Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

By Jeffrey S. Ravel

Book Overview

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 Cuill?, 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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801881927
• ISBN13: 9780801881923
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher