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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the revolutions in culture, politics and art that took place throughout the 18th century. Sections focus on the role of women in the formation and expression of culture, images of the body in popular drama, art and literature, and questions of ethnicity and loyalty.
Table of ContentsContents:Editor's Note Women's CreditFashion and Frugality: Eighteenth-Century Pocket Books for Women Jennie Batchelor"Who Shall Restore My Lost Credit?" Rape, Reputation, and the Marriage Market Leslie RichardsonMaking Good Use of History: Sarah Robinson Scott in the Republic of Letters Betty A. SchellenbergWomen Poets and Improvisors: Cultural Assumptions and Literary Values in Arcadia Paola Giuli Viewing Bodies"Cruel Disorder:: Female Bodies, Eighteenth-Century Fever Narratives, and the Sentimental Novel Candice WardRe-membering a Body of Work: Anatomical Designer Anna Morandi Manzolini Rebecca MessbargerViews of Women at Work by the Royal Academicians: The Collection Descriptions des arts et metiers (1761-1789) Geraildine SheridanPainting Life, Describing Death: Problems of Representation and Style in the Histoire naturelle Joanna StalnakerPublic Wounds: Sexual Bodies and the Origins of State in Nathaniel Lee's Lucius Junius Brutus Joyce G. MacDonald Politics & HistoryImperial Mythologies: Ethnicity and Rebellion on the Eighteenth-Century Venetian Stage Franca R. BarricelliWas Dryden a "Cryptopapist" in 1681? David HaleyYankees Caight in the Crossfire: The Trials and Travails of Americans in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France William L. Chew IIIPicturing the Caribbean in the Global British Landscape John E. CrowleyExotic Islands and the Stranded Traveler in the Works of Caspar David Friedrich Johann JK Reusch
