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Title: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Condition: New
EAN: 9780801899089
ISBN: 9780801899089
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardback
Type: Hardback
Release Date: 13/06/2011
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 544g
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0801899087
Description: This volume spotlights the visual arts, vision, and blindness during the Enlightenment in France, Britain, and Germany. The essays range from exploring the musical and cultural impact of an eighteenth-century virtuoso violinist to analyzing lotteries as romance in eighteenth-century England. Contributors and Contents: Mary Sheriff, The King, the Trickster and the Gorgon: On the Illusions of Rococo ArtBeverly Wilcox, The Hissing of Monsieur PaginJessica Richard, Lotteries and the Romance of Chance in Eighteenth-Century EnglandEmrys D.Jones, 'Friendship like mine / Throws all Respects behind it': Male Companionship and the Cult of Frederick, Prince of WalesDavid Hagan, Threading the Needle: Problems in Reading Dennis Diderot's La lettre sur les aveuglesJosephine Touma, From the Playhouse to the Page: Some Visual Sources for Watteau's Theatrical UniverseDaniel O'Quinn, Diversionary Tactics and Coercive Acts: John Burgoyne's Fete ChampetreShelley King, Portrait of a Marriage: John and Amelia Opie and the Sister ArtsDavid Fairer, Where Fuming Trees Refresh the Thirsty AirDorothea Von Mucke, Iconic Turn and the Power of Images: Goethe's Elective AffinitiesLaure Marcellesi, Louis-Sebastien Mercier: Prophet, Abolitionist, Colonialist
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Lisa Forman Cody (Edited by), Downing A. Thomas (Edited by)
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Literary Criticism, Arts & Photography, History
Author: Lisa Forman Cody
Release Year: 2011

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