Eighteenth-Century Literary History

Essays on eighteenth-century literature from MLQ.

Viewed as a crucible of modernity, the eighteenth century has become a special focus of "Modern Language Quarterly" ("MLQ"), a journal that has led the revival of literary history as a subject for empirical study and theoretical reflection. This book contains essays that represent the best studies of this period published in "MLQ".

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Provocations / Marshall BrownA Novel Nation; or, How to Rethink Modern England as an Emergent Culture / Nancy Armstrong and Leonard TennenhouseNobody's Story: Gender, Property, and the Rise of the Novel / Catherine GallagherReading Shakespeare's Novels: Literary History and Cultural Politics in the Lennox-Johnson Debate / Jonathan Brody KramnickGodwin and the Republican Romance / Jon KlancherFeminine Identity Formation in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre / Jill Anne KowalikMary Robinson and the Myth of Sappho / Jerome McGannReading the Moment and the Moment of Reading in Graffigny's Lettres d'une peruvienne / Thomas M. KavanaghDe-familiarizing the Family; or, Writing Family History from Literary Sources / Ruth PerryThe Anxiety of Change: Reconfiguring Family Relations in Beaumarchais's Trilogy / Christie McDonaldThe Eighteenth-Century Beauty Contest / Michael B. PrinceDescartes's Cogito, Kant's Sublime, and Rembrandt's Philosophers: Cultural Transmission as Occasion for Freedom / Sanford BudickContributorsIndex