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Book SynopsisPresents essays that share a common concern with investigating Enlightenment categories of historical understanding and determining how these categories helped shape Enlightenment culture. This work addresses the question of how eighteenth-century writers make sense of the past for their own practical, aesthetic, and ideological purposes.
Table of ContentsFrank Palmeri, Conjectural History and the Origins of Sociology; Stuart Peterfreund, From the Forbidden to the Familiar: The Way of Natural Theology Leading up to and beyond the Long Eighteenth Century; Tony C. Brown, The Barrows of History; Shane Agin, Sex Education in the Enlightened Nation; Suzanne R. Pucci, Snapshots of Family Intimacy in the French Eighteenth Century: The Case of Paul et Virginie; Ana Hontanilla, Images of Barbaric Spain in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing; Mark R. Malin, The Good, the Bad, and the Sentimental Savage: Native Americans in Representative Novels from the Spanish Enlightenment; Simon During, Church, State, and Modernization: English Literature as Gentlemanly Knowledge after 1688; Julia Rudolph, "That Blunderbuss of Law": Giles Jacob, Abridgement, and Print Culture; Anne H. Stevens, Forging Literary History: Historical Fiction and Literary Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain; Jennifer Thorn, "All beautiful in woe": Gender, Nation, and Phillis Wheatley's Niobe; Hilary Englert, "This Rhapsodical Work": Object-Narrators and the Figure of Sterne.
