This volume spotlights the visual arts, vision, and blindness during the Enlightenment in France, Britain, and Germany. The essays range from exploring the musical and cultural impact of an eighteenth-century virtuoso violinist to analyzing lotteries as romance in eighteenth-century England.
Contributors and Contents:
Mary Sheriff, The King, the Trickster and the Gorgon: On the Illusions of Rococo Art
Beverly Wilcox, The Hissing of Monsieur Pagin
Jessica Richard, Lotteries and the Romance of Chance in Eighteenth-Century England
Emrys D. Jones, 'Friendship like mine / Throws all Respects behind it': Male Companionship and the Cult of Frederick, Prince of Wales
David Hagan, Threading the Needle: Problems in Reading Dennis Diderot's La lettre sur les aveugles
Josephine Touma, From the Playhouse to the Page: Some Visual Sources for Watteau's Theatrical Universe
Daniel O'Quinn, Diversionary Tactics and Coercive Acts: John Burgoyne's F te Champ tre
Shelley King, Portrait of a Marriage: John and Amelia Opie and the Sister Arts
David Fairer, Where Fuming Trees Refresh the Thirsty Air
Dorothea Von Mucke, Iconic Turn and the Power of Images: Goethe's Elective Affinities
Laure Marcellesi, Louis-S bastien Mercier: Prophet, Abolitionist, Colonialist