Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

by Linda Zionkowski (Editor), Downing A. Thomas (Editor)

Overview

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 María Lorenza de los Ríos, Marquesa de Fuerte-Híjar: 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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801887956
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	04/01/2008
Series:	Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Series , #37
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Linda Zionkowski is a professor of English at Ohio University. She is the author of Men's Work: Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Poetry, 1660-1784 and the coeditor of The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England.

Downing A. Thomas is a professor of French at the University of Iowa, where he is also associate provost and dean of International Programs. He is the author or coeditor of several books, including Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime: 1647–1785, Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries in Musical Drama, and Music and the Origins of Language: Theories from the French Enlightenment. Lisa F. Cody is an associate dean of the faculty and an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College. She is the author of Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note     vii
Conjectural History and the Origins of Sociology   Frank Palmeri     1
From the Forbidden to the Familiar: The Way of Natural Theology Leading up to and beyond the Long Eighteenth Century   Stuart Peterfreund     23
The Barrows of History   Tony C. Brown     41
Sex Education in the Enlightened Nation   Shane Agin     67
Snapshots of Family Intimacy in the French Eighteenth Century: The Case of Paul et Virginie   Suzanne R. Pucci     89
Images of Barbaric Spain in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing   Ana Hontanilla     119
The Good, the Bad, and the Sentimental Savage: Native Americans in Representative Novels from the Spanish Enlightenment   Mark R. Malin     145
Church, State, and Modernization: English Literature as Gentlemanly Knowledge after 1688   Simon During     167
That "Blunderbuss of Law": Giles Jacob, Abridgement, and Print Culture   Julia Rudolph     197
Forging Literary History: Historical Fiction and Literary Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain   Anne H. Stevens     217
"All beautiful in woe": Gender, Nation, and Phillis Wheatley's Niobe   Jennifer Thorn     233
"This Rhapsodical Work": Object-Narrators and the Figure of Sterne   HilaryEnglert     259
Contributors     279
Readers     282
Executive Board 2007-2008     284
Patron Members     285
Sponsoring Members     286
Institutional Members     287
Index     288

Editorial Reviews

A 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.

Eighteenth Century: Current Bibliography - Christopher D. Johnson

A 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