The interdisciplinary essays in this volume represent innovative scholarship on the Enlightenment in Britain, Europe, and North America. Contributors and contents: Dennis Moore, Colloquy with the Author: Vincent Carretta and Equiano, the African Toni Bowers, Behn's Monmouth: Sedition, Seduction, and Tory Ideology in the 1680s Tita Chico, Details and Frankness: Affective Relations in Sir Charles Gradison Rebecca M. Mills, 'To be both Patroness and Friend': Patronage, Friendship, and Protofeminism in the Life of Elizabeth Thomas (1675-1731) Catherine M. Jaffe, Noticia de la vida y obras del Conde de Rumford (1802) by Maria Lorenza de los Rios, Marquesa de Fuerte-Hijar: Authorizing a Space for Female Charity Laura Mandell, Prayer, Feeling, Action: Anna Barbauld and the Public Worship Controversy Chloe Wigston Smith, Dressing the British: Clothes, Customs, and Nation in W. H. Pyne's The Costume of Great Britain Heidi E. Kraus, David's Roman Vedute Elizabeth Claire, Monstrous Choreographies: Waltzing, Madness, and Miscarriage Douglas S. Harvey, Strolling Players in Albany, Montreal, and Quebec City, 1797 and 1810: Performance, Class, and Empire Woodruff D. Smith, Corruption and Eighteenth-Century Social Science: Mapping the Space of Political Economy

About the Author
Linda Zionkowski is a professor of English at Ohio University. She is the author of Men's Work: Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Poetry, 1660-1784 and the coeditor of The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England. Downing Thomas is a professor of French at the University of Iowa. He is the author or coeditor of several books, including Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Regime: 1647-1785 and Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries in Musical Drama.


Book Information
ISBN 9780801892974
Author Linda Zionkowski
Format Hardback
Page Count 312
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 544g