Description
Book SynopsisSpotlights the visual arts, vision, and blindness during the Enlightenment in France, Britain, and Germany. This volume includes essays that range from exploring the musical and cultural impact of an eighteenth-century virtuoso violinist to analyzing lotteries as romance in eighteenth-century England.
Table of ContentsMary Sheriff, The King, the Trickster and the Gorgon: On the Illusions of Rococo Art; Beverly Wilcox, The Hissing of Monsieur Pagin; Jessica Richard, Lotteries and the Romance of Chance in Eighteenth-Century England; Emrys D. Jones, 'Friendship like mine / Throws all Respects behind it': Male Companionship and the Cult of Frederick, Prince of Wales; David Hagan, Threading the Needle: Problems in Reading Dennis Diderot's La lettre sur les aveugles; Josephine Touma, From the Playhouse to the Page: Some Visual Sources for Watteau's Theatrical Universe; Daniel O'Quinn, Diversionary Tactics and Coercive Acts: John Burgoyne's Fete Champetre; Shelley King, Portrait of a Marriage: John and Amelia Opie and the Sister Arts; David Fairer, Where Fuming Trees Refresh the Thirsty Air; Dorothea Von Mucke, Iconic Turn and the Power of Images: Goethe's Elective Affinities; Laure Marcellesi, Louis-Sebastien Mercier: Prophet, Abolitionist, Colonialist.
