Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

320 Seiten, Hardcover

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The interdisciplinary essays in this volume represent innovative scholarship on the Enlightenment in Britain, Europe, and North America.Contributors and ContentsRichard Barney, The Splenetic Sublime: Anne Finch, Melancholic Physiology, and Post/ModernitySarah Cohen, Animal Performance in Oudry's Illustrations to the Fables of La FontaineJoLynn Edwards, The Conti Sales of 1777 and 1779 and their Impact on the Parisian Art MarketIngrid Tague, Companions, Servants, or Slaves?: Considering Animals in Eighteenth Century BritainMatthieu P. Raillard, Deism, the Sublime and the Formulation of Early Romanticism in Juan Meléndez Valdés and José CadalsoRomira Worvill, From Prose peinture to Dramatic tableau Diderot, Fénelon and the Emergence of the Pictorial Aesthetic in FranceJulie Candler Hayes, Friendship and the Female MoralistTeresa Michals, "Like a Spoiled Actress off the Stage" Anti-Theatricality, Nature, and the NovelAdam Beach, Behn's Oroonoko, the Gold Coast, and Slavery in the Early-Modern Atlantic WorldEric Gidal, "A gross and barbarous composition" Melancholy, National Character, and the Critical Reception of Hamlet in the Eighteenth Century CharacterNicole von Germeten, Prostitution and the Captain's Wife: A Public and Notorious Scandal in Eighteenth-Century Cartagena de IndiasMargaret Boyle, Chronicling Women's Containment in Bartolomé Arzans de Orsúa y Vela's History of Potsi

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik
• ISBN: 9780801894350
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2010
• Größe: 228 x 163 mm
• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Herausgegeben von: Downing A Thomas, Lisa Forman Cody