Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

David A. Brewer is an associate professor of English at The Ohio State University. He is the author of The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825, and the coauthor of The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction. Crystal B. Lake is a professor of English language and literatures at Wright State University. She is the author of Artifacts: How We Think and Write about Found Objects.

Past Genesis: Donald J. Greene (1914-97) and the Founding of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1969-1973, by Howard D. Weinbrot Women in the Archives, by Felicity A. Nussbaum Fifty Years of Women at ASECS, by Helen McPherson Futures Introduction, by Logan Connors and Jason Pearl Scholarship from the Periphery: An Israeli Perspective, by Jessica Zimble ASECS Beyond Borders, by Adam Schoene Twenty-First-Century Salon/Salotto Culture for ASECS after 50, by Rebecca Messbarger Closer to Home: Towards a Local Eighteenth Century, by Morgan Vanek Presidential Lecture Ambitions, Modest and Otherwise of Two Parisian Painters: Marianne Loir and Catherine Lusurier, by Melissa Hyde Clifford Lecture Minette's Worlds: Theater and Revolution in Saint-Domingue, by Laurent M. Dubois Consumption and Remediation Consuming Foreign Music, Theater, and Dance Introduction, by Alison DeSimone Opera, War, and the Politics of Effeminacy under Queen Anne, by Amy Dunagin From Royalty to Riots: Responses to French Musical Theater in Early Eighteenth-Century England, by Erica Levenson National Sin, Personal Guilt: Singing Abolitionist 'African' Songs in the Home, by Julia Hamilton Manuscript Notations and Cultural Memory, by Michael Edson Henry Fielding's Theatrical Reminiscences: Another Look at Sophia Western as Jenny Cameron, by Anaclara Castro-Santana Teaching Tough Texts Introduction, by Anne Greenfield Higher Argument / Remaines': Radical Contingency in Paradise Lost, by W. Scott Howard Addressing the Dialect, Distance, and Perceived Dullness of Scottish Restoration Literature: A Case Study, by Holly Faith Nelson For they are not numberless': Teaching the Greatest (and therefore Toughest) Texts, by Clifford Earl Ramsey Eighteenth-Century Bodies Rendered Remarkable: Reading Race and Desire in The Woman of Colour, by Olivia Carpenter The Habit of Habits: Material Culture and the Eighteenth-Century London Masquerade, by Meghan Kobza Disability in the Eighteenth Century Introduction, by Travis Chi Wing Lau and Madeline Sutherland-Meier Sickly and Cross: Heterosexual Plots and Ill-Narratives in Austen's Pride and Prejudice, by Hanna Chaskin Disability as Metaphor and Lived Experience: the Reforming Bodies of Richardson's Pamela and Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall, by Jason S. Farr The Enlightenment's Extraordinary Bodies, by D. Christopher Gabbard Past Joys have more than paid what I endure': Rochester and the Pleasure of Impairment, by Declan Kavanagh