Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

Downing A. Thomas is a professor of French at the University of Iowa, where he is also associate provost and dean of International Programs. He is the author or coeditor of several books, including Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Regime: 1647-1785, Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries in Musical Drama, and Music and the Origins of Language: Theories from the French Enlightenment. Lisa F. Cody is an associate dean of the faculty and an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College. She is the author of Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons.

• 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 Fete Champetre; 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-Sebastien Mercier: Prophet, Abolitionist, Colonialist.