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 ContentsRichard Barney, The Splenetic Sublime: Anne Finch, Melancholic Physiology, and Post/ModernitySarah Cohen, Animal Performance in Oudry's Illustrations to the Fables of La FontaineJoLynn Edwards, The Conti Sales of 1777 and 1779 and their Impact on the Parisian Art MarketIngrid Tague, Companions, Servants, or Slaves?: Considering Animals in Eighteenth Century BritainMatthieu P. Raillard, Deism, the Sublime and the Formulation of Early Romanticism in Juan Mel+®ndez Vald+®s and Jos+® CadalsoRomira Worvill, From Prose peinture to Dramatic tableau: Diderot, F+®nelon and the Emergence of the Pictorial Aesthetic in FranceJulie Candler Hayes, Friendship and the Female MoralistTeresa Michals, "Like a Spoiled Actress off the Stage": Anti-Theatricality, Nature, and the NovelAdam Beach, Behn's Oroonoko, the Gold Coast, and Slavery in the Early-Modern Atlantic WorldEric Gidal, "A gross and barbarous composition": Melancholy, National Character, and the Critical Reception of Hamlet in the Eighteenth Century CharacterNicole von Germeten, Prostitution and the Captain's Wife: A Public and Notorious Scandal in Eighteenth-Century Cartagena de IndiasMargaret Boyle, Chronicling Women's Containment in Bartolom+® Arzans de Orsúa y Vela's History of Potsi