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    Literature and the Arts
    Interdisciplinary Essays in Memory of James Anderson Winn

    Anna Battigelli (Edited by), Anna Battigelli (Contributions by), Steven N Zwicker (Contributions by), Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Contributions by), Paul Hammond (Contributions by), Andrew Walkling (Contributions by), David Hopkins (Contributions by), Cedric D Reverand (Contributions by), Paula R. Backscheider (Contributions by), Ellen T Harris (Contributions by), Peter Sabor (Contributions by), Melissa A Schoenberger (Contributions by)

    9781644533116

    Paperback / softback, published 13 October 2023

    244 pages, 6 color and 28 B-W illustrations
    23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.34 kg

    "Winn's work amply demonstrates the idea of conversation that interdisciplinarity takes as its starting point, as do the fine essays contained in this volume." (Eighteenth-Century Fiction)

    The ten essays in Literature and the Arts explore the intermedial plenitude of eighteenth-century English culture, honoring the memory of James Anderson Winn, whose work demonstrated how seeing that interplay of the arts and literature was essential to a full understanding of Restoration and eighteenth-century English culture. Scenery, machinery, music, dance, and texts transformed one another, both enriching and complicating generic distinctions. Artists were alive to the power of the arts to reflect and shape reality, and their audience was quick to turn to the arts as performative pleasures and critical lenses through which to understand a changing world. This collection's eminent authors discuss estate design, musicalized theater, the visual spectacle of musical performance, stage machinery and set designs, the social uses of painting and singing, drama’s reflection of a transformed military infrastructure, and the arts of memory and of laughter.

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction 
    ANNA BATTIGELLI

    1 Laughter from on High: The Arts of Contempt in
    Restoration England
    STEVEN N. ZWICKER

    2 Staging Davenant; or, Macbeth, the Musical
    AMANDA EUBANKS WINKLER

    3 The Arts of Memory in Absalom and Achitophel:
    Dryden’s Response to Milton and Marvell
    PAUL HAMMOND

    4 Peacocks and Rainbows: Visual Spectacle and
    Allegorical Performance in Albion and Albanius
    ANDREW R. WALKLING

    5 “The Dyrham Decades”: The Cultural Connections 
    of an English Country House, 1690–1720
    DAVID HOPKINS

    6 Domenico Scarlatti: “Jesting with Art”
    CEDRIC D. REVERAND II

    7 Queen Anne’s Other Women
    PAULA R. BACKSCHEIDER

    8 Anne Donnellan: Friend of the Arts
    ELLEN T. HARRIS

    9 Responding to Emma in 1816: Reviewers, Readers,and “Opinions”
    PETER SABOR

    10 Elizabeth Rivers and Christopher Smart:
    Eighteenth-Century Poetry across Time and Form
    MELISSA SCHOENBERGER

    Selected Bibliography 
    Notes on Contributors
    Index

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