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Studies in eighteenth-century culture, vol. 11 /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Other Authors: Payne, Harry C. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Madison] : Published for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies by the University of Wisconsin Press, 1982.
Subjects:
Civilization, Modern > 18th century.
Eighteenth century.
Table of Contents:
  • The British defend their constitution in political cartoons and literature / Herbert M. Atherton
  • Beaumarchais and Voltaire's Samson / M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet
  • Hunt, conquest, trial : Lovelace and the metaphors of the rake / Penelope Biggs
  • The theory and practice of the wise and virtuous man : reflections on Adam Smith's response to Hume's deathbed wish / T.D. Campbell, Ian Ross
  • Jansenism in Diderot's La religieuse / Huguette Cohen
  • Blake and the two sublimes / V.A. De Luca
  • A portrait not by Guido Reni of a girl who is not Beatrice Cenci / Barbara Groseclose
  • "Between th' petticoat and breeches" : sexual warfare and the marriage debate in Hudibras / William C. Horne
  • The decline of military values : the theme of the deserter in eighteenth-century French literature / Adrienne D. Hytier
  • The transatlantic background of Thomas Jefferson's ideas of executive power / Ralph Ketcham
  • The dream of Ezra Stiles : Bishop Berkeley's haunting of New England / William H. McGowan
  • Reform or ruin : "a revolution in female manners" / Mitzi Myers
  • Drawing-- a "polite recreation" in eighteenth-century England / Kim Sloan
  • Science as fine art : another look at BoullĂ©e's Cenotaph for Newton / Barbara Maria Stafford
  • Money for honor : damages for criminal conversation / Susan Staves
  • Johnson, humanism, and "the last great revolution of the intellectual world" / J.E. Svilpis
  • One glorious temple of God : eighteenth-century accommodation to changing reality in New England / Douglas H. Sweet
  • Goethe's conception of music as mediator and "element" / J.M. Tudor
  • The sexual politics of landscape : images of Venus in eighteenth-century English poetry and landscape gardening / James G. Turner
  • Of the conversation of women : the female Quixote and the dream of perfection / Leland E. Warren
  • The agrarian ideal in eighteenth-century Spain / Michael R. Weisser.