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Johns Hopkins University Press Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
This new volume continues the tradition of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture of publishing innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the interpretive edge. Undertaking critical investigation of eighteenth-century ideas and practices, it discusses the possibilities and limitations of print; royal portraiture, the sentimental novel, and botanical classification through the categories of gender; the European experience in the 1700s; and change over time in the realms of music, architecture, and literature from the eighteenth century to the nineteenth. Contributors and content: James 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
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Johns Hopkins University Press Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
This well-illustrated new volume continues the tradition of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture of publishing innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the interpretive edge. Contents include: ASECS Women's Caucus Roundtable: The Career and Work of Madelyn GutwirthCarol Blum, Madeleine Dobie, Madelyn Gutwirth, Katherine Jensen, Sarah Maza, Karyna Szmurlo, and Janet Whately The Plantation and the Polis: Reform Ideology and the Generic Structure in Matthew Lewis' Journal of the West Indian ProprietorEllen Malenas Give Us Our Daily Breadfruit: Bread Substitution in the Pacific in the Eighteenth CenturyVanessa Smith The People Things Make: Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and the Properties of SelfMark Blackwell Covering Sexual Disguise: Passing Women and Generic RestraintFraser Easton Sapphic Self-Fashioning in the Baroque Era: Women's Petrarchan Parody in English and Spanish, 1650-1700Dianne Dugaw and Amanda W. Powell "Why, you...I oughta'...": Aposiopesis and the Natural Language of the Passions, 1670-1770Robert G. Dimit From Geneva to Glasgow: Rousseau and Adam Smith on the Theatre and Commercial SocietyRyan Hanley Faux savants, femmes philosophes, and philosophes amoureux: Foibles of the philosophe on the Eighteenth-Century French StageAnne Vila The New Paris in the Guise of the Old: Louis Sebastian Mercier from Old Regime to RevolutionJoanna Stalnaker Carriages, Conversation, and A Sentimental JourneyDanielle Bobker Hyperborean Atlantis: Jean-Sylvian Bailly, Madame Blavatsky, and the Nazi MythDan Edelstein
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Johns Hopkins University Press Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
With this well-illustrated new volume, the SECC continues its tradition of publishing innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the interpretive edge. Essays include:Misty Anderson, Our Purpose is the Same: Whitefield, Foote, and the Theatricality of Methodism Tili Boon Cuille, La Vraisemblance du merveilleux: Operatic Aesthetics in Cazotte's Fantastic Fiction Simon Dickie, Joseph Andrews and the Great Laughter Debate: The Roasting of Adams Lynn Festa, Cosmetic Differences: The Changing Faces of England and France Blake Gerard, All that the heart wishes: Changing Views toward Sentimentality Reflected in Visualizations of Sterne's Maria, 1773-1888 Jennifer Keith, The Sins of Sensibility and the Challenge of Antislavery Poetry Mary Helen McMurran, Aphra Behn from Both Sides: Translation in the Atlantic World Leslie Richardson, Leaving her Father's House: Locke, Astell, and Clarissa's Body Politic Sandra Sherman, The Wealth of Nations in the 1790s Alan Sikes, Snip Snip Here, Snip Snip There, and a Couple of Tra La Las: The Rise and Fall of the Castrato Singer Rivka Swenson, Representing Modernity in Jane Barker's Galesia Trilogy: Jacobite Allegory and the Aesthetics of the Patch-Work Subject
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