, by Zirwat Chowdhury
On Walls, Bridges, and Temporal Folds: Epic, Empire, and Neoclassicism Revisited, by Charlotte Sussman
What Eludes Us, by Daniel O'Quinn
