Studies in eighteenth-century culture.
By: edited by Julie Candler Hayes and Timothy Erwin
Contributors: Erwin, Timothy; Hayes, Julie Candler, 1955-; American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Publisher: Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press for The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Eighteenth century; Civilization, Modern -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: value: Gods, devils, and Gutenberg : the eighteenth century confronts the printing press / Elizabeth L. Eisenstein (1996 Clifford lecture); value: "Suspicious latitudes" : commerce, colonies, and patriotism in the 1730s / Philip Woodfine; value: The changing country of Anthony Casteel : language, religion, geography, political loyalty, and nationality in mid-eighteenth-century Nova Scotia / Geoffrey Plank; value: "Be such a man as I" : mademoiselle makes the tour of Europe in men's clothes / Susan Lamb; value: The symbolic structure of eighteenth-century male creativity : pregnant men, brain-wombs, and female muses (with some comments on Pope's Dunciad / Raymond Stephanson; value: The art of oblivion : Charlotte Smith and Helen of Troy / Charlotte Sussman; value: "Bringing Virgil over into Britain" : John Dryden refigures Aeneid 1-5 / Richard Morton; value: "Can you apply arithmetick to every thing?" : Moll Flanders, William Petty, and social accounting / Rebecca E. Connor; value: Voltaire's Zadig, chaos theory, and the problem of determinism vs. free will / Theodore E.D. Braun; value: "Nature doth everywhere geometrize" : crystals, crystallization, and crystallography in the long eighteenth century / Alan T. McKenzie and Ann T. McKenzie; value: "The highest province of benevolence" : Charles Brockden Brown's fictional theory / James Dillon; value: Dramatic authorship and the honor of men of letters in eighteenth-century France / Gregory S. Brown; value: Ethics and otherness : an exploration of Diderot's Conte moral / Diane Fourny; value: Theorizing visual language in George Berkeley and Jean Paul / Beate Allert; value: The improving eye : eighteenth-century picturesque travel and agricultural change in the Scottish Highlands / Julie Rak; value: Humphry Repton, "any Mr. Repton," and the "improvement" metonym in Mansfield Park / Richard Quaintance