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Johns Hopkins University Press Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
The interdisciplinary essays in this volume represent innovative scholarship on the Enlightenment in Britain, Europe, and North America. Contributors and contents: Dennis Moore, Colloquy with the Author: Vincent Carretta and Equiano, the African Toni Bowers, Behn's Monmouth: Sedition, Seduction, and Tory Ideology in the 1680s Tita Chico, Details and Frankness: Affective Relations in Sir Charles Gradison Rebecca M. Mills, 'To be both Patroness and Friend': Patronage, Friendship, and Protofeminism in the Life of Elizabeth Thomas (1675-1731) Catherine M. Jaffe, Noticia de la vida y obras del Conde de Rumford (1802) by Maria Lorenza de los Rios, Marquesa de Fuerte-Hijar: Authorizing a Space for Female Charity Laura Mandell, Prayer, Feeling, Action: Anna Barbauld and the Public Worship Controversy Chloe Wigston Smith, Dressing the British: Clothes, Customs, and Nation in W. H. Pyne's The Costume of Great Britain Heidi E. Kraus, David's Roman Vedute Elizabeth Claire, Monstrous Choreographies: Waltzing, Madness, and Miscarriage Douglas S. Harvey, Strolling Players in Albany, Montreal, and Quebec City, 1797 and 1810: Performance, Class, and Empire Woodruff D. Smith, Corruption and Eighteenth-Century Social Science: Mapping the Space of Political Economy
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Johns Hopkins University Press Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
The essays in this volume share a common concern with investigating Enlightenment categories of historical understanding and determining how these categories helped shape Enlightenment culture. The contributors address the question of how eighteenth-century writers make sense of the past-how they interpret it, give it meaning and form, and deploy it for their own practical, aesthetic, and ideological purposes. Contributors and contents: Frank 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
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Johns Hopkins University Press Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
The interdisciplinary essays in this volume represent innovative scholarship on the Enlightenment in Britain, Europe, and North America. Contributors and Contents Richard Barney, The Splenetic Sublime: Anne Finch, Melancholic Physiology, and Post/Modernity Sarah Cohen, Animal Performance in Oudry's Illustrations to the Fables of La Fontaine JoLynn Edwards, The Conti Sales of 1777 and 1779 and their Impact on the Parisian Art Market Ingrid Tague, Companions, Servants, or Slaves?: Considering Animals in Eighteenth Century Britain Matthieu P. Raillard, Deism, the Sublime and the Formulation of Early Romanticism in Juan Melendez Valdes and Jose Cadalso Romira Worvill, From Prose peinture to Dramatic tableau: Diderot, Fenelon and the Emergence of the Pictorial Aesthetic in France Julie Candler Hayes, Friendship and the Female Moralist Teresa Michals, "Like a Spoiled Actress off the Stage": Anti-Theatricality, Nature, and the Novel Adam Beach, Behn's Oroonoko, the Gold Coast, and Slavery in the Early-Modern Atlantic World Eric Gidal, "A gross and barbarous composition": Melancholy, National Character, and the Critical Reception of Hamlet in the Eighteenth Century Character Nicole von Germeten, Prostitution and the Captain's Wife: A Public and Notorious Scandal in Eighteenth-Century Cartagena de Indias Margaret Boyle, Chronicling Women's Containment in Bartolome Arzans de Orsua y Vela's History of Potsi
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Johns Hopkins University Press Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
This volume spotlights the visual arts, vision, and blindness during the Enlightenment in France, Britain, and Germany. The essays range from exploring the musical and cultural impact of an eighteenth-century virtuoso violinist to analyzing lotteries as romance in eighteenth-century England. Contributors and Contents: Mary Sheriff, The King, the Trickster and the Gorgon: On the Illusions of Rococo ArtBeverly Wilcox, The Hissing of Monsieur PaginJessica Richard, Lotteries and the Romance of Chance in Eighteenth-Century EnglandEmrys D. Jones, 'Friendship like mine / Throws all Respects behind it': Male Companionship and the Cult of Frederick, Prince of WalesDavid Hagan, Threading the Needle: Problems in Reading Dennis Diderot's La lettre sur les aveuglesJosephine Touma, From the Playhouse to the Page: Some Visual Sources for Watteau's Theatrical UniverseDaniel O'Quinn, Diversionary Tactics and Coercive Acts: John Burgoyne's Fete ChampetreShelley King, Portrait of a Marriage: John and Amelia Opie and the Sister ArtsDavid Fairer, Where Fuming Trees Refresh the Thirsty AirDorothea Von Mucke, Iconic Turn and the Power of Images: Goethe's Elective AffinitiesLaure Marcellesi, Louis-Sebastien Mercier: Prophet, Abolitionist, Colonialist
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