Studies in eighteenth-century culture.
By: edited by John Yolton, Leslie Ellen Brown
Contributors: Yolton, John W; Brown, Leslie Ellen; American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Publisher: Published for the American Society for Eighteenth-century Studies by Colleagues Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: East Lansing, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Eighteenth century; Civilization, Modern -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The Clifford lectures: Edmond Halley : his life and scientific achievements / Norman Thrower; title: 'Wicked Whiston' and the Scriblerians : another ancients-modern controversy / G.S. Rousseau; title: Authorized prophets : comets and astronomers after 1759 / Simon Schaffer; title: Medicine as a key to defining Enlightenment issues : the case of Julien Offray de La Mettrie / Kathleen Wellman; title: From curiosité to utilité : the automaton in eighteenth-century France / Reed Benhamou; title: "A visible history of art" : the forms and preoccupations of the early museum / Paul Holdengräber; title: Chinese export porcelain in eighteenth-century tidewater Virginia / Julia B. Curtis; title: Anglo-Irish attitudes : changing perceptions of national identity among the Protestant ascendancy in Ireland, ca. 1690-1750 / David Hayton; title: From "the French and Dutch are more sober, frugal, and industrious" to the "nobler" position : attitudes of the Prince of Wales toward a general naturalization and a popular monarchy, 1757-1760 / John L. Bullion; title: Blackstone's commentaries as constitutive rhetoric / Jeffrey Smitten; title: Women, publishers, and money, 1790-1820 / Jan Fergus, Janice Farrar Thaddeus; title: The ideological implications of onomatopoeia in the eighteenth century / Roy Harris; title: Hazlitt, the novel, and the French Revolution / Robert W. Uphaus; title: Cowper, Hayley, and Samuel Johnson's 'republican' Milton / James King; title: Following the stage-itinerant : perception, doubt, and death in Swift's Tale of a tub / Veronica Kelly; title: Mourning as reception in Rousseau's Julie / Patrick Coleman; title: Redressing passion : Sophie d'Houdetot and the origins of Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse / Susan Klem Jackson; title: The meeting place of autobiography and censorship : Rousseau's Lettres à Malesherbes / E.S. Burt; title: Rousseau and the democratization of language in the French Revolution / Carol Blum; title: Jefferson's music library : his catalogue of 1783 and a revision of Lowens's Haydn in America / Ronald R. Kidd; title: The Enlightenment : what and who? / Lester G. Crocker