Studies In Eighteenth-century Culture

by Ingrassia, Catherine; Ravel, Jeffrey S.

• ISBN13: 9780801881923
• ISBN10: 0801881927
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-30
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

With this well-illustrated new volume, the SECC continues its tradition of publishing innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the interpretive edge.Essays include:Misty Anderson, Our Purpose is the Same: Whitefield, Foote, and the Theatricality of MethodismTili Boon Cuillé, La Vraisemblance du merveilleux: Operatic Aesthetics in Cazotte's Fantastic FictionSimon Dickie, Joseph Andrews and the Great Laughter Debate: The Roasting of AdamsLynn Festa, Cosmetic Differences: The Changing Faces of England and FranceBlake Gerard, All that the heart wishes: Changing Views toward Sentimentality Reflected in Visualizations of Sterne's Maria, 1773-1888Jennifer Keith, The Sins of Sensibility and the Challenge of Antislavery PoetryMary Helen McMurran, Aphra Behn from Both Sides: Translation in the Atlantic WorldLeslie Richardson, Leaving her Father's House: Locke, Astell, and Clarissa's Body PoliticSandra Sherman, The Wealth of Nations in the 1790sAlan Sikes, Snip Snip Here, Snip Snip There, and a Couple of Tra La Las: The Rise and Fall of the Castrato SingerRivka Swenson, Representing Modernity in Jane Barker's Galesia Trilogy: Jacobite Allegory and the Aesthetics of the Patch-Work Subject

Author Biography

Catherine Ingrassia is an associate professor of English and director of the Masters Program in English at Virginia Commonwealth University. Jeff Ravel is an associate professor of history at MIT.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note	ix
Aphra Behn from Both Sides: Translation in the Atlantic World
MARY HELEN MCMURRAN	1	(24)
Cosmetic Differences: The Changing Faces of England and France
LYNN FESTA	25	(30)
Representing Modernity in Jane Barker's Galesia Trilogy: Jacobite Allegory and the Patch-Work Aesthetic
RIVKA SWENSON	55	(26)
The Wealth of Nations in 1790's
SANDRA SHERMAN	81	(16)
The Formal Challenges of Antislavery Poetry
JENNIFER KEITH	97	(28)
"Our Purpose is the Same": Whitefield, Foote, and the Theatricality of Methodism
MISTY G. ANDERSON	125	(26)
Leaving Her Father's House: Astell, Locke, and Clarissa's Body Politic
LESLIE RICHARDSON	151	(22)
La Vraisemblance du merveilleux: Operatic Aesthetics in Cazotte's Fantastic Fiction
TILI BOON CUILLÉ	173	(24)
"Snip Snip Here, Snip Snip There, and a Couple of Tra La Las": The Castrato and the Nature of Sexual Difference
ALAN SIKES	197	(34)
"All that the heart wishes": Changing Views toward Sentimentality Reflected in Visualizations of Sterne's Maria, 1773-1888*
W.B. GERARD	231	(40)
Joseph Andrews and the Great Laughter Debate
SIMON DICKIE	271	(62)
Contributors	333	(2)
Executive Board 2004-2005	335	(1)
Patron Members	336	(1)
Sponsoring Members	337	(1)
Institutional Members	338	(1)
Index	339