Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (Volume 42) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1421409518 ISBN 13: 9781421409511

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Volume 42 explores material culture, the visual arts, literature, opera, and the stage during the long eighteenth century in France, Britain, the Americas, and China. These essays examine encounters between Europe and the Americas, the Orient and the Occident, as well as the challenges of translation. Several authors analyze the role of gender in literature and life, exploring themes of intimacy, interiority, authority, and knowledge.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. Christopher M. S. Johns, "Erotic Spirituality and the Catholic Revival in Napoleonic Paris: The Curious History of Antonio Canova's Penitent Magdalene"

2. Jeffrey M. Leichman, "Beaumarchais' Revolution: Genre, Politics, and Theatricality in La Mère coupable"

3. Ed Goehring, "The Jesuit and the Libertine: Some early reception of Mozart's Don Giovanni"

4. Kristina Kleutghen, "Staging Europe: Theatricality and Painting at the Chinese Imperial Court"

5. Ana Elena González Treviño, "'Kings and their crowns': signs of monarchy and the spectacle of New World otherness in heroic drama and public pageantry"

6. Annie Smart, "Re-Reading Nature and Exoticism in Chateaubriand's Voyage en Amérique: A Case for the Biophilia Effect"

7. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, "Beauty and the Beast: Animals in the Visual and Material Culture of the Toilette"

8. Hector Reyes, "Drawing and History in the Comte de Caylus' Recueil d'antiquités"

9. Laura Miller, "Publishers and Gendered Readership in English-Language Editions of Il Newtonianismo per le Dame"

10. Heidi Bostic, "Graffigny's Self, Graffigny's Friend: Intimate Sharing in the Correspondance 1750–52"

11. Julie Park, "The Poetics of Enclosure in Sense and Sensibility"

12. Caroline Austin Bolt, "Mediating Happiness: Performances of Jane Austen's Narrators"

13. Kate C. Hamilton, "She 'Came up Stairs into the World:' Elizabeth Barry and Restoration Celebrity"

About this title

About the Author:

Lisa Forman Cody is an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College. She is the author of Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons.

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1421409518
• ISBN 13: 9781421409511
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Cody Lisa Forman