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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 183–216.
Published: 01 January 2024
... Peters archive studies manuscript circulation print and periodical culture textual recovery Just over two months after Phillis Wheatley Peters's death on 5 December 1784, her husband, John Peters, advertised in the Independent Chronicle and Universal Advertiser for the immediate return...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 41–60.
Published: 01 September 2019
... and archival evidence about sexual relations between noblemen and workingmen in eighteenth-century Paris. Nobles who sought and had sex with men, more often in private than in public spaces, have not been studied as a group. As this case study demonstrates, their rank both sheltered then from arrest...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 134–165.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the poem and other visual paratext. In addition to providing a detailed study of the editions, including their marketing and pricing, it focuses on interpretive shifts in the illustrations—from exclusively ship- and shipwreck-related iconography, to the expression of human concerns, especially in terms...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2024
... books” have tended, because of their malleability and idiosyncrasy, to languish in scattered archives in the company of household papers and manuscript separates, resistant to categories applied to the printed book. 2 The following essays, each based on archival study of one or more...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 120–124.
Published: 01 January 2009
... “The
Rani of Burdwan as Historical Subject,” is a compelling example of archival
study and speculative theoretical reconstruction, in which Joseph focuses on
a colonized woman who, while secluded from public interaction, managed to
make her seclusion the basis of her petition to the company defending...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 72–91.
Published: 01 January 2024
... a function of being alive. At the same time that they stored information, commonplace books were truly archival forms, for they were created over a long, undefined period, with entries made according to the provocations of a particular moment in the life of a person or an institution. Archival studies...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 236–261.
Published: 01 January 2024
... she advises: as a tool whose value becomes apparent through contextualization in the linguistic and historical complexity of the source text. When combined with close reading, topic modeling can offer an additional analytical tool to study archival materials. As we examined the results of each...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 89–103.
Published: 01 September 2011
... for by groups
of parents” (107), or through the transmission within families of the requisite
skills. Homemade copybooks in which learners copied and recopied characters,
words, and sentences to practice their writing were preserved in many of the
family archives that Whyman studied — no doubt because...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2018
... archival material scat-
tered throughout repositories around the world, which have been collected
together in facsimile form at the Burney Centre (McGill University, Mon-
treal). Frances Burney’s own life and writings have generated biographies
and critical editions, and the Burney Centre has labored...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 77–82.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., and that the claims of the importance of eighteenth-century studies, and archives, for understanding the novel form are proliferating. The 2022 annual meeting of ASECS included a panel on the idea of an eighteenth-century realism, in which the participants asked whether the idea of realism remains useful...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 55–58.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and mistrust to grudging acceptance.
Throughout this study, the reader harvests the fruits of diligent, detailed work
in the archival record of eighteenth-century controversial pamphlets, sermons,
and other under-analyzed print genres. Nor is Weinbrot a desk jockey encoun-
tering the Sacheverell...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 3–19.
Published: 01 September 2017
... be the only model offered
to this and future generations.
Part of my unease with the models I initially had available for writing
literary history came from my early experiences in reading it. Both my aca-
demic degrees were joint degrees in history and English studies, and my
training...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 80–82.
Published: 01 September 2015
... the late Enlightenment as histo-
rians have recently studied the Revolution—from below.” He added, “Digging
downward in intellectual history calls for new methods and new materials, for
grubbing in archives instead of contemplating philosophical treatises.”1
Caradonna has certainly done his time...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 32–47.
Published: 01 April 2006
..., and philosophes debated the legitimacy of
suicide, real people who knew nothing about their debates really killed
themselves in eighteenth-century France.1 Few historians of that time and
place have investigated suicide by doing the sort of systematic research
in the archives that yields information about...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 147–152.
Published: 01 January 2025
... may serve as tools to resist and redress archival bias. In “Anecdote and the Regional Actress: A History of the Farren Family in Several Anecdotes,” Fiona Ritchie examines the persistent slant of theater history and archives toward the London playhouses and identifies anecdote as “one of the few...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 262–267.
Published: 01 January 2024
... and writers. The most notable differences between the foundational studies of print culture in book history and the contents of this collection are the type of questions we now bring to manuscript volumes. Most striking to those of us whose early training in archival research was to seek out lost literary...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 85–105.
Published: 01 April 2000
... eld-
erly women, effectively limited their access to gin and the places where it
was served, while discouraging them from hawking it without a license.
In answer to the question posed at the beginning of this study, tradi-
tional barriers between the sexes survived only in part in the brave new...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 101–108.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Enlightenment. He never was a political historian,
as he himself says. However, he always was a cultural historian and an insti-
tutional historian with an increasingly prosopographical approach. From the
Philosophical Society of Edinburgh he progressed to studies of the physical
and medical sciences...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 64–99.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Lance Bertelsen Unpublished letters in the Burke archive (Sheffield and Northampton) reveal that when Captain James Cook’s Resolution departed Plymouth in July 1776, Lieutenant James King harbored strong pro-American sympathies and that these sympathies were possibly shared by his fellow messmates...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 101–114.
Published: 01 September 2019
... years he spent as poet laureate, diligently churning out drivel, did nothing to improve later critical views of him. Prior to McGirr s study, only four books of the slightest value have ever been published on Cibber. These are F. Dorothy Senior s The Life and Times of Colley Cibber (1928), Rich- ard...
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