Studies In Eighteenth-Century Culture

Informationen zum Autor Catherine Ingrassia is an associate professor of English and director of the Masters Program in English at Virginia Commonwealth University. Jeffrey S. Ravel is an associate professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Contested Parterre: Public Theater and French Political Culture, 1680–1791 (Cornell, 1999) and a cofounder of CESAR, a Web site devoted to the study of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French theater. Klappentext With this well-illustrated new volume! the SECC continues its tradition of publishing innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the interpretive edge. Essays include: Misty Anderson! Our Purpose is the Same: Whitefield! Foote! and the Theatricality of Methodism Tili Boon Cuill! La Vraisemblance du merveilleux: Operatic Aesthetics in Cazotte's Fantastic Fiction Simon Dickie! Joseph Andrews and the Great Laughter Debate: The Roasting of Adams Lynn Festa! Cosmetic Differences: The Changing Faces of England and France Blake Gerard! All that the heart wishes: Changing Views toward Sentimentality Reflected in Visualizations of Sterne's Maria! 1773-1888 Jennifer Keith! The Sins of Sensibility and the Challenge of Antislavery Poetry Mary Helen McMurran! Aphra Behn from Both Sides: Translation in the Atlantic World Leslie Richardson! Leaving her Father's House: Locke! Astell! and Clarissa's Body Politic Sandra Sherman! The Wealth of Nations in the 1790s Alan Sikes! Snip Snip Here! Snip Snip There! and a Couple of Tra La Las: The Rise and Fall of the Castrato Singer Rivka Swenson! Representing Modernity in Jane Barker's Galesia Trilogy: Jacobite Allegory and the Aesthetics of the Patch-Work Subject Zusammenfassung Essays include: Misty Anderson, Our Purpose is the Same: Whitefield, Foote, and the Theatricality of Methodism; Tili Boon Cuille, La Vraisemblance du merveilleux: Operatic Aesthetics in Cazotte's Fantastic Fiction; Simon Dickie, Joseph Andrews and the Great Laughter Debate: The Roasting of Adams; Lynn Festa, Cosmetic....

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• Authors: Catherine (EDT)/ Ravel Ingrassia
• Assisted by: Catherine Ingrassia (Editor), Catherine E Ingrassia (Editor), Catherine E. Ingrassia (Editor), Catherine E. (Virginia Commonwealth University) Ingrassia (Editor), Jeff Ravel (Editor), Jeffrey S Ravel (Editor), Jeffrey S. Ravel (Editor), Jeffrey S. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Ravel (Editor)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2005
• EAN: 9780801881923
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8192-3
• No. of pages: 345
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Studies in the Eighteenth Century; Studies in Eighteenth-Century
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, History - General History, HISTORY / Essays