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Book SynopsisUndertaking critical investigation of eighteenth-century ideas and practices, this book discusses the possibilities and limitations of print; royal portraiture, the sentimental novel, and botanical classification through the categories of gender; and, the European experience in the 1700s.
Trade ReviewA challenging, but rewarding, collection of essays, each of which contributes to our understanding of the long eighteenth century... TheThe volume is carefully edited and beautifully illustrated. It will be a valuable resource for many years. -- Christopher D. Johnson Eighteenth Century: Current Bibliography
Table of ContentsJames Swenson, Critique, Progress, Autonomy; Eve Tavor Bannet, Printed Epistolary Manuals and the Rescripting of Manuscript Culture; Madeleine Forell Marshall, Late Eighteenth-Century Public Reading, with Particular Attention to Sheridan's Strictures on Reading the Church Service (1789); Daniel Rosenberg, Joseph Priestley and the Graphic Invention of Modern Time; Jennifer G. Germann, Fecund Fathers and Missing Mothers: Louis XV, Marie Leszczinska, and the Politics of Royal Parentage in the 1720s; Mary McAlpin, Julie's Breasts, Julie's Scars: Physiology and Character in La Nouvelle Heloise; Ann B. Shteir, Flora primavera or Flora meretrix? Iconography, Gender, and Science; Karen Melvin, A Potential Saint Thwarted: Religion and the Politics of Sanctity in Late-Eighteenth Century New Spain; Margaret R. Ewalt, Christianity, Coca, and Commerce in the Peruvian Mercury; Howard Irving, Haydn and the Politics of the Picturesque; Richard Wittman, The Hut and the Altar: Architectural Origins and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France; Goran Blix, The Occult Roots of Realism: Balzac, Mesmer, and Second Sight.
