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Studies in eighteenth-century culture. Volume 33

Drawing on unusual archival materials, addressing a variety of nonliterary or extratextual sources, employing new theoretical approaches, and offering innovative discussions of established works, the essays gathered in the latest volume of Studies in Eighteenth- Century Culture reflect the most exciting new directions of research.
eBook, English, ©2004
Published by the Johns Hopkins University Press for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Baltimore, ©2004
1 online resource (xiii, 453 pages : illustrations).
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"Le plus fort lien" : sentimental fixation and spectacles of suffering in Les Liaisons dangereuses / Neil Saccamano
Ladies of ill-repute : the South Sea bubble, The Caribbean, and The Jamaica lady / Melissa K. Downes
Money or mind? : Cecilia, the novel, and the real madness of selfhood / Susan C. Greenfield
The infant's petitions : an English poetics of foundling reception, 1741-1837 / Laura Schattschneider
Marginal writers and the 'literary market' : defining a new field of authorship in eighteenth century France / Geoffrey Turnovsky
Dreams of stone : femininity in the eighteenth-century sculptural imagination / Caroline Weber
"'To sing the toils of each revolving year ' : song and poetic authority in Stephen Duck's 'The thresher's labour'" / James Mulholland
Epistolary relations : Walpole and Cole / George E. Haggerty
Sea tales : nature and liberty in a Seaman's journal / April Shelford
Wants and goods : advertisement and desire in Haywood and Defoe / Barbara Benedict
Prev́ost ou l'exotisme tragique : l'épisode américain dans Cleveland / Laurence Mall. Casanova, the novel, and the woman as desiring subject : the case of Bettina / Ted Emery
"What do you think laws were made for?" : prison reform discourse and the English Jacobin novel / Alexander H. Pitofsky
Learning from experience, or not : from Chrysippus to Rasselas / Jeffrey Barnouw
Meditations on beauty. The ecliptic of the beautiful / Timothy Erwin
Pygmalion's "Wanton kind of chace" : Hogarth, Rowlandson, and the "line of beauty" / Adam Komisaruk
A wanton chase in a foreign place : Hogarth and the gendering of exoticism / David Porter
The return of beauty : purity and the neo-classical foundation of modern art / Peter C. Sonderen
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