eighteenthcenturystudies
Quarters
TheAccommodationofthe BritishArmyandtheComing oftheAmericanRevolution
JohnGilbertMcCurdy
JournaloftheAmerican RevolutionBookoftheYear Award
WhenAmericansdeclared independencein1776,they citedKingGeorgeIII"forquarteringlargebodiesof armedtroopsamongus."In Quarters,JohnGilbert McCurdyexploresthesocialandpoliticalhistory behindcharge,offeringanauthoritativeaccountof thehousingofBritishsoldiersinAmerica.
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WhatPornography Knows
SexandSocialProtestsince theEighteenthCentury
KathleenLubey
WhatPornographyKnows offersanewhistoryof
TheBeautifulSoul AestheticMoralityinthe EighteenthCentury RobertE.Norton
Formanyeighteenth-century Europeanphilosophersand writers,thebeautifulsoulwas asymbolofenlightened humanity,carryingwithitthe possibilitythataesthetic beautyandmoralgoodnesswouldbefusedinanew, indivisibleunity.InthefirstbookinEnglishonthe subject,RobertE.Nortonfollowsthefortunesofthis culturalicon,exploringthereasonsforbothitsinitial popularityanditssubsequentdeclineasacultural idealduringtheEnlightenment.
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SingersinMozart's Vienna DorotheaLink
eighteenthcentury,its nineteenth-centuryrepublication,anditsappearance in1960spaperbacks.Throughclosetextualstudy, Lubeyshowshowthesetextswereeditedacross timetobecomewhatwethinkpornographyis—a genrefocusedprimarilyonsex. STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS September2022312pp 9781503633117
TheItalianOpera
DorotheaLinkexamines singers’voicesandcasting practicesinlateeighteenthcenturyItalianoperaas exemplifiedinVienna’scourt operafrom1783to1791.The investigationintothesingers’voicesproceedsontwo levels:understandingtheperformersintermsofthe vocal-dramaticcategoriesemployedinoperaatthe time;andcreatingvocalprofilesfortheprincipal singersfromthemusiccomposedexpresslyforthem.
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AdriftonanInlandSea
MisinformationandtheLimitsof EmpireintheBrazilianBacklands
HalLangfur
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AdriftonanInlandSea isabeautifully narratedhistoryoflateeighteenth-and earlynineteenth-centuryBrazilthatreveals itshinterlandsascrucialsitesforimperial andnationalprojects.Tracinginformation gatheringasmediatedbystateagents, settlers,andIndigenousandAfricandescendedpeoples,HalLangfuroffersan innovativeaccountofBrazilian territorializationandstatepower."
KirstenSchultz,SetonHallUniversity
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January2023456pp 9781503633964 £29.99 PB now £20.99
BorderlandsofSlavery
TheStruggleoverCaptivityandPeonage intheAmericanSouthwest
WilliamS.Kiser
Winnerofthe2018HistoricalSocietyof NewMexicoGasparPerezdeVillagra Award
BorderlandsofSlavery exploreshowthe existenceoftwoinvoluntarylabor systems—MexicanpeonageandIndian captivity—inthenineteenth-century Southwestimpactedthetransformationof America'sjudicialandpoliticalinstitutions duringtheantebellum,CivilWar,and Reconstructioneras.
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DeathandtheBodyinthe Eighteenth-CenturyNovel
JoleneZigarovich
Drawingonavarietyofhistorical discourses—suchaswills,undertaking histories,medicaltreatisesandtextbooks, anatomicalstudies,philosophicaltreatises, andreligioustractsandsermons—the bookcontributestoafullerunderstanding ofthehistoryofdeathinthe Enlightenmentanditsnarrative transformation.
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January202343b&whalftones280pp
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DreamNation
Enlightenment,Colonizationandthe InstitutionofModernGreece,TwentyFifthAnniversaryEdition
StathisGourgouris
Againstabackdropofnationalistviolence duringthe1990s,thisbookchallenged standardanalysesofnationformationby elaboratingonthenation’sdream-likehold overthemodernsocialimagination.This 25thAnniversaryeditionincludesanew prefaceaddressingdevelopmentsinthe socialandpoliticalconditionsofanow globalizedworld.
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FictionWithoutHumanity
AwardedtheKenshurPrizebytheCenter forEighteenth-CenturyStudies,Indiana University
Drawingontheestrangingperspectivesof nonhumancreaturesandinanimatethings inriddles,fables,novels,scientific treatises,andtrompel'oeilandstill-life painting, FictionWithoutHumanity offersa literaryhistoryoflateseventeenth-and earlyeighteenth-centuryeffortstodefine thehuman.
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Person,Animal,ThinginEarly EnlightenmentLiteratureandCulture
LynnFesta
JewsandJourneys TravelandthePerformanceofJewish Identity EditedbyJoshuaLevinson&Orit Bashkin WhathappenswhenJewishauthors— whetherbyforceoroftheirownfreewill, whetherinrealityorintheimagination— travelfromoneplacetoanother? Jewsand Journeys exploreswhatitisabouttravel writingthatenablesittobecomeacentral mechanismforexploringtherealitiesand fictionsofindividualandcollectiveidentity.
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UNIVERSITYOFPENNSYLVANIAPRESS Series:JewishCultureandContexts August20219halftones408pp 9780812252958
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HansUlrichGumbrecht
Philosopher,translator,novelist,artcritic, andeditoroftheEncyclopédie,Denis Diderotwasoneoftheliveliestfiguresof theEnlightenment.HansUlrichGumbrecht exploresthequestionofthisextraordinary intellectual'splaceinthelegacyofthe eighteenthcentury.
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ResoundingtheSublime
MirandaEvaStanyon
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TheAgeofIntoxication
OriginsoftheGlobalDrugTrade
BenjaminBreen
WinneroftheWilliamH.WelchMedal fromtheAmericanAssociationforthe HistoryofMedicine
Fromthesicklysweettobaccothathelped financetheAtlanticslavetradetothe inebriatingcannabisthatEastIndies merchantssoldincoffeehouses,drugs havebeenentangledwithscienceand commodificationforfivecenturies. The AgeofIntoxication explorestheorigins, andcontinuingimpact,ofthefirstglobal eraofdrugs.
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TheColorofEquality
RaceandCommonHumanityin EnlightenmentThought
DevinJ.Vartija
Enlightenmentthinkersbequeatheda paradoxicallegacytothemodernworld: theyexpandedthepurviewofequality whilesimultaneouslyinventingthemodern conceptofrace. TheColorofEquality makessenseofthistensionby demonstratingthatthesame Enlightenmentimpulse—thenaturalization ofhumanity—underlaybothofthese trends.
TextileOrientalisms
SuchitraChoudhury
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ProseoftheWorld
DenisDiderotandthePeripheryof Enlightenment
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MusicinEnglishandGermanLiterature andAestheticTheory,1670-1850
Whatdoesthesublimesoundlike? MirandaStanyontracescompeting varietiesofthesublime,acrucialmodern aestheticcategory,asshapedbythe antagonisticintimaciesbetweenmusicand language.Inresoundingthehistoryofthe sublimeoverthecourseofthelong eighteenthcentury,shefindsa phenomenonalwaysalreadyresonant.
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CashmereandPaisleyShawlsinBritish LiteratureandCulture
"Thedefinitiveworkonthesubjectof CashmereandPaisleyshawlsinalloftheir intricatesignificanceswithineighteenthandnineteenth-centuryEnglishhistoryand fiction….Magisterial.” -Deborah DenenholzMorse,SaraE.NanceProfessor ofEnglish,CollegeofWilliam&Mary OHIOUNIVERSITYPRESS Series:SeriesinVictorianStudies January2023248pp 9780821425008 £72.00 HB now £50.40
TheDemocraticSoul Spinoza,Tocqueville,and EnlightenmentTheology AaronL.Herold AaronL.Heroldarguesthatdemocracy's currentcrisisarisesfromdissatisfaction
withtheEnlightenment'semphasison rightsoverduties.Usingtheworkof SpinozaandTocqueville,hearticulatesa revisionofliberalismthatrecoversideals ofjusticeandpoliticalmoderationforthe contemporarymoment.
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TheEnlightenedPatrolman
EarlyLawEnforcementinMexicoCity
NicolevonGermeten
“Anoutstandingbookthatwillhelpto reshapeourunderstandingofearly modernityintheSpanishNewWorldas wellasthesocialandculturalhistoryof raceandgenderinoneofthegreaturban centersofthetime.”—WilliamB.Taylor, authorof MagistratesoftheSacred: PriestsandParishionersinEighteenthCenturyMexico
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October20221photo,8maps,6tables,1graph, index350pp
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TheSpiritofFrench Capitalism
EconomicTheologyintheAgeof Enlightenment
CharlyColeman
Drawingontheeconomicwritingsof eighteenth-centuryFrenchtheologians, historianCharlyColemanuncoversthe surprisinginfluenceoftheCatholicChurch onthedevelopmentofcapitalism.Even duringtheEnlightenment,asenseofthe miraculousdidnotwitherunderthecold lightofcalculation.
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March2021392pp
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TheWritingPublic
ParticipatoryKnowledgeProductionin EnlightenmentandRevolutionary France
ElizabethAndrewsBond
DavidH.PinkneyPrize
Inspiredbythereadingandwritinghabits ofcitizensleadinguptotheFrench Revolution, TheWritingPublic isa compellingadditiontothelong-running debateaboutthelinkbetweenthe Enlightenmentandthepoliticalstruggle thatfollowed.
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March20215charts288pp
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UndertheSkin
Tattoos,Scalps,andtheContested LanguageofBodiesinEarlyAmerica
MairinOdle
UndertheSkin investigatestheroleof cross-culturalbodymodificationin seventeenth-centuryandeighteenthcenturyNorthAmerica,revealingthatthe practicesoftattooingandscalpingwere crucialtointeractionsbetweenNativesand newcomers.Thesepermanentandpainful markscouldactassignsofallianceorsigns ofconflict,producingacomplexbodily archiveofcross-culturalentanglement.
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TheGhostintheCity
LuoPingandtheCraftofPaintingin Eighteenth-CenturyChina
MicheleMatteini
Thisstudytakesthereaderintothevibrant artisticandliteraryculturesofBeijing outsidethecourtandtothenetworksof scholars,artists,andentertainersthat turnedtheSouthernCityintoaplacelike nootherintheQingempire.Atthecenter ofthisnarrativelieLuoPing’slayered reflectionsonthemediumofpaintingand itshistoriesandformalconventions.
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LiteraryAuthority
AnEighteenth-CenturyGenealogy
ClaudeWillan
Thisbookistheculturalhistoryofanidea whichnowseemssoself-evidentasbarely tobeworthstating:throughwriting imaginativeliterature,anauthorcan accruesignificantandlastingeconomicand culturalpower.Thisstateofaffairswas deliberatelyinvented.Thisbooktellsthe storyofthatinvention.
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TheBrinySouth
DisplacementandSentimentinthe IndianOceanWorld NienkeBoer
NienkeBoerexaminesthelegalandliterary narrativesofenslaved,indentured,and imprisonedindividualscrossingtheIndian Oceantoshowhowcolonialpowers’ mediationofsentimentandemotionwas centraltotheracializationofthese marginalizedpeoples.
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TheJewishEighteenth Century,Volume2
AEuropeanBiography,1750–1800
ShmuelFeinerTranslatedby JeffreyM.Green
ThesecondvolumeofShmuelFeiner's The JewishEighteenthCentury coversthe periodfrom1750to1800,atimeofeven greaterupheavals,tensions,and challenges.Thechangesthatbeganto emergeatthebeginningoftheeighteenth centurymaturedinthesecondhalf.
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HistoriesofFrench Sexuality
FromtheEnlightenmenttothePresent EditedbyNinaKushner&Andrew IsraelRoss
Coveringtheearlyeighteenthcentury throughthepresent,theessaysin Histories ofFrenchSexuality showhowattentionto thehistoryofsexualitydeepens,changes, challenges,supports,orotherwise complicatesthemajornarrativesofFrench history.
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