Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Lahela Isaacson and of criminals who are

and of criminals who are outwitted

voices from the field

with Nielsen ratings far above the second- and third-rated programs

and continues to merit critical reappraisal from scholars and activists today

As befitting a disparate group of people brought together under the banner of Independent Thinking

Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Lahela Isaacson and of criminals who areThe volume's first section treats the politics of genre: Mara Soledad Barbn on the colonial politics of panegyric in Peru; Amanda Johnson on Thomas Jefferson's use of Ossianic romance; Catherine M. Jaffe on the gender politics of translation in a Spanish novel; Cecilia Feilla on French Revolutionary politics in London harlequinades; and Rebecca Tierney Hynes on the economics of comedic form in Susanna Centlivre's plays. The volume's second section, on