Literature and the Arts

Literature and the Arts

Interdisciplinary Essays in Memory of James Anderson Winn

EDITED BY ANNA BATTIGELLI

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.

226 pp 6 color and 28 b/w images

6.125 x 9.25

978-1-64453-311-6 paper $39.95S

978-1-64453-312-3 cloth $120.00SU

October 2023

Literary Studies • Performing Arts

ANNA BATTIGELLI is a professor of English at SUNY Plattsburgh. She is the editor of Art and Artifact in Austen (University of Delaware Press, 2020) and the author of Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind (1998). Together with Laura Stevens, she edited a special topics issue of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature on Eighteenth-Century English Women and Catholicism (2012).