The first section of this volume consists of a panel, ""Transnational Quixotes and Quixotisms,"" introduced by Catherine Jaffe. It includes essays by Amelia Dale on how female quixotes differed from male quixotes in eighteenth-century England; by Elena Deanda on the Marquis de Sade as a quixotic figure; by Elizabeth Franklin Lewis on English ......
The interdisciplinary essays in this volume represent innovative scholarship on the Enlightenment in Britain, Europe, and North America.Contributors and ContentsRichard Barney, The Splenetic Sublime: Anne Finch, Melancholic Physiology, and Post/ModernitySarah Cohen, Animal Performance in Oudry's Illustrations to the Fables of La FontaineJoLynn ......
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture reflects new and highly promising directions of research in the field. The latest volume contains essays by Paula R. Backscheider on theatrical spectacle and by April London on anecdote in Sarah Fielding, as well as considerations of translation in Dennis by Sarah B. Stein, of family in Defoe by Ann Campbell, ......
Always interdisciplinary, the field of eighteenth-century studies has recently become genuinely international. To reflect this global emphasis, this volume of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture gathers four essays under the rubric of ''The Geography of Enlightenment.'' Set in a variety of local habitations from the European periphery to the ......
Throughout the eighteenth century, shifts in political power and social structures were making their way across Europe and into the New World. In this volume of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, editors Ourida Mostefai and Catherine Ingrassia have brought together four clusters of related essays that explore the complexities of national and ......
With this well-illustrated new volume, the SECC continues its tradition of publishing innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the interpretive edge. Essays include: Misty Anderson, Our Purpose is the Same: Whitefield, Foote, and the Theatricality of MethodismTili Boon Cuillé, La Vraisemblance du merveilleux: Operatic Aesthetics in Cazotte's ......
Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters is both a gonzo rush-capturing the bristling energy of the Rolling Stones and the times in which they lived-and a wide-eyed reflection on why the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World needed the world's greatest rock 'n' roll drummer.
Discover the power of song in James Campion's Take a Sad Song: The Emotional Currency of Hey Jude. Music columnist and podcast host Campion shows why the Beatles' epic 1968 single Hey Jude transcends time, taking readers through the song's riveting personal story, its importance during the fractious days of a pop culture phenomenon, and its impact ......
Evaluating the careers of eminent scholars and practitioners, this volume identifies and describes particularly important works, pinpoints specific attributes that led to great impact and offers practical advice to students and professionals striving to achieve substantial impact in their own work.
