Studies in eighteenth-century culture
By: edited by Harry C. Payne
Contributors: Payne, Harry C., ed; American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Publisher: Published for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies by the University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: [Madison]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Civilization, Modern -- 18th century; Eighteenth century
Notes: Papers from American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conferences in 1979-80

Includes bibliographical references and notes
Table of contents: value: The British defend their constitution in political cartoons and literature / Herbert M. Atherton; value: Beaumarchais and Voltaire's Samson / M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet; value: Hunt, conquest, trial : Lovelace and the metaphors of the rake / Penelope Biggs; value: The theory and practice of the wise and virtuous man : reflections on Adam Smith's response to Hume's deathbed wish / T.D. Campbell, Ian Ross; value: Jansenism in Diderot's La religieuse / Huguette Cohen; value: Blake and the two sublimes / V.A. De Luca; value: A portrait not by Guido Reni of a girl who is not Beatrice Cenci / Barbara Groseclose; value: "Between th' petticoat and breeches" : sexual warfare and the marriage debate in Hudibras / William C. Horne; value: The decline of military values : the theme of the deserter in eighteenth-century French literature / Adrienne D. Hytier; value: The transatlantic background of Thomas Jefferson's ideas of executive power / Ralph Ketcham; value: The dream of Ezra Stiles : Bishop Berkeley's haunting of New England / William H. McGowan; value: Reform or ruin : "a revolution in female manners" / Mitzi Myers; value: Drawing; value: a "polite recreation" in eighteenth-century England / Kim Sloan; value: Science as fine art : another look at Boullée's Cenotaph for Newton / Barbara Maria Stafford; value: Money for honor : damages for criminal conversation / Susan Staves; value: Johnson, humanism, and "the last great revolution of the intellectual world" / J.E. Svilpis; value: One glorious temple of God : eighteenth-century accommodation to changing reality in New England / Douglas H. Sweet; value: Goethe's conception of music as mediator and "element" / J.M. Tudor; value: The sexual politics of landscape : images of Venus in eighteenth-century English poetry and landscape gardening / James G. Turner; value: Of the conversation of women : the female Quixote and the dream of perfection / Leland E. Warren; value: The agrarian ideal in eighteenth-century Spain / Michael R. Weisser