Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

Addressing the diverse ways in which eighteenth-century contemporaries of different nations and cultures created visual, verbal, and material representations in various media. Focused on conventions of technology, labor, and tolerance on the one hand, and on artistic intentionality on the other hand, these essays also address the implications of this past in our own research today. The first section, Representing Humans and Technology, opens with the late Srinivas Aravamudans presidential address, From Enlightenment to Anthropocene. This is followed by a panel of essays on labor and industry, which includes Valentina Tikoff on the overlap between welfare and the technical training of Spanish orphans for warfare; Susan Egenolf on mythological representations of industry; Susan Libby on the Encyclopdies mechanical representations of sugar production on the plantations; and Jon Klancher on technological manuals. The second section, Inside the Artists Studio, opens with Shearer Wests ASECS/BSECS lecture on selfiehood and eighteenth-century celebrity. This is followed by papers on self-promoting self-representationsby painters in Wendy Wassyng Roworths essay on Angelica Kauffmans studio in Rome and Francesca Boves essay on George Morlands studio; and by a self-promoting French society lady in Heather McPhersons essay on Madame Rcamiers portraits. This section concludes with Leith Daviss essay on representations in the contemporary press of Ireland and the Glorious Revolution. The final section addresses emerging issues in two forums. The first reconsiders issues of intentionality: participants include Stephanie Insley Hershinow, Sarah Ellenzweig, Edmund J. Goehring, Thomas Salem Manganaro, and Kathleen Lubey. The second section reconsiders issues of toleranceand the association of Enlightenment tolerance with Voltaire during the recent Charlie Hebdo rallies in Paris. Participants include Jeffrey M. Leichman, Reginald McGinnis, Jack Iverson, Fayal Falaky, Ourida Mostefai, and Elena Russo.