Exploration discovery and conquest in all its forms were integral parts of the eighteenth
century and of the formation of cultural and national narratives in its course. The plurality
of approaches to what discovery meant in the long eighteenth century makes the term
particularly interesting showing that the century was indeed replete with discoveries in all
areas of research ranging from geographic to medical exploration within the human body and
mind. In September 2019 the seventh Landau Paris Symposium on the Eighteenth Century (LAPASEC)
held in Bamberg Germany brought together a diverse group of scholars from Europe and Canada
to discuss issues of discovery exploration and conquest in the long eighteenth century. The
contributions presented and discussed at the conference are collected in this book which
constitutes volume 7 of the Landau-Paris Studies on the Eighteenth Century. As the contributors
shared their highly different insights into and approaches to the different forms of discovery
undertaken in the long eighteenth century this collection of essays provides an impressive
topical range covering discoveries in literature science music and arts politics and
medicine explorations at home and away the individual genre and even the inner workings of
the human body and mind.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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viiForeword
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ixFRÉDÉRIC OGÉE AND PETER WAGNERIntroduction
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1KERSTIN-ANJA MÜNDERLEINExplorations at Home and AwayI advise you ... to continue an
Englishman: Horace Walpole and China ................... 9PETER SABORWe See theTrident of
Neptune the Eagle of Jupiter the Satyrs of Bacchus:Neo-Classicism and British Ideas of India
................................................................... 29CHRISTOPH HEYLThis
Prospect vast: Astronomy in Eighteenth-Century British Poetics .................... 43FLORIAN
KLAEGERExploring the IndividualThe Underbelly of Enlightenment in Wollstonecraft'sPrivate
Letters to Gilbert Imlay: Exploring Sensibility to the Limits -and the Limits of Sensibility
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63MICHAEL MEYEREliza Haywood: (M)Other of the Eighteenth-Century Literary Marketplace
.............. 79CHANDNI RAMPERSADExploring GenreFrom the Stage to the Home:Libretto-Reading in
Eighteenth-Century France and England ................................... 103PIERRE
DEGOTTParody in William Beckford:Exploring Eighteenth-Century Socio-Political Subversion
....................................... 113KERSTIN-ANJA MÜNDERLEINExplorations WithinThe
Greatest Discovery in Modern Medicine:Smallpox and the Inoculation Controversy in Boston of
1721 .................................. 131MARCEL HARTWIGThe Mental Optician: On Telescopes in
Early Modern Literature and Art ................ 147CHRISTIAN FESERNotes on Contributors
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