{"product_id":"studies-in-eighteenthcentury-culture-9781421443423","title":"Studies in EighteenthCentury Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiberal Theory and Eighteenth-Century Criticism, by David Rosen and Aaron Santesso\u003cbr\u003eNovel Paintings: Learning to Read Art Through Joseph Highmore's Adventures of Pamela, by Aaron Gabriel Montalvo\u003cbr\u003e\"A tedious accumulation of nothing\": Christopher Smart, Imperialist Archives, and Mechanical Poetry in the Eighteenth Century, by Jesslyn Whittell\u003cbr\u003eRobert Burns and the Refashioning of Scottish Identity through Songs, by Stacey Jocoy\u003cbr\u003eAnimal Domestication and Human-Animal Difference in Buffon's Natural History, by Dario Galvo\u003cbr\u003eMarvelous Maples: Visions of Maple Sugar in New France, 1691-1761, by Nathan D. Brown\u003cbr\u003ePirate Vices, Public Benefits: The Social Ethics of Piracy in the 1720s, by Noel Chevalier\u003cbr\u003eDefoe's \"Mobbish\" Utopias, by Maximillian E. Novak\u003cbr\u003eFragile Communities in the Crusoe Trilogy, by Li Qi Peh\u003cbr\u003eFamily Instruction in Defoe's Further Adventures: Consider the Children, by Judith Stuchiner\u003cbr\u003eFriendship, Not Freedom: Dependent Friends in the Late Eighteenth-Century Novel, by Renee Bryzik\u003cbr\u003eThe Art of Intercultural Engagement: A Cluster on Daniel O'Quinn's Engaging the Ottoman Empire: Vexed Mediations, 1690-1815\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Daniel O'Quinn's Melancholy Cosmopolitanism, by Ashley L. Cohen\u003cbr\u003eThe Archive and the Repertoire of the Treaty of Karlowitz, by Angelina del Balzo\u003cbr\u003eEmpire and Modern Media: Vanmour or less, by Douglas Fordham\u003cbr\u003eWrinkles in Imperial Time, by Lynn Festa\u003cbr\u003eBetween Geographic and Conceptual Fields: Mapping Microhistories in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire, by Katherine Calvin\u003cbr\u003eRabble, Rubble, Repeat, by Zirwat Chowdhury\u003cbr\u003eOn Walls, Bridges, and Temporal Folds: Epic, Empire, and Neoclassicism Revisited, by Charlotte Sussman\u003cbr\u003eWhat Eludes Us, by Daniel O'Quinn\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408145391959,"sku":"9781421443423","price":37.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421443423.jpg?v=1730501752","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/studies-in-eighteenthcentury-culture-9781421443423","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}