Focusing on the visual arts and written texts, this book explores the nature of femininity and masculinity in 18th-century Britain and France. The activities an

This study joins the resurgent scholarship presently redressing the neglect of eighteenth-century visual culture since the beginning of the twentieth century. T

Art history has enriched the study of material culture as a scholarly field. This interdisciplinary volume enhances this literature through the contributors' en

A new collection of essays which challenges many existing assumptions, particularly the conventional models of separate spheres and economic change. All the ess

A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European art, and the