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Poaching on Crusoe's Island: Popular Reading and Chapbook Editions of Robinson Crusoe
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 18–38.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Andrew O'Malley In this essay, the author argues that chapbook editions of Robinson Crusoe should be viewed not simply as impoverished abridgments of Defoe's novel, but as striking examples of the popular “appropriation” of an elite text by plebeian readers. The ruthless editorial decisions...
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Clamoring for Liberty: Alehouse Noise and the Political Shoemaker
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 105–121.
Published: 01 April 2017
... such as the sedentary nature of their work. More recently, critical discussion has disclosed how this proclivity for political activity was reinforced by an aggressive masculine identity, productive of misogyny as well as sociability. Drawing on popular cultural sources, from ballads to chapbooks, this essay revises...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2020
... elegies, theater tickets, and chapbooks), meant that, unless these ephemera were preserved in bundles or as part of bound volumes, the chance that they disintegrated with frequent use was high. They could be read, or used to teach reading, but also the paper- based medium could be repurposed as wrapping...
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What’s New with Robinson Crusoe?
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 113–114.
Published: 01 January 2014
... and carefully parsed and
analysed?” (1). O’Malley attempts to set his scholarship apart by claiming that,
if one looks beyond the original text to derivatives such as chapbooks, theatri-
cal performances, or merchandise, Robinson Crusoe reveals changing attitudes
toward childhood and folk culture...
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“To Root the Old Woman Out of Our Minds”: Women Educationists and Plebeian Culture in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 48–73.
Published: 01 April 2006
... nineteenth- and twentieth-century folklorists’ fi eldwork, and, perhaps
somewhat more indirectly, from the evidence of chapbooks and broadside
ballads. High rates of literacy, and habits of reading aloud to those who
could not read, made this “other print tradition” an important part of the
narrative...
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Figures of Impropriety and the Joys of Female Community
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 126–139.
Published: 01 April 2013
... Bidulph, and
Griffith’sLady Barton).
3. Seduction stories in “street literature” — here, ballads in various formats
and prose narrative chapbooks.
4. “Melodramatic” fiction of the 1790s, including Inchbald’s Nature and
Art, Wollstonecraft’s Wrongs of Woman, Hays’s Victim...
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Piozzi and Wales
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 135–139.
Published: 01 January 2023
... Warnings: A Tale,” which first appeared in Anna Williams's Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (1766) and was “widely reprinted throughout the century in popular anthologies, miscellanies, chapbooks, and prints” (36). Franklin observes in his reading of the poem that “the fate of her [Piozzi's] baby, who had...
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Oral Vs. Literate Transmission in Poetry and Song: A Survey of the Irish Evidence
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 105–110.
Published: 01 April 2015
... are central to the argument about the devel-
opment of the song tradition in Ireland during the eighteenth century, but,
once again, we discover that the evidence is incomplete and difficult to inter-
pret. Few song sheets or chapbooks survive in Ireland in any quantity before
the end of the century...
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The Newest Eighteenth Century
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 92–109.
Published: 01 September 2007
... as
embedded within social and professional circles as well as indebted to book-
sellers for their opportunities.
If Griffi n moves us away from the solitary writer, Lance Bertelsen’s “Popu-
lar Entertainment and Instruction, Literary and Dramatic: Chapbooks, Advice
Books, Almanacs, Ballads, Farces...
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The Search for “It”
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 114–123.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Flanders and its material bundles of “devilish power,” for instance,
in line with religious pamphlets and chapbook tales that also feature aber-
rant material objects gaining agency — provides us with a good context for
understanding it-narratives (Blackwell, 25). Well-considered and vigorous...
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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
... that kept chandlers-shops and cheesemongers.” She was found guilty
and transported.
Between the two extremes of Dr. Johnson’s works and the chapbooks,
other titles ended up behind cheese counters. Archibald Hamilton, a very
well-known and successful printer of Falcon Court, Fleet Street, was tar...
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Ephemeral Spenser: Stothard’s Vignette Series of The Faerie Queene for The Royal Engagement Pocket Atlas
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 78–110.
Published: 01 April 2020
... to resist associations with the ephemeral. In fact, the boards of a binding, compared to the limp paper wrappers of a chapbook, signal anything but a transitory existence, a characteristic the OED includes in its definition of ephem- era. 1 Yet not all bound books are created equal, with the materiality...
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“There Is No Such Man as Isaack Bickerstaff”: Partridge, Pittis, and Jonathan Swift
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 83–101.
Published: 01 January 2011
... of almanacs in general, see Bernard Capp,
Astrology and the Popular Press: English Almanacs, 1500 – 1800 (London: Faber and
Faber, 1979), and R. C. Simmons, “ABCs: Almanacs, Ballads, Chapbooks, Popular
Piety, and Textbooks,” in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, ed. J. Barnard
and D. F...
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War and the Culture of Politeness: The Case of The Tatler and The Spectator
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2012
... in good conduct from violent stories: Bickerstaff
admires the accomplishments of his little godson, who studies “the Lives
and Adventures of Don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven
Champions.” The boy is not corrupted by chapbooks that delight in vio-
lence: by reading critically, he...
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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
... circulated in chapbook versions in the eighteenth century, some as short as 8 pages. 31. See Georgina Lock and David Worrall, Cross- Dressed Performance at the Theatrical Margins: Hannah Snell, the Manual Exercise, and the New Wells Spa Theater, 1750, Huntington Library Quarterly 77 (2014): 17 36. 32...
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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
... almanac, nor have
appropriate criteria for its classification as “diary-cum-almanac” been devised.
Cathy Lynn Preston and Michael J. Preston, eds., The Other Print Tradition: Essays
on Chapbooks, Broadsides, and Related Ephemera (New York: Garland, 1995), offer a
useful guide to printed...
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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
... in the author's collection. Anderson's contribution to Hurst's edition marked a new trend in the illustration of The Shipwreck : where stock images of ships circulated as part of a cheap print tradition that included illustrated chapbooks and continued to feature as part of lower-end pocket editions...
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“I Had Not the Honour to Be Born in England”: Armstrong, Wilkes, and The Muncher's and Guzler's Diary
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2025
..., Literary and Dramatic: Chapbooks, Advice Books, Almanacs, Ballads, Farces, Pantomimes, Prints, and Shows,” in The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660 – 1780 , ed. John Richetti (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2005), 61 – 86. 4. Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707 – 1837 (New...
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“Unlearned & ill-qualified Pokers into Prophecy”: Hester Lynch Piozzi and the Female Prophetic Tradition
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (2): 87–112.
Published: 01 April 2004
... in broadsheets, chapbooks, and almanacs but also in weighty
treatises: the radical publisher Joseph Johnson published over thirty books
of such. Cashing in on the market, collections of prophecies from the six-
teenth and seventeenth centuries were excerpted and republished anony-
Hester Lynch Piozzi...
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Displaying Difference: Curious Count Boruwlaski and the Staging of Class Identity
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (3): 78–106.
Published: 01 September 2006
... Victor E. Neuburg,
The Penny Histories: A Study of Chapbooks for Young Readers over Two Centuries
(London: Oxford Univ., 1968); Pat Rogers, Literature and Popular Culture in
Eighteenth-Century England (Sussex: Harvester, 1985); Peter Burke, Popular Culture
in Early Modern Europe (London: Temple...
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