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Informationen zum Autor 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 . Downing A. Thomas is a professor of French at the University of Iowa, where he is also associate provost and dean of International Programs. He is the author or coeditor of several books, including Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime: 1647–1785 , Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries in Musical Drama , and Music and the Origins of Language: Theories from the French Enlightenment . Lisa F. Cody is an associate dean of the faculty and an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College. She is the author of Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons . Klappentext Malin, The Good, the Bad, and the Sentimental Savage: Native Americans in Representative Novels from the Spanish EnlightenmentSimon During, Church, State, and Modernization: English Literature as Gentlemanly Knowledge after 1688Julia Rudolph, "That Blunderbuss of Law" Giles Jacob, Abridgement, and Print CultureAnne H. Stevens, Forging Literary History: Historical Fiction and Literary Forgery in Eighteenth-Century BritainJennifer Thorn, "All beautiful in woe" Gender, Nation, and Phillis Wheatley's NiobeHilary Englert, "This Rhapsodical Work" Object-Narrators and the Figure of Sterne Zusammenfassung Presents essays that share a common concern with investigating Enlightenment categories of historical understanding and determining how these categories helped shape Enlightenment culture. This work addresses the question of how eighteenth-century writers make sense of the past for their own practical! aesthetic! and ideological purposes.
