STUDIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE by Michelle Burnham (Editor), Eve Tavor Bannet (Editor) ( 9781421419367 )

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Title:

STUDIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE

Volume:

Volume 45

By:

Michelle Burnham (Editor), Eve Tavor Bannet (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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142141936X

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9781421419367

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Publisher:

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 April, 2016

Pages:

304

Description:

Richard Pulteney; Betty Joseph on capitalism and early English fictional treatments of China and India; Dwight Codr on hairs and sneezes in Pope's Rape of the Lock; John Greene on magic lanterns and peepshow boxes in Rousseau's Reveries; Sara Munoz-Muriana on mirrors and gender in Spanish comedy; and David Mazella on cultivation and improvement in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Synopsis:

The volume's first section treats the politics of genre: Maria Soledad Barbon on the colonial politics of panegyric in Peru; Amanda Johnson on Thomas Jefferson's use of Ossianic romance; Catherine M. Jaffe on the gender politics of translation in a Spanish novel; Cecilia Feilla on French Revolutionary politics in London harlequinades; and Rebecca Tierney-Hynes on the economics of comedic form in Susanna Centlivre's plays. The volume's second section, on textual materialisms, includes Daniel Leonard on fetishism and figurism in Charles de Brosses; Beth Fowkes Tobin on the notebooks of the naturalist Dr. Richard Pulteney; Betty Joseph on capitalism and early English fictional treatments of China and India; Dwight Codr on hairs and sneezes in Pope's Rape of the Lock; John Greene on magic lanterns and peepshow boxes in Rousseau's Reveries; Sara Munoz-Muriana on mirrors and gender in Spanish comedy; and David Mazella on cultivation and improvement in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

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12 Illustrations, black and white

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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