Publisher's Synopsis
The interdisciplinary essays in this volume represent innovative scholarship on the Enlightenment in Britain, Europe, and North America.
Contributors and Contents
Richard Barney, The Splenetic Sublime: Anne Finch, Melancholic Physiology, and Post/Modernity
Sarah Cohen, Animal Performance in Oudry's Illustrations to the Fables of La Fontaine
JoLynn Edwards, The Conti Sales of 1777 and 1779 and their Impact on the Parisian Art Market
Ingrid Tague, Companions, Servants, or Slaves?: Considering Animals in Eighteenth Century Britain
Matthieu P. Raillard, Deism, the Sublime and the Formulation of Early Romanticism in Juan Meléndez Valdés and José Cadalso
Romira Worvill, From Prose peinture to Dramatic tableau: Diderot, Fénelon and the Emergence of the Pictorial Aesthetic in France
Julie Candler Hayes, Friendship and the Female Moralist
Teresa Michals, "Like a Spoiled Actress off the Stage": Anti-Theatricality, Nature, and the Novel
Adam Beach, Behn's Oroonoko, the Gold Coast, and Slavery in the Early-Modern Atlantic World
Eric Gidal, "A gross and barbarous composition": Melancholy, National Character, and the Critical Reception of Hamlet in the Eighteenth Century Character
Nicole von Germeten, Prostitution and the Captain's Wife: A Public and Notorious Scandal in Eighteenth-Century Cartagena de Indias
Margaret Boyle, Chronicling Women's Containment in Bartolomé Arzans de Orsúa y Vela's History of Potsi
