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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 Zionkowski is a professor of English at Ohio University and the author of Men's Work: Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Poetry, 1660-1784 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001). Klappentext This well-illustrated new volume continues the tradition of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture of publishing innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the interpretive edge. Contents include: ASECS Women's Caucus Roundtable: The Career and Work of Madelyn Gutwirth Carol Blum, Madeleine Dobie, Madelyn Gutwirth, Katherine Jensen, Sarah Maza, Karyna Szmurlo, and Janet Whately The Plantation and the Polis: Reform Ideology and the Generic Structure in Matthew Lewis' Journal of the West Indian Proprietor Ellen Malenas Give Us Our Daily Breadfruit: Bread Substitution in the Pacific in the Eighteenth Century Vanessa Smith The People Things Make: Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and the Properties of Self Mark Blackwell Covering Sexual Disguise: Passing Women and Generic Restraint Fraser Easton Sapphic Self-Fashioning in the Baroque Era: Women's Petrarchan Parody in English and Spanish, 1650-1700 Dianne Dugaw and Amanda W. Powell "Why, you . . . I oughta' . . . " Aposiopesis and the Natural Language of the Passions, 1670-1770 Robert G. Dimit From Geneva to Glasgow: Rousseau and Adam Smith on the Theatre and Commercial Society Ryan Hanley Faux savants, femmes philosophes, and philosophes amoureux: Foibles of the philosophe on the Eighteenth-Century French Stage Anne Vila The New Paris in the Guise of the Old: Louis Sebastian Mercier from Old Regime to Revolution Joanna Stalnaker Carriages, Conversation, and A Sentimental Journey Danielle Bobker Hyperborean Atlantis: Jean-Sylvian Bailly, Madame Blavatsky, and the Nazi Myth Dan Edelstein Zusammenfassung Presents an innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the interpretive edge. The contents include: "Caucus Roundtable: The Career and Work of Madelyn Gutwirth", "The Plantation and the Polis: Reform Ideology and the Generic Structure in Matthew Lewis' Journal of the West Indian Proprietor", and more....
