{"product_id":"studies-in-eighteenthcentury-culture-volume-36-9780801885983","title":"Studies in EighteenthCentury Culture Volume 36","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUndertaking 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames 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.","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527625941335,"sku":"9780801885983","price":39.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801885983.jpg?v=1731868601","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/studies-in-eighteenthcentury-culture-volume-36-9780801885983","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}