The interdisciplinary essays in this volume represent innovative scholarship on the Enlightenment in Britain, Europe, and North America. Contributors and Contents Richard Barney, The Splenetic Sublime: Anne Finch, Melancholic Physiology, and Post/Modernity Sarah Cohen, Animal Performance in Oudry’s Illustrations to the Fables of La Fontaine JoLynn Edwards, The Conti Sales of 1777 and 1779 and their Impact on the Parisian Art Market Ingrid Tague, Companions, Servants, or Slaves?: Considering Animals in Eighteenth Century Britain Matthieu P. Raillard, Deism, the Sublime and the Formulation of Early Romanticism in Juan Melendez Valdes and Jose Cadalso Romira Worvill, From Prose peinture to Dramatic tableau: Diderot, Fenelon and the Emergence of the Pictorial Aesthetic in France Julie Candler Hayes, Friendship and the Female Moralist Teresa Michals, Like a Spoiled Actress off the Stage : Anti-Theatricality, Nature, and the Novel Adam Beach, Behn’s Oroonoko, the Gold Coast, and Slavery in the Early-Modern Atlantic World Eric Gidal, A gross and barbarous composition : Melancholy, National Character, and the Critical Reception of Hamlet in the Eighteenth Century Character Nicole von Germeten, Prostitution and the Captain’s Wife: A Public and Notorious Scandal in Eighteenth-Century Cartagena de Indias Margaret Boyle, Chronicling Women’s Containment in Bartolome Arzans de Orsua y Vela’s History of Potsi