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The Prospectus War of the 1790s: Literary Advertising in an Age of Revolution
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 43–77.
Published: 01 April 2020
...David Duff Prospectuses, a type of printed advertisement widely used in the eighteenth-century book trade, played a vital but previously unexamined role in the French Revolution controversy, attracting subscribers to political publications and encapsulating their message. Focusing on journal...
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figures 6a and 6b. Advertisement on p. 462 (left). “To Mr. and Mrs. ******* on the Death of their Infant Son. By Phillis Wheatley,” p. 488 (right), The Boston Magazine (September 1784), Houghton, P 132.1*. Courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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Advertisement on p. 462 (left). “To Mr. and Mrs. ******* on the Death of th...
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figures 6a and 6b. Advertisement on p. 462 (left). “To Mr. and Mrs. ******* on the Death of their Infant Son. By Phillis Wheatley,” p. 488 (right), The Boston Magazine (September 1784), Houghton, P 132.1*. Courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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“A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 183–216.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Figures 6a and 6b. Advertisement on p. 462 (left). “To Mr. and Mrs. ******* on the Death of their Infant Son. By Phillis Wheatley,” p. 488 (right), The Boston Magazine (September 1784), Houghton, P 132.1*. Courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. ...
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Transcendent Ephemera: Performing Deep Structure in Elegies, Ballads, and Other Occasional Forms
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 17–42.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Dianne Dugaw This essay considers our response to printed ephemera, analyzing British examples of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, specifically elegies, broadside ballads, and the life story and advertised theatrical performing of the eighteenth-century female soldier Hannah Snell, using...
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Illustrated Pocket Diaries and the Commodification of Culture
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 53–84.
Published: 01 April 2013
... advertisements have remained entirely untraced. Yet an attempt at charting this genre’s various contexts of production, marketing, and consumption is rewarding in that it will reveal the richness of these publications in terms of design and layout innovations, the ways in which each of these titles promoted...
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Curating Will & Jane
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 1–35.
Published: 01 April 2016
... their deaths, and the Will & Jane exhibition tells the story of that process through the display of many and various objects—from porcelain figurines and portraits, to advertisements and bobbleheads—that are part of the marketing and cultural dissemination of literary fame. The authors of the article also...
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Britain's Appetite for Empire
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 141–146.
Published: 01 January 2025
... of enslaved African field laborers created a hierarchy between English planters and the people they forced to toil for them. He also notes depictions of native people representing Virginia tobacco and a “stereotypical ‘Chinaman’ ” (110) on many trade cards advertising tea. More work could be done...
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Attribution and Repetition: The Case of Defoe and the Circulating Library
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 36–59.
Published: 01 April 2012
... about
one play in twelve was advertised with its author’s name attached.” 9 That
is, expectations about the literary forms themselves may have dictated the
absence or presence of the author’s name, independent of authorial moti-
vation or intervention. It was against this context of widespread...
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Male Oratory and Female Prate: “Then Hush and Be an Angel Quite”
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (1): 23–49.
Published: 01 January 2005
... at home.”
Therefore sooner than take such a one for my wife,
I will e’en remain single the rest of my life.
“Epigram on a Scolding Wife. By the late James Duffi eld, Esq published
in the General Advertiser for 9 January 1782, ran:
Mills! Thunder! Hammers! your noise now lay aside...
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Cheese, Stolen Paper, and the London Book Trade, 1750-99
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 100–110.
Published: 01 September 2014
... Lacking-
ton implies as much in an advertisement he placed in the World newspaper
on Wednesday 24 February 1790: “Lost out of a room over J. Lackington’s
coach house,” his advertisement stated, “five hundred Watt’s Psalms and
five hundred Watt’s Hymns . . . unbound,” and he concluded...
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Reevaluating Colley Cibber and Some Problems in Documentation of Performance, 1690–1800
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 101–114.
Published: 01 September 2019
... of His Country was advertised for three nights at Drury Lane in November 1719, and Dennis himself reports approximate receipts for those nights in his angry dedication of the published text. It cannot have closed after one night. (9) McGirr states that Theophilus Cibber was routinely hissed off stage...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., 120). As separately issued advertisements, publishing proposals, and prospectuses that are not physically part of the book they prefigure and announce, they nevertheless project a version of the publication they anticipate. Their difference from the printed and bound book consists...
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Richmond’s Rhetoric and Chatham’s Collapse: A Media History
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 1–30.
Published: 01 September 2012
... Advertiser,
printed and edited by Henry Sampson Woodfall, offered an account that
closely parallels Walker King’s. In it, Chatham expresses “his Indignation
at the pusillanimous idea of giving up the Dependence of America” and a
few lines later asks, “Shall Englishmen suffer it with dastardly...
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Colonial Sexual Cultures
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 144–147.
Published: 01 January 2009
... extensive footnotes (sometimes longer
than the text on the page above them) reveal the current state of knowledge
about eighteenth-century sexuality. Deftly employing a wide range of sources,
from newspaper reports and advertisements, through divorce records, bastardy
records, and diaries...
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Equivocations of Gender and Rank: Eighteenth-Century Sporting Women
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 70–94.
Published: 01 January 2002
... privileged women not only did not need physical
strength but sometimes positively eschewed it. By their weakness and lan-
guor women advertised the gentility of their household and the resources
of the husbands who could afford substitute labor. Clothes and a country...
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Censorship, Reissues, and the Popularity of Political Miscellanies
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 96–115.
Published: 01 January 2017
..., was responsible
for distributing the Foundling Hospital. The second volume is advertised in
the Daily Post for 13 March 1744, and is said to be published on that day for
“W. Lyon.” The proximity to the end of the 1743 legal year (21 March 1744)
means that this is probably an advertisement for the modified...
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Queen Charlotte’s 1789 Account Book
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 86–100.
Published: 01 September 2019
.... Probably Sarah Rush, who advertised in 1780 that she had worked for P. Wright in London, milliner to Her Majesty. See Salisbury and Winchester Journal (27 November 1780): 2. On 1 January 1803, the partnership of Sarah Rush and her sisters Jane Rush and Elizabeth Manley Rush, milliners and fancy dress...
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Irish Catholics and Their Networks in Eighteenth-Century London
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 66–102.
Published: 01 January 2015
... convenient house in Trinity Lane,
fit for a merchant, late in the possession of Mr Daniel Arthur, merchant”
was advertised to let in 1722, and Daniel, “lately failed,” appears simply as
a lodger in 1723.72
The Arthurs were connected by marriage to the Fitzgeralds, a gen-
try family that enjoyed...
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The Visual Anatomy of Falconer's The Shipwreck , 1762–1818
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 134–165.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Library” in April 1795. 14 In the event, Cooke's edition was not published until 1798, the plate dated 13 February 1798. It featured, as an advertisement informed potential purchasers, a “superb” frontispiece by Richard Corbould, representing the parting of Palemon from Anna, the latter apprehensive...
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