Studies in eighteenth-century culture.
By: edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai
Contributors: Erwin, Timothy; Mostefai, Ourida; American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Publisher: Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press for The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Eighteenth century; Civilization, Modern -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: value: Physicians, vitalism, and gender in the salon / Elizabeth A. Williams; value: Joanna Baillie's Plays on the passions and the spectacle of medical science / Karen Dwyer; value: Doctor-patient correspondence in eighteenth-century Britain : a change in rhetoric and relationship / Wayne Wild; value: William Smellie's use of obstetrical machines and the poor / Pam Lieske; value: Reading (and not reading) Richardson, 1756-1868 / Leah Price; value: The corporeal city in Blake's Milton and Jerusalem / Jennifer Davis Michael; value: Optical instruments and the eighteenth-century observer / Joanna Picciotto; value: Staged truth and travel epistemology in the Lettre à d'Alembert sur les spectacles / Lorraine Piroux; value: The politics of happy matrimony : Cerfvol's La gamologie ou l'education des filles destinées au mariage / Nadine Bérenguier; value: Historical pattern as political rhetoric : Tory uses of the restoration trope in power and opposition / Paul McCallum; value: Writing to Mr. Rambler : Samuel Johnson and exemplary autobiography / Lisa Berglund; value: Roxana's Susan : whose daughter is she anyway? / Geoffrey Sill; value: "All wove into one" : Camilla, the prose epic, and family values / Sara K. Austin; value: Masculinity, femininity, and the tragic sublime : reinventing Lady Macbeth / Heather McPherson; value: Ernst Cassirer's Enlightenment : an exchange with Bruce Mazlish / Robert Wokler; value: Ernst Cassirer's Enlightenment : an exchange with Robert Wokler / Bruce Mazlish