Engaging the Ottoman empire: vexed mediations, 1690-1815

Theatrum pacis : mediating the treaty of Karlowitz

A costume empire : describing the social matrix

At the limits of verisimilitude : Vanmour's allegories of social cohesion

Critical alignments : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's classical counter-memory

"As are yet to be seen" : the Dilettanti's re-enchantment of the Ionian world

Exoriare aliquis : Choiseul-Gouffier's needs and Lady Craven's desires

Narrative fragments and object choices : antiquities, war and the vestiges of love

Critical disjunctions : the intersection of form, affect, and empire in Melling and Byron.