Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

Johns Hopkins University Press

Studies in Eighteenth-Century CultureAuthor(s): George Boulukos\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States\nImprint: Johns Hopkins University Press\nISBN-13: 9781421451756, 978-1421451756\nSynopsis\nThe latest groundbreaking work in eighteenth-century studies.\n\nThe essays in Volume 54 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture demonstrate a renewed interest in the variety of ways in which emotions interact with artistic, cultural, literary, and scholarly conventions.\n\nThe volume opens with three essays that linger on the affective experiences both occluded and afforded by genre. Chloe Summers Edmondson traces the posthumous reception of Madame de Svign's letters and finds that they established a style of \""seeming sincerity.\"" Robert Stearn follows by uncovering the relationships between household labor and emotional experiences in the diary of the Manchester wigmaker Edmund Harrold. And Joani Etskovitz examines how the slow narrative style of Charle