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Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (Hardcover)
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Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (Hardcover)
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Addressing the diverse ways in which eighteenth-century
contemporaries of different nations and cultures created visual,
verbal, and material representations in various media. Focused on
conventions of technology, labor, and tolerance on the one hand,
and on artistic intentionality on the other hand, these essays also
address the implications of this past in our own research today.
The first section, "Representing Humans and Technology," opens with
the late Srinivas Aravamudan's presidential address, "From
Enlightenment to Anthropocene." This is followed by a panel of
essays on labor and industry, which includes Valentina Tikoff on
the overlap between welfare and the technical training of Spanish
orphans for warfare; Susan Egenolf on mythological representations
of industry; Susan Libby on the Encyclopedie's mechanical
representations of sugar production on the plantations; and Jon
Klancher on technological manuals. The second section, "Inside the
Artist's Studio," opens with Shearer West's ASECS/BSECS lecture on
"selfiehood" and eighteenth-century celebrity. This is followed by
papers on self-promoting self-representations-by painters in Wendy
Wassyng Roworth's essay on Angelica Kauffman's studio in Rome and
Francesca Bove's essay on George Morland's studio; and by a
self-promoting French society lady in Heather McPherson's essay on
Madame Recamier's portraits. This section concludes with Leith
Davis's essay on representations in the contemporary press of
Ireland and the Glorious Revolution. The final section addresses
emerging issues in two forums. The first reconsiders issues of
intentionality: participants include Stephanie Insley Hershinow,
Sarah Ellenzweig, Edmund J. Goehring, Thomas Salem Manganaro, and
Kathleen Lubey. The second section reconsiders issues of
tolerance-and the association of Enlightenment tolerance with
Voltaire during the recent Charlie Hebdo rallies in Paris.
Participants include Jeffrey M. Leichman, Reginald McGinnis, Jack
Iverson, Faycal Falaky, Ourida Mostefai, and Elena Russo.
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