The eighteenth centuries : global networks of enlightenment

The eighteenth centuries : global networks of enlightenment / edited by David T. Gies and Cynthia Wall.

"With essays on book history, literature, anthropology, music, theater, art and architecture, this book examines the Enlightenment across a range of disciplines and geographical boundaries"--

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gies, David Thatcher (Editor), Wall, Cynthia, 1959- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Enlightenment.
Globalization > History > 18th century.
History, Modern > 18th century.
Intellectual life > 18th century.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Knowledge and the lives of books : introduction / Sophia Rosenfeld
  • Enlightenment, some assembly required / Brad Pasanek and Chad Wellmon
  • An inventory of the estate of William Strahan in 1759 / Michael Pickard
  • Understanding an obscure text : the fortunate foundlings and the limits of interdisciplinarity / Patricia Meyer Spacks
  • Human economies : introduction / Andrew O'shaughnessy
  • How long does blood last? Degeneration as Blanqueamiento in the Americas / Ruth Hill
  • Thomas Jefferson : breeding and buying horses, connecting family, friends,and neighbors / Carrie B. Douglass
  • The Jamaican plantation : industrial, global, contested / Louis P. Nelson
  • Artists' geographies : introduction / Richard Will
  • Emotional geographies : Watteau and the fate of women / Mary D. Sheriff
  • Painting New England in the Dutch West Indies : John Greenwood's sea captains carousing in Surinam / Katelyn D. Crawford
  • Dramatic politics : introduction / Bonnie Gordon
  • Mozart and the American Revolution / Pierpaolo Polzonetti
  • The drama of marriage in eighteenth-century Venice : Carlo Goldoni's la Locandiera / Adrienne Ward
  • Performances of suffering and the stagecraft of sympathy / Jennifer Reed
  • The aesthetics of excess : Rococo vestiges of tartuffe in Isla's Father Gerundio / Casey R. Eriksen
  • About Mapscholar / James P. Ambuske and Carol Guarnieri.

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