Studies in Eighteenth-century Culture

Informationen zum Autor 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. Linda Zionkowsk i 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 . Klappentext Shteir, Flora primavera or Flora meretrix? Iconography, Gender, and ScienceKaren Melvin, A Potential Saint Thwarted: Religion and the Politics of Sanctity in Late-Eighteenth Century New Spain Margaret R. Ewalt, Christianity, Coca, and Commerce in the Peruvian MercuryHoward Irving, Haydn and the Politics of the Picturesque Richard Wittman, The Hut and the Altar: Architectural Origins and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France Göran Blix, The Occult Roots of Realism: Balzac, Mesmer, and Second Sight Zusammenfassung Undertaking critical investigation of eighteenth-century ideas and practices, this book discusses the possibilities and limitations of print; royal portraiture, the sentimental novel, and botanical classification through the categories of gender; and, the European experience in the 1700s.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey S. (EDT)/ Zionkowski Ravel
• Assisted by: Jeffrey S Ravel (Editor), Jeffrey S. Ravel (Editor), Jeffrey S. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Ravel (Editor), Ravel Jeffrey S. (Editor), Linda Zionkowski (Editor), Zionkowski Linda (Editor)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.03.2007
• EAN: 9780801885983
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8598-3
• No. of pages: 298
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 203 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Studies in the Eighteenth Century; Studies in Eighteenth-Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Europe, Cultural Studies, The arts: general issues, ART / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800, The arts: general topics