Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

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18th century
aesthetics
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cultural history
Enlightenment
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European history
ideology
literary history

Product details

  • ISBN 9780801887956
  • Weight: 544g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 27 May 2008
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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The essays in this volume share a common concern with investigating Enlightenment categories of historical understanding and determining how these categories helped shape Enlightenment culture. The contributors address the question of how eighteenth-century writers make sense of the past-how they interpret it, give it meaning and form, and deploy it for their own practical, aesthetic, and ideological purposes. Contributors and contents: Frank Palmeri, Conjectural History and the Origins of Sociology Stuart Peterfreund, From the Forbidden to the Familiar: The Way of Natural Theology Leading up to and beyond the Long Eighteenth Century Tony C. Brown, The Barrows of History Shane Agin, Sex Education in the Enlightened Nation Suzanne R. Pucci, Snapshots of Family Intimacy in the French Eighteenth Century: The Case of Paul et Virginie Ana Hontanilla, Images of Barbaric Spain in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing Mark R. Malin, The Good, the Bad, and the Sentimental Savage: Native Americans in Representative Novels from the Spanish Enlightenment Simon During, Church, State, and Modernization: English Literature as Gentlemanly Knowledge after 1688 Julia Rudolph, "That Blunderbuss of Law": Giles Jacob, Abridgement, and Print Culture Anne H. Stevens, Forging Literary History: Historical Fiction and Literary Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain Jennifer Thorn, "All beautiful in woe": Gender, Nation, and Phillis Wheatley's Niobe Hilary Englert, "This Rhapsodical Work": Object-Narrators and the Figure of Sterne
Linda Zionkowski is a professor of English at Ohio University. She is the author of Men's Work: Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Poetry, 1660-1784 and the coeditor of The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England. Downing Thomas is a professor of French at the University of Iowa. He is the author or coeditor of several books, including Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Regime: 1647-1785 and Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries in Musical Drama.