Project MUSE - Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture-Volume 17, 1988

Preface

The Editors

p. xi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0000

Edmond Halley: His Life and Scientific Achievements

Norman J. W. Thrower

pp. 3-15

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0002

"Wicked Whiston" and the Scriblerians: Another Ancients-Modern Controversy

G. S. Rousseau

pp. 17-44

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0003

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Authorized Prophets: Comets and Astronomers after 1759

Simon Schaffer

pp. 45-74

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0004

Medicine as a Key to Defining Enlightenment Issues: The Case of Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Kathleen Wellman

pp. 75-89

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0005

From Curiosité to Utilité: The Automaton in Eighteenth-Century France

Reed Benhamou

pp. 91-105

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0006

"A Visible History of Art": The Forms and Preoccupations of the Early Museum

Paul Holdengräber

pp. 107-117

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0007

Chinese Export Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century Tidewater Virginia

Julia B. Curtis

pp. 119-144

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0008

Anglo-Irish Attitudes: Changing Perceptions of National Identity Among the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland, ca. 1690–1750

David Hayton

pp. 145-157

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0009

From "the French and Dutch are more sober, frugal and industrious" to the "nobler" position: Attitudes of the Prince of Wales toward a General Naturalization and a Popular Monarchy, 1757–1760

John L. Bullion

pp. 159-172

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0010

Blackstone's Commentaries as Constitutive Rhetoric

Jeffrey Smitten

pp. 173-189

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0011

Women, Publishers, and Money, 1790–1820

Jan Fergus, Janice Farrar Thaddeus

pp. 191-207

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The Ideological Implications of Onomatopoeia in the Eighteenth Century

Roy Harris

pp. 209-216

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0013

Hazlitt, the Novel, and the French Revolution

Robert W. Uphaus

pp. 217-227

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0014

Cowper, Hayley, and Samuel Johnson's "Republican" Milton: For Louis A. Landa

James King

pp. 229-238

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0015

Following the Stage-Itinerant: Perception, Doubt, and Death in Swift's Tale of a Tub

Veronica Kelly

pp. 239-258

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Mourning as Reception in Rousseau's Julie

Patrick Coleman

pp. 259-270

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0017

Redressing Passion: Sophie d'Houdetot and the Origins of Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse

Susan Klem Jackson

pp. 271-287

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0018

The Meeting Place of Autobiography and Censorship: Rousseau's Lettres à Malesherbes

E. S. Burt

pp. 289-308

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0019

Rousseau and the Democratization of Language in the French Revolution

Carol Blum

pp. 309-317

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0020

Jefferson's Music Library, His Catalogue of 1783, and A Revision of Lowens's Haydn in America

Ronald R. Kidd

pp. 319-334

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0021

The Enlightenment: What and Who?

Lester G. Crocker

pp. 335-347

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0022

Contributors

pp. 349-350

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0023

Index

pp. 359-371

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1988.0001

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