Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century

JENNIFER MILAM is the Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic Excellence) at the University of Newcastle in Callaghan, Australia. Her books on rococo art include Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art, Fragonard’s Playful Paintings, and an edited collection Women, Art and the Politics of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe. NICOLA PARSONS is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Sydney in Australia. She is the author of Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Potential Visibility of Ideas in Enlightenment Art and AestheticsJennifer Milam (University of Newcastle) and Nicola Parsons (University of Sydney)Chapter 1: A Good Address: Living at the Louvre in the Eighteenth CenturyDavid Maskill (Victoria University of Wellington)Chapter 2: Inventing Artifice: FranÇois Boucher’s Collection at the LouvreJessica Priebe (University of Sydney)Chapter 3: Continental Porcelain Made in England: The Case of the Chelsea Porcelain FactoryMatthew Martin (University of Melbourne)Chapter 4: Planting Cosmopolitan Ideals: Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar ForestJennifer Milam (University of Newcastle)Chapter 5: Growing Old in Public in Eighteenth-Century France: Marie-ThÉrese Geoffrin and Marie LeszczynskaJessica L. Fripp (Texas Christian University)Chapter 6: French Funeral Monuments of the Ancien RÉgime as Products of Individual Artistic SolutionsWiebke Windorf (University of DÜsseldorf)Chapter 7: Meeting the Locals: Mythical Images of the Indigenous Other in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesMelanie Cooper (University of Adelaide)Chapter 8: Infernal Machines: Designing the Bomb Vessel as Transnational TechnologyJennifer Ferng (University of Sydney)Notes on the ContributorsIndex

"Making Ideas Visible is an important collection that will appeal to scholars from a variety of disciplines. Those teaching early-modern literature and history will find useful representations of ideas that are often less accessible in printed texts. Many of the book’s images will find a home in my instructional materials, and the authors’ insightful interpretations will inform our class discussions. Milam and Parsons should be congratulated for selecting such keen essays, each of which is handsomely produced and carefully documented." - Christopher D. Johnson, Francis Marion University (The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer)