Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

The interdisciplinary essays in this volume represent innovative scholarship on the Enlightenment in Britain, Europe, and North America. Contributors and contents: Dennis Moore, Colloquy with the Author: Vincent Carretta and Equiano, the African Toni Bowers, Behn's Monmouth: Sedition, Seduction, and Tory Ideology in the 1680s Tita Chico, Details and Frankness: Affective Relations in Sir Charles Gradison Rebecca M. Mills, 'To be both Patroness and Friend': Patronage, Friendship, and Protofeminism in the Life of Elizabeth Thomas (1675-1731) Catherine M. Jaffe, Noticia de la vida y obras del Conde de Rumford (1802) by Maria Lorenza de los Rios, Marquesa de Fuerte-Hijar: Authorizing a Space for Female Charity Laura Mandell, Prayer, Feeling, Action: Anna Barbauld and the Public Worship Controversy Chloe Wigston Smith, Dressing the British: Clothes, Customs, and Nation in W. H. Pyne's The Costume of Great Britain Heidi E. Kraus, David's Roman Vedute Elizabeth Claire, Monstrous Choreographies: Waltzing, Madness, and Miscarriage Douglas S. Harvey, Strolling Players in Albany, Montreal, and Quebec City, 1797 and 1810: Performance, Class, and Empire Woodruff D.Smith, Corruption and Eighteenth-Century Social Science: Mapping the Space of Political Economy