Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture

<p>The essays in this volume share a common concern with investigating Enlightenment categories of historical understanding and determining how these categories helped shape Enlightenment culture. The contributors address the question of how eighteenth-century writers make sense of the past—how they interpret it, give it meaning and form, and deploy it for their own practical, aesthetic, and ideological purposes.</p><p>Contributors and contents:</p><p><b>Frank Palmeri</b>, Conjectural History and the Origins of Sociology</p><p><b>Stuart Peterfreund,</b> From the Forbidden to the Familiar: The Way of Natural Theology Leading up to and beyond the Long Eighteenth Century</p><p><b>Tony C. Brown,</b> The Barrows of History</p><p><b>Shane Agin,</b> Sex Education in the Enlightened Nation</p><p><b>Suzanne R. Pucci,</b> Snapshots of Family Intimacy in the French Eighteenth Century: The Case of <i>Paul et Virginie</i></p><p><b>Ana Hontanilla,</b> Images of Barbaric Spain in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing</p><p><b>Mark R. Malin,</b> The Good, the Bad, and the Sentimental Savage: Native Americans in Representative Novels from the Spanish Enlightenment</p><p><b>Simon During,</b> Church, State, and Modernization: English Literature as Gentlemanly Knowledge after 1688</p><p><b>Julia Rudolph,</b> "That Blunderbuss of Law”: Giles Jacob, Abridgement, and Print Culture</p><p><b>Anne H. Stevens,</b> Forging Literary History: Historical Fiction and Literary Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain</p><p><b>Jennifer Thorn,</b> “All beautiful in woe”: Gender, Nation, and Phillis Wheatley''s <i>Niobe</i></p><p><b>Hilary Englert,</b> "This Rhapsodical Work”: Object-Narrators and the Figure of Sterne</p>