Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture: Volume 38 - Hardcover

The interdisciplinary essays in this volume represent innovative scholarship on the Enlightenment in Britain, Europe, and North America.

Contributors and contents:

Dennis Moore, Colloquy with the Author: Vincent Carretta and Equiano, the African

Toni Bowers, Behn’s Monmouth: Sedition, Seduction, and Tory Ideology in the 1680s

Tita Chico, Details and Frankness: Affective Relations in Sir Charles Gradison

Rebecca M. Mills, ‘To be both Patroness and Friend’: Patronage, Friendship, and Protofeminism in the Life of Elizabeth Thomas (1675-1731)

Catherine M. Jaffe, Noticia de la vida y obras del Conde de Rumford (1802) by María Lorenza de los Ríos, Marquesa de Fuerte-Híjar: Authorizing a Space for Female Charity

Laura Mandell, Prayer, Feeling, Action: Anna Barbauld and the Public Worship Controversy

Chloe Wigston Smith, Dressing the British: Clothes, Customs, and Nation in W. H. Pyne’s The Costume of Great Britain

Heidi E. Kraus, David’s Roman Vedute

Elizabeth Claire, Monstrous Choreographies: Waltzing, Madness, and Miscarriage

Douglas S. Harvey, Strolling Players in Albany, Montreal, and Quebec City, 1797 and 1810: Performance, Class, and Empire

Woodruff D. Smith, Corruption and Eighteenth-Century Social Science: Mapping the Space of Political Economy

Linda Zionkowski is a professor of English at Ohio University. She is the author of Men's Work: Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Poetry, 1660-1784 and the coeditor of The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England. Downing Thomas is a professor of French at the University of Iowa. He is the author or coeditor of several books, including Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime: 1647-1785 and Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries in Musical Drama.