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 within the field.
The novel is a dominant focus, and the contributors to this
volume offer new perspectives on the genre itself or bold new
readings of such canonical texts as "Les Liaisons dangereuses,"
"Cecilia," "Histoire de M. Cleveland," and the early fiction of
Daniel Defoe, as well as Casanova's novelistic autobiography,
"Histoire de ma vie." Some essays use unusual or little-known
sources or materials: --the early English novel, "The Jamaica
Lady"; an anonymous British seaman's journal; and "infant's
petitions," the letters that accompanied babies left at foundling
hospitals. Other essays examine the complicated constructions of
identity and authorship that emerge in various disciplines and
genres: depictions of statuary in eighteenth-century French
painting and literature; representations of the French literary
marketplace; the role of singing in the poetry of Stephen Duck; the
presence of ancient Stoic and Baconian principles in Samuel
Johnson's moral writing; and the complicated correspondence between
Horace Walpole and William Cole. The volume concludes with a
special section of essays meditating on the complex
eighteenth-century discourse on beauty and aesthetics.
Contributors: Jeffrey Barnouw, Barbara Benedict, Melissa Downes,
Ted Emery, Timothy Erwin, Susan Greenfield, George Haggerty, Adam
Komisaruk, Laurence Mall, James Mullholland, Alexander Pitosfsky,
David Porter, Neil Saccamano, Laura Schattschneider, April
Shelford, Peter Sonderen, Geoffrey Turnovsky, Caroline Weber
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