Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

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 Methodism; Tili Boon Cuille, La Vraisemblance du merveilleux: Operatic Aesthetics in Cazotte's Fantastic Fiction; Simon Dickie, Joseph Andrews and the Great Laughter Debate: The Roasting of Adams; Lynn Festa, Cosmetic Differences: The Changing Faces of England and France; Blake Gerard, All that the heart wishes: Changing Views toward Sentimentality Reflected in Visualizations of Sterne's Maria, 1773-1888; Jennifer Keith, The Sins of Sensibility and the Challenge of Antislavery Poetry; Mary Helen McMurran, Aphra Behn from Both Sides: Translation in the Atlantic World; Leslie Richardson, Leaving her Father's House: Locke, Astell, and Clarissa's Body Politic; Sandra Sherman, The Wealth of Nations in the 1790s;Alan Sikes, Snip Snip Here, Snip Snip There, and a Couple of Tra La Las: The Rise and Fall of the Castrato Singer; Rivka Swenson, Representing Modernity in Jane Barker's Galesia Trilogy: Jacobite Allegory and the Aesthetics of the Patch-Work Subject.