Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

The politics of genre and textual materialisms in the eighteenth century.

The volume's first section treats the politics of genre: Mar a Soledad Barb n on the colonial politics of panegyric in Peru; Amanda Johnson on Thomas Jefferson's use of Ossianic romance; Catherine M. Jaffe on the gender politics of translation in a Spanish novel; Cecilia Feilla on French Revolutionary politics in London harlequinades; and Rebecca Tierney-Hynes on the economics of comedic form in Susanna Centlivre's plays.

The volume's second section, on textual materialisms, includes Daniel Leonard on fetishism and figurism in Charles de Brosses; Beth Fowkes Tobin on the notebooks of the naturalist Dr. Richard Pulteney; Betty Joseph on capitalism and early English fictional treatments of China and India; Dwight Codr on hairs and sneezes in Pope's Rape of the Lock; John Greene on magic lanterns and peepshow boxes in Rousseau's R veries; Sara Mu oz-Muriana on mirrors and gender in Spanish comedy; and David Mazella on cultivation and improvement in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142141936X
• ISBN13: 9781421419367
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher