Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

by Eve Tavor Bannet (Editor), Roxann Wheeler (Editor)

Overview

The interplay of violence and humanity, and of chaos and order, in different areas of culture and different nations.

The first section of this volume consists of a panel, "Transnational Quixotes and Quixotisms," introduced by Catherine Jaffe. It includes essays by Amelia Dale on how female quixotes differed from male quixotes in eighteenth-century England; by Elena Deanda on the Marquis de Sade as a quixotic figure; by Elizabeth Franklin Lewis on English travelers’ uses of Spanish cartography; and by Aaron R. Hanlon on quixotism as a global heuristic, with reference to the Pacific as well as the Atlantic.

The second panel in the volume, "The Habsburgs and the Enlightenment," is introduced by Rebecca Messbarger. It includes essays by Rita Krueger on conflicts between Maria Theresa’s view of the Enlightenment and that of her reigning children; by Julia Doe on Marie Antoinette’s promotion of a new nontraditional kind of opera at the French court; by R. S. Agin on questions of judicial torture in Austrian Lombardy; and by Heather Morrison on Habsburg efforts to compete with other empires in botany as well as diplomacy.

The third section consists of individual essays: Michael B. Guenter on Britain’s subordination of science to imperial goals in the new world; Richard Frohock on the critique of British imperialism in John Gay’s Polly; Jeffrey Merrick on the French Revolution’s failure to materially alter the legal status of sodomy and suicide; Adam Potkay, comparing Rousseau and Adam Smith’s views of pity and gratitude; Jeff Loveland, on the methods used by Diderot to edit the Encyclopédie; and Tamar Mayer, on Jacques-Louis David’s use of mirror reversibility in the composition of his painting, "Oath of the Horatii."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781421439259
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	03/30/2021
Pages:	420
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Eve Tavor Bannet is the George Lynn Cross Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading, 1720–1810: Migrant Fictions and the coeditor of Transatlantic Literary Studies, 1660–1830.

Roxann Wheeler is an associate professor of English at The Ohio State University. She is the author of The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture.

Table of Contents

President's Lecture: Marie-Antoinette in Maine: Royalty, Revolution, and the Fictions of History, by Sue Lanser
RACE AND EMPIRE
Clifford Lecture: Crusoe's Absence, by Barbara Fuchs
Race and Empire Caucus Prize Essay: Follow me your guide: John Singleton's Definition of the West Indies, by Kimberley Takahata
PANEL: Slavery in the Caribbean: Archives and Representations
Introduction, by Kelly Wisecup
The Slave as Cultural Artefact: the case of Mary Prince, by Kerry Sinanan
Representing Sexual Violation in the Archive of Caribbean Enslavement, by Jennifer Reed
Digital Performance and the Musical Archive of Slavery: Like Running Home', by Mary Caton Lingold
FORUM: Addressing Structural Racism in the Eighteenth-Century Curriculum
Introduction, by Sue Lanser
Teaching Eighteenth-Century British Literature Beyond the Pale, by Rebekah Mitsein
Critical Race Theory and the Multicultural French Enlightenment, by Christy Pichichero
Teaching Eighteenth-Century Black Lives, by Kathleen Lubey
The Uses and Limits of Archives in Decolonial Curricula, by Deanna Koretsky
MATERIAL CULTURE
TRANSPORT
The Matter of the Carriage in Frances Burney's Evalina, by Mary Crone-Romanovski
Accidents, Risk Management, and Driving Culture, 1780–1820, by Bridget Donnelly
Fanny Burney and the Tea Table Wars: Negotiating Agency at Windsor and at Court, by Susan Kubica Howard
Memories Lighter than Air: The Visual and Material Culture of Balloons in Eighteenth-Century France, by Hyejin Lee
MANUFACTURES
PANEL: Art, Alchemy, and Rivalry: the Eighteenth-Century Manufactory
Introduction, by Tara Zanardi
Of the Greatest Extent: Territory and the Matter of Size in Louis XIV's Savonnerie Carpets, by Sarah Grandin
Courtly Figures: Collecting Meissen and the Creation of National Identity in the Court of Augustus II and beyond, by Agnieszke Anna Ficek
EMERGING ISSUES
FORUM: The Postcritical Eighteenth Century
Introduction, by Joseph Drury
Critique and its Explosions, by Jeffrey Galbraith
Theory Attachment, by Sarah Tindall Kareem
Romance after Critique, by Scott Black
Formalism, Compositionism, Affect, by Wendy Anne Lee
Posthistorical Austen and the Future of Literary Studies, by Jason Solinger
FORUM: The New Eighteenth-Century Ireland
Introduction, by Rebecca Barr
Digital Bibliography and the Irish Book Trades, by Justin Tonra
Imperial Analogues in Early Irish Fiction, by Daniel Sanjiv Roberts
Archive Fever: The interaction of Print, Manuscript, and Oral Literary Cultures, by Moyra Haslett
A New Stage for Eighteenth-Century Irish Theater Studies, by David O'Shaughnessy
FORUM: Defending the Humanities: Making a Case for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Introduction, by Peggy Thompson
Bringing the Humanities Home (via the Eighteenth Century), by Linda Zionkowski
Health and Humanities, by Sandra M. Gustafson
Strategizing as a "Faculty of Letters": Advocating Eighteenth-Century Studies Curriculum on a Budget, by Heather King
Expanding Access to Knowledge: How Enlightenment Ideals Can Strengthen Public Support for the Humanities, by Scott St. Louis