Studies in eighteenth-century culture, volume 8
By: edited by Roseann Runte
Contributors: Runte, Roseann, ed; American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Publisher: Published for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies by the University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: [Madison]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Civilization, Modern -- 18th century
Notes: Papers from the National Conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: value: Elite versus popular mentality in the eighteenth century : ASECS prize essay / Harry C. Payne; value: The world between the literate and oral traditions in eighteenth-century France : ecclesiastical instructions and popular mentalities / Harvey Mitchell; value: Pessimism surpassed : new colleges as bastians against barbarism in colonial America / Margaret W. Masson; value: Elihu Palmer, radical deist, radical republican : a reconsideration of American free thought / Roderick S. French; value: Binding and dressing nature's loose tresses : the ideology of Augustan landscape design / Carole Fabricant; value: Rochester's sexual politics / Reba Wilcoxon; value: Mr. Locke and the ladies : the indelible words on the tabula rosa / Sheryl O'Donnell; value: Mary Wollstonecraft's letters written ... in Sweden : toward romantic autobiography / Mitzi Myers; value: Sir William Temple's views on science, poetry, and the imagination / Charles H. Hinnant; value: Friends and enemies in Verses on the death of Dr. Swift / James Wooley; value: Ironist and moralist : the two readers of Tom Jones / William Park; value: Sterne as editor : the "Abuses of conscience" sermon / Melvyn New; value: Kant : origin and utopia / Walter Moser; value: Rudolf Erich Raspe : the geologist Captain Cook refused / Ruth P. Dawson; value: Regnard and Collin d'Harleville on legacies by bachelor uncles / Philip Koch; value: Voltaire "lexicographer of the Enlightenment" / Virgil W. Topazio; value: The Physiocrats and the encyclopedists / Jean A. Perkins; value: The useful myth of Gothic ancestry / Mark Madoff; value: Strawberry Hill : architecture of the "as if" / Diane S. Ames