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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 85–87.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Review Essay
A Black Missionary in the Center of the Slave Trade:
The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque
Edward E. Andrews
Providence College
Philip Quaque. The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 150–153.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Vincent Carretta Costello Ray . Black Salt: Seafarers of African Descent on British Ships . ( Liverpool , Liverpool Univ. , 2012 ). Pp. xxiv + 248. 15 ills. $99.95 Gilbert Alan . Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 92–98.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Roxann Wheeler Curran Andrew S. . The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. , 2011 ). Pp. xiv + 310. 29 ills. $75 Gikandi Simon . Slavery and the Culture of Taste . ( Princeton : Princeton Univ. , 2011...
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in The Battlefield as Enlightened Space: War, the Senses, and the Emotional Soldier, ca. 1790–1840
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 4. George Jones (1786–1869), A Highlander, Black Watch attending a General of Hussars, possible Lord Uxbridge: A Study for “The Battle of Waterloo” (ca. 1815), 22.2 × 37.5 cm, oil on board, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Image courtesy of Bridgeman Art Library.
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 2. Conclusion of “A Song” transcribed in black ink from a section of the album transcribed in 1824. Red ink overwrite of unidentified poem dated 1827. Photograph by the author.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 21–68.
Published: 01 January 2004
... from one being for another” with a discussion of
tooth transplantation in eighteenth-century England, a choice that reminds
us that though we tend to think of the sale of kidneys on the black market
and the popularity of reality television shows such as ABC’s “Extreme
Makeover” as products...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 114–121.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Scott Black Duke University Press 2010 Review Essay
Is the Novel Modern?
Scott Black
University of Utah
Jenny Mander, ed. Remapping the Rise of the European Novel (Oxford: Voltaire...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 93–97.
Published: 01 January 2012
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 102–106.
Published: 01 January 2014
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 107–112.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Scott Black Paige Nicholas D. ., Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel . ( Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania , 2011 ). Pp. xiv + 285 . $59.95 Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Review Essay
Misrecognizing...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 136–149.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Scott Black Pavel Thomas G. . The Lives of the Novel: A History . ( Princeton : Princeton Univ. , 2013 ). Pp. xii + 346 . $35 Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Review Essay
The Novel’s High Road...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 76–98.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Andrew Black The anxiety of the eighteenth-century establishment church to the growing phenomenon of Methodism is chronicled in over nine hundred anti- Methodist texts published between 1738 and 1800. Anti-Methodist literature attempts to explain a dissident movement that challenged the supremacy...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 98–102.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Vincent Carretta Adams Catherine Pleck Elizabeth H. . Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England ( New York : Oxford Univ. , 2010 ). Pp. xi + 265. 10 ills . $21.95 paper Chater Kathleen . Untold Histories: Black People in England...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 106–110.
Published: 01 January 2009
...David Hill Radcliffe Scott Black. Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Pp. 193. $65 ISBN 1-4039-9905-8 Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay
Less Is More:
The Modernity...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 56–82.
Published: 01 April 2007
... novels by a British woman to feature
an interracial marriage, in this case between a rural Englishwoman and a
manumitted Jamaican slave.4 These three publications address interracial
marriage involving low-ranking blacks in Barbados, Suriname, and Brit-
ain respectively. Moreover, at a crucial...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 115–126.
Published: 01 September 2007
...). Pp. 300. $60. 40 ills. ISBN 0-8014-4344-x Virginia Mason Vaughan. Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800 . (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2005). Pp. 190. $75. 10 ills. ISBN 0-521-84584-x Duke University Press 2007 Review Essay
Gentility...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 48–50.
Published: 01 September 2010
... fiction might have exerted on the minds
of its original readers?
George Boulukos’s useful and thoroughgoing study of representations
of the grateful slave in eighteenth-century British and black Atlantic texts
addresses these and other questions, with varying degrees of directness...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 117–138.
Published: 01 September 2002
... attempted to
eject the Baymen, as they were called, from the Honduran coast, but the
Baymen took temporary refuge in the Black River settlement of the
Miskito, some hundred miles west of Cape Gracias a Dios. This settle-
ment became, in effect, a conduit...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (3): 94–102.
Published: 01 September 2001
... not be determined. Buffon and others held
that it was white, in Buffon’s case for two reasons. First, blacks could bear
white children (albinos), but not the other way around. Second, Buffon
argued, Adam had been created in the temperate zone, and other races
deviated from...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 92–100.
Published: 01 September 2012
... was
shameful, as was the French government’s failure to commemorate the bicen-
tennial of Haitian independence properly in 2004. But that state of affairs
seems to be changing. Not only is more scholarship emerging yearly on this
landmark event that saw the creation of the first black republic...
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