Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Volume 36

by Jeffrey S. Ravel (Editor), Linda Zionkowski (Editor)

This new volume continues the tradition of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture of publishing innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the interpretive edge. Undertaking critical investigation of eighteenth-century ideas and practices, it discusses the possibilities and limitations of print; royal portraiture, the sentimental novel, and botanical classification through the categories of gender; the European experience in the 1700s; and change over time in the realms of music, architecture, and literature from the eighteenth century to the nineteenth. Contributors and James Swenson, Critique, Progress, Autonomy

Eve Tavor Bannet, Printed Epistolary Manuals and the Rescripting of Manuscript Culture

Madeleine Forell Marshall, Late Eighteenth-Century Public Reading, with Particular Attention to Sheridan's Strictures on Reading the Church Service (1789)

Daniel Rosenberg, Joseph Priestley and the Graphic Invention of Modern Time Jennifer G. Germann, Fecund Fathers and Missing Louis XV, Marie Leszczinska, and the Politics of Royal Parentage in the 1720s

Mary McAlpin, Julie's Breasts, Julie's Physiology and Character in La Nouvelle Héloïse

Ann B. Shteir, Flora primavera or Flora meretrix? Iconography, Gender, and Science Karen Melvin, A Potential Saint Religion and the Politics of Sanctity in Late-Eighteenth Century New Spain

Margaret R. Ewalt, Christianity, Coca, and Commerce in the Peruvian Mercury Howard Irving, Haydn and the Politics of the Picturesque

Richard Wittman, The Hut and the Architectural Origins and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France

Göran Blix, The Occult Roots of Balzac, Mesmer, and Second Sight

312 pages, Hardcover

First published March 15, 2004