Published: 2013-07-02

Front Matter

From the Editor

Rebecca L. Spang

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Kenshur Prize for Best Book in Eighteenth-Century Studies

Introductory Comments

Rebecca L. Spang

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Joanna Stalnaker’s The Unfinished Enlightenment

Lynn Festa

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In Praise of History’s Losers: A Redemptive Reading of the Obsolete Enlightenment

Trish Loughran

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Bloomington Workshop (annual spring conference)

Call for Papers

The Center

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Conference Program

The Center

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About the Participants

The Center

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Working on Playing (introduction)

Rebecca L. Spang

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“We invented a new game”: British Children’s Responses to the French Revolution (abstract)

Kathryn Gleadle

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In the Face of Difference: Molineux, Cribb, and the Violence of the Fancy (abstract)

Daniel O'Quinn

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The Follies of War (comment)

Lara Kriegel

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Discussion (transcript)

Workshop Participants

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On Huizinga and Schiller: The Play Drive in Politics and Life (comment)

Michel Chaouli

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Discussion (transcript)

Workshop Participants

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Letter Paintings and the Culture of Confiance in Eighteenth-Century France (abstract)

Nina L. Dubin

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“Une fois piquée au jeu…”: The Motif of Game and the Function of Chance in Laclos’ Les Liaisons dangereuses (abstract)

Anne Beate Maurseth

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“That Cursed Itch of Play”: Finance and Gambling in Henry Fielding (abstract)

Dwight Codr

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Capturing the Queen: Jane Austen’s Pedagogy of Playful Reading (abstract)

Miranda Yaggi

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Discussion (transcript)

Workshop Participants

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“This house resolves that gambling is a fundamentally rational activity” (transcript)

Richard Nash, Jesse Molesworth

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Eighteenth-Century Play and Games in the Collections of the Lilly Library

Erika Dowell, Jillian Hinchliffe

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Eighteenth-Century Theatrical War Plays and the Experience of War (abstract)

Cornelis Van der Haven

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Mirrors, Thresholds, Fun: Reflections on Play, War, and Historicity (abstract)

Jonathan Elmer

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Play in War, War in Play (comment)

Hall Bjornstad

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