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Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (Hardcover)
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The first section of this volume consists of a panel,
"Transnational Quixotes and Quixotisms," introduced by Catherine
Jaffe. It includes essays by Amelia Dale on how female quixotes
differed from male quixotes in eighteenth-century England; by Elena
Deanda on the Marquis de Sade as a quixotic figure; by Elizabeth
Franklin Lewis on English travelers' uses of Spanish cartography;
and by Aaron R. Hanlon on quixotism as a global heuristic, with
reference to the Pacific as well as the Atlantic. The second panel
in the volume, "The Habsburgs and the Enlightenment," is introduced
by Rebecca Messbarger. It includes essays by Rita Krueger on
conflicts between Maria Theresa's view of the Enlightenment and
that of her reigning children; by Julia Doe on Marie Antoinette's
promotion of a new nontraditional kind of opera at the French
court; by R. S. Agin on questions of judicial torture in Austrian
Lombardy; and by Heather Morrison on Habsburg efforts to compete
with other empires in botany as well as diplomacy. The third
section consists of individual essays: Michael B. Guenter on
Britain's subordination of science to imperial goals in the new
world; Richard Frohock on the critique of British imperialism in
John Gay's Polly; Jeffrey Merrick on the French Revolution's
failure to materially alter the legal status of sodomy and suicide;
Adam Potkay, comparing Rousseau and Adam Smith's views of pity and
gratitude; Jeff Loveland, on the methods used by Diderot to edit
the Encyclopedie; and Tamar Mayer, on Jacques-Louis David's use of
mirror reversibility in the composition of his painting, "Oath of
the Horatii."
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