Studies in eighteenth-century culture.
By: edited by Julie Candler Hayes and Timothy Erwin
Contributors: Hayes, Julie Candler, 1955-; Erwin, Timothy; American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Publisher: Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press for The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Eighteenth century; Civilization, Modern -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: value: The ridiculous, the sublime, the modern : aspects of Italian culture in the early eighteenth century / Suzanne Kiernan; value: Chinoiserie and the aesthetics of illegitimacy / David Porter; value: Pictorial prostitution : visual culture, vigilantism, and "pornography" in Dunton's Night-walker / James Grantham Turner; value: Fallen men : representations of male impotence in Britain / Judith C. Mueller; value: "No cure, no money," or the invisible hand of quackery : the language of commerce, credit, and cash in eighteenth-century British medical advertisements / Lisa Forman Cody; value: "Imaginary productions" and "minute contrivances" : law, fiction, and property in eighteenth-century England / Eleanor F. Shevlin; value: "To sing the town" : women, place, and print culture in eighteenth-century Bath / Elizabeth Child; value: Material of the guild : a study of a German cabinetmakers' guild chest / Annette K. Weir; value: Voltaire, Fontenoy, and the crisis of celebratory verse / John R. Iverson; value: The inversion of conversion : Rousseau's rewriting of Augustinian autobiography / Patrick Riley; value: "A sawce-box and boldface indeed" : refiguring the female servant in the Pamela-antipamela debate / Scarlett Bowen; value: "This theatre of monstrous guilt" : Horace Walpole and the drama of incest / Paul Baines; value: Burke, radical cosmopolitanism, and the debates on patriotism in the 1790s / Evan Radcliffe; value: Writing women into history : redefining gender and citenship in post-Revolutionary America / Peter C. Messer; value: Vitalizing nature and naturalizing the humanities in the late eighteenth century / Peter Hanns Reill