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Music's first consumers : publishers in the late eighteenth century / Emily H. Green -- Inside a Viennese Kunsthandlung : Artaria in 1784 / Rupert Ridgewell -- Morality and the "fair-sexing" of Telemann's faithful music master / Steven Zohn -- Eighteenth-century mediations of music theory : meter, tempo, and affect in print / Roger Mathew Grant -- Musical style as commercial strategy in Romantic chamber music / Marie Sumner Lott -- In Vienna "only waltzes get printed" : the decline and transformation of the Contredanse Hongroise in the early nineteenth century / Catherine Mayes -- The power to please : gender and celebrity self-commodification in the early American republic / Glenda Goodman -- Exchanging ideas in a changing world : Adolph Bernhard Marz and the Berliner allgemeine musikalische Zeitung in 1824 / Patrick Wood Uribe -- Parisian opera between commons and commodity, ca. 1830 / Peter Mondelli

Romantic bluestockings: from muses to matrons / Anne Mellor -- 'To dazzle let the vain design': Alexander Pope's portrait gallery; or, the Impossibility of brilliant women / Emma Clery -- Virtue, patriotism and female scholarship in bluestocking portraiture / Clare Barlow -- Anne Seymour Damer: a sculptor of 'Republican perfection' / Alison Yarrington -- The blues gone grey: portraits of bluestocking women in old age / Devoney Looser -- Sacred love: Eliza Linley's voice / Joseph Roach -- The learned female soprano / Susan Staves -- Roles and role models: Montagu, Siddons, Lady Macbeth / Shearer West -- Hester Thrale: 'what trace of the wit' / Felicity A. Nussbaum -- Reading practices in Elizabeth Montagu's epistolary network of the 1750s / Markman Ellis -- The queen of the blues, the Bluestocking Queen, and bluestocking masculinity / Clarissa Campbell-Orr -- Luck be a lady: patronage and professionalism for women writers in the 1790s / Harriet Guest

The sexual terrain of colonial and revolutionary Philadelphia -- A springboard to revolution : runaway wives and self-divorce -- The fruits of nonmarital unions : sex in the urban pleasure culture -- The pleasures and powers of reading : eroticization of popular print and discursive interpretations of sex -- Sex in the city in the age of democratic revolutions -- To be "free and independent" : sex among the revolutionary rabble -- Sex and the politics of gender in the age of revolution -- Normalizing sex in the nineteenth century : the assault on nonmarital sexuality -- Through our bodies : prostitution and the cultural reconstruction of nonmarital sexuality -- Through our souls : the benevolent reform of sexual transgressors -- Through our children : bastardy comes under attack

Front Matter -- Copyright -- -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Abbreviations and Terminology -- Entering Canton and Macao -- The Who's Who of Canton and Macao -- Colin Campbell and the 1730s -- A Space for Intersections -- Michael Grubb and the 1750s and 1760s -- The Communication Struggle -- Olof Lindahl and the 1770s and 1780s -- Spending Time and Spending Money -- Anders Ljungstedt and the Early Nineteenth Century -- Finding and Becoming Trustworthy Men -- This House Is Not a Home.

"In Breaking The Bonds, Merril Smith establishes the ambitious goal of determining 'what kind of problems arose in troubled marriages' and of analyzing 'how men and women coped with marital discord.' . . . To accomplish this, Smith studied hundreds of divorce petitions, other legal documents, newspapers, almshouse dockets, and prescriptive literature. She concludes that, as in the present day, married couples fought and parted over sex, money, and abuse."-Pennsylvania History "A richly textured study. . . With an eye to cross-class and cross-race representation, Smith utilizes diverse sources, including memoirs and diaries, correspondence, probate records, newspaper advertisements, depositions and petitions for divorce, and various moral reform and social regulatory organization records. . . . A brave attempt to write a description of 'the development of the Puritan concept of spirtiual growth.' . . . Gracefully written. . . provides specific new insights into a too-neglected area of early republican domestic politics."-William and Mary Quarterly The late eighteenth century marked a period of changing expectations about marriage: companionship came to coexist as a norm alongside older patriarchal standards, men and women began to see their roles in more disparate ways, expectations about the satisfaction of marriage grew, and gender distinctions between husbands and wives became more complicated. Marital strife was an inevitable outcome of these changing expectations. The difficulties that rose, including abuse, a lack of sexual communication, and domestic violence (frequently brought on by alcholism) differ little from those with which couples struggle today. Breaking The Bonds is an imaginative and original account that brings to light a strongly communicative world in which neighbors knew of, dinscussed, and even came to the aid of those locked in unhappy marriages

Wie zwischen 1730 und 1830 über das weibliche Begehren diskutiert wurde zeigen die Autorinnen anhand von Lexikoneintragungen (Stichworte "Geilheit", "Wollust" und Liebe") aus verschiedenen Jahrzehnten. Die gewonnenen Informationen werden ergänzt durch Stiche in populären Zeitschriften für Frauen, die um die Themen Liebe/ Begehren kreisen. Werden 1732 der Geilheit noch siebeneinhalb Spalten gewidmet und das Phänomen explizit auf Frauen bezogen, so verschwindet der Begriff bis 1827. Im Laufe des 18. Jahrhunderts wird die weibliche Lust zunehmend tabuisiert, die Frau wird zum Objekt männlicher Wollust, die Beschreibungen werden zunehmend moralisch und anonymisiert. Die sexuelle Diskussion dient also der eigenen gesellschaftlichen Standortbestimmung, der Schaffung eines Klassenkörpers. Die bürgerliche Frau ist Spiegel des Kampfes, sie wird zur Repräsentantin der Liebe entsinnlicht. Aus Begehren wird Sehnsucht, ihr Begehren wird geopfert. Die Kupferstiche in den Almanachen zeigen nur bedingt die Distanzierung vom Körperlichen. Es kommen gleichzeitig Liebe und Begehren zur Abbildung sowie die darin angelegten Widersprüche; Zweideutigkeiten und Komik verweisen auf Brüche in der Entwicklung zur zweiten Natur. (IF)