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The ten essays in Literature and the Arts explore the intermedial plenitude of eighteenth-century English culture, honoring the memory of James Anderson Winn, whose work demonstrated how seeing that interplay of the arts and literature was essential to a full understanding of Restoration and eighteenth-century English culture.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
ANNA BATTIGELLI
1 Laughter from on High: The Arts of Contempt in
Restoration England
STEVEN N. ZWICKER
2 Staging Davenant; or, Macbeth, the Musical
AMANDA EUBANKS WINKLER
3 The Arts of Memory in Absalom and Achitophel:
Dryden’s Response to Milton and Marvell
PAUL HAMMOND
4 Peacocks and Rainbows: Visual Spectacle and
Allegorical Performance in Albion and Albanius
ANDREW R. WALKLING
5 “The Dyrham Decades”: The Cultural Connections
of an English Country House, 1690–1720
DAVID HOPKINS
6 Domenico Scarlatti: “Jesting with Art”
CEDRIC D. REVERAND II
7 Queen Anne’s Other Women
PAULA R. BACKSCHEIDER
8 Anne Donnellan: Friend of the Arts
ELLEN T. HARRIS
9 Responding to Emma in 1816: Reviewers, Readers,and “Opinions”
PETER SABOR
10 Elizabeth Rivers and Christopher Smart:
Eighteenth-Century Poetry across Time and Form
MELISSA SCHOENBERGER
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
ANNA BATTIGELLI is a professor of English at SUNY Plattsburgh. She is the editor of Art and Artifact in Austen (2020) and the author of Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind (1998). Together with Laura Stevens, she edited a special topics issue of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature on Eighteenth-Century English Women and Catholicism (2012).
